When conventional, incremental change isn’t enough

We accelerate lasting bottom-line results from your transformational performance improvement initiatives.

A&M’s restructuring and turnaround heritage brings data driven, action-oriented leadership to challenging transformations. Our professionals have a proven track record in leading businesses through tough, complex initiatives.

A&M pairs deep operational, industry and functional expertise to help management teams and boards evaluate their business with fresh perspectives. We help clients challenge current business models and cost structures and enable them to make the right decisions to transform the business.

Clients call us when:

• A new CEO or CFO wants to assess the needs of the organization using a “clean sheet” approach to quickly make a positive impact.
• Circumstances require a greater focus on cash and rapid non-essential cost cutting.
• They must rapidly reset the entire business model to survive a crisis and emerge stronger.
• Performance has faltered and they need a fresh point-of-view to identify potential improvement and value creation initiatives.
• They want an independent advisor who tells them the realities that they need to hear, not just what they want to hear.
• They need to move beyond a “transformation plan” to drive real, transformative change and value creation.
• Previous initiatives by the company fall short of realizing necessary change.
• CEOs want to implement necessary changes faster than doing it themselves and with less risk.

Our services include:

• Rapid Results: Provide a rapid and robust assessment and prioritized improvement plan for top line growth, SG&A spend reduction, gross margin improvement, supply chain optimization and productivity enhancement including evaluating operating model on fit-for-purpose, and stress testing in-flight initiatives for alignment.
• Implementation Planning: Collaboratively develop implementation plans that are practical but aggressive, identifying key steps, resources required and timing.
• Results Delivery: Build and execute the transformation roadmap, install rigorous governance processes to cement accountability, monitor progress, mitigate risk, and course correct as necessary. Incorporate roadmap execution into long range financial plans, annual budgets, and all ongoing operations and reporting.
• Transformation Program Management: Establish standardized tools and approaches to be used within and across all of the initiative teams (e.g., protocols, processes, tool sets, and decision governance). Institute issue escalation process to quickly resolve complex decisions.