Service 02
Business Development
and Companies Management
Strategy is only worth what gets executed. We work alongside leadership to design the growth plan, fix the operating model underneath it, and stay accountable to the numbers. Deepest in the GCC; available worldwide.
What You Get
A plan, an operating model and someone on the hook
- Business Strategy. Where to play and how to win, tested against the market evidence rather than against ambition alone.
- Growth Planning. Revenue architecture, channel design, pricing and the sequencing that makes the plan financeable.
- Operations Optimization. Process, cost-to-serve and automation — removing the friction between the strategy and the customer.
- Corporate Performance. A management dashboard leaders actually use, with owners and thresholds attached to every metric.
- Sustainable Development Solutions. Growth that survives the next cycle — governance, resource efficiency and long-horizon value.
Operating Rhythm
How the engagement runs
Diagnostic — weeks 1–3
Interviews, data room, unit economics and a written statement of the three constraints that actually bind growth.
Design — weeks 4–8
The growth plan and the operating model to carry it, costed, sequenced and agreed with the people who must run it.
Execute — ongoing
Monthly performance reviews against the dashboard, with the plan revised when the evidence says it should be.
Service Modules
What we actually build with you
Take the whole programme or a single module. Most engagements start with one and grow.
Growth strategy
Where to play and how to win, tested against market evidence rather than ambition. Includes the segments to walk away from — usually the harder half of the answer.
Market entry & structuring
Entry route, entity and location choice, licensing pathway, partner or distributor selection, and a realistic cost-and-timeline plan to first revenue.
Revenue architecture
Pricing, channel design, sales coverage and the commission model that makes people sell what you actually want sold.
Operating model redesign
Structure, decision rights, process and cost-to-serve — removing the friction between the strategy and the customer.
Performance management
A management dashboard leaders actually use: fewer metrics, each with an owner, a threshold and a defined action when it breaches.
Corporate governance
Board reporting, delegation of authority, and the reporting discipline that lets a founder-led business survive becoming a managed one.
Partnerships & JV support
Partner shortlisting, commercial term design, and the operating agreement details that decide whether a JV works two years in.
Turnaround & cost programmes
Cash and margin recovery: what to cut, in what order, and what must be protected to keep the business sellable.
Sustainable development
Governance, resource efficiency and long-horizon value — growth designed to survive the next cycle rather than flatter this one.
GCC Specialisation
Building a business in the Gulf
Company building in the GCC has its own mechanics. These are the ones that decide whether a plan survives contact with the region.
- Entity and location choice comes first. Free zone versus mainland, and which emirate or city, changes your licensing, your customer access and your cost base for years. We model the options side by side before anything is registered.
- The right partner beats the fastest partner. Distributor and JV selection is a diligence exercise, not an introduction — we screen on capability and incentive alignment, and design terms that hold when the relationship is tested.
- Public-sector procurement is its own sales motion. Pre-qualification, local content and tender cycles have to be resourced deliberately, or the pipeline never converts.
- Workforce planning is a strategy problem. Nationalisation targets, visa mechanics and a highly mobile labour market all belong in the operating model from day one.
- Family-group governance is the real succession question. Separating ownership from management, and putting reporting discipline in place before the handover, not during it.
- Working capital behaves differently. Payment cycles on large regional contracts can be long — the growth plan has to be financeable at those terms, not at the ones in the model.
We advise on commercial structure and hand you decision-ready options; formal legal and tax opinions come from licensed advisers, and we will tell you exactly when you need one. Outside the GCC the same modules apply, with local specialists brought in where we lack depth.
Accountability
What we measure ourselves on
Revenue quality
Not just growth — margin, concentration and repeatability of what the plan brings in.
Cost-to-serve
What it costs to deliver a unit of value, tracked before and after the redesign.
Cash conversion
Days from order to cash, because a growth plan that starves the business is not a plan.
Decision speed
How long a normal decision takes to get made — usually the clearest read on whether the operating model actually changed.
Principles
How we hold ourselves
Common Questions
Before you engage us
Do you advise, or do you implement?
Both, and we prefer both. Advice we are not accountable for tends to sit in a drawer. Where a client wants us hands-on, we take named actions on the plan alongside their team.
Can you help us set up in a GCC market from scratch?
Yes — entry route, entity and location options, licensing pathway, partner selection and the plan to first revenue. Formal legal and tax filings go through licensed advisers; we run the commercial side and coordinate them.
We are a family business planning a handover. Is that in scope?
Yes. Separating ownership from management, installing board-level reporting and getting the operating model ready before the transition is one of the most common reasons clients come to us.
Do you work outside the GCC?
Yes. The modules are the same anywhere; where we lack local depth we say so and bring in specialists rather than pretending.
What does a first engagement look like?
A three-week diagnostic ending in a written statement of the three constraints that actually bind your growth — and what each would cost to remove. Both sides can judge the fit on real work before committing further.
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