Technology

Accelerating Strategy Execution to Unlock Profitability

A global IT services provider faced stagnating growth, pressured bottom-line and struggled to translate strategic ambition post-divestment into measurable results. We helped sharpen its commercial focus, aligned governance, and boosted delivery discipline. Within four months, the company accelerated a new strategic segment by securing 20 new customers and delivered 3x on their bottom-line at end year.

Key outcomes

Three outcomes that defined the transformation

Outcome 1

Landed 20 new customers in four months in a newly prioritised strategic segment 

Outcome 2

Delivered 3x bottom-line performance by year end through cost and project delivery optimisation 

Outcome 3

Aligned the commercial delivery model across offerings and project types, supported by a KPI cockpit 

The challenge

The IT services market was becoming increasingly competitive, with growing pricing pressure and rising demand for specialised, high-value expertise. Enterprise clients expected greater differentiation and measurable business impact from their technology partners. Despite its strong capabilities, our client had experienced stagnating growth and recognised that its existing strategy would not deliver the desired results. The business needed greater commercial focus, clearer governance and stronger execution to better align delivery capacity and expertise with changing market demand.

Following the divestment of a significant part of the business, the organisation repositioned itself from an IT infrastructure provider to a pure consultancy. While the strategic direction was clear, translating it into measurable commercial results proved more challenging. Improving performance required sharper customer segment prioritisation, stronger delivery governance and better management of pricing, costs and capacity. The transformation was further complicated by organisational change fatigue and limited visibility into commercial performance following the divestment and ERP platform changes.

The approach

Working closely with the leadership team, we assessed commercial performance, governance and execution readiness.

Together, we refined strategic priorities, identified the highest-value commercial opportunities and established the conditions required for successful execution. We redesigned key elements of the commercial operating model, introduced clearer ownership of margins, developed a measurable execution roadmap and implemented a KPI cockpit to give leadership better visibility into commercial performance.

The impact

The transformation delivered measurable results within months.

The business secured 20 new customers in a newly prioritised strategic segment, creating immediate commercial momentum. Better management of pricing, capacity, project delivery and costs contributed to a threefold improvement in bottom-line performance by year end.

Beyond the financial impact, the organisation strengthened leadership alignment, improved decision-making and established greater execution discipline across the business. With a more focused commercial model and improved performance visibility, the company was better positioned to deliver on its long-term strategic ambitions.

The strategy process provided us with several epiphanies about new areas for us to grow in and what it takes to transform into a true consultancy. The results and implementation speak for themselves. We’ve materially lifted all the key metrics in our KPI cockpit and have landed many new Tier 2 customers that are showing a lot of promise.

Head of Commercial Excellence & Strategy Owner

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Jonathan co-leads the Strategy & Transaction practice. With a long background in working with, and transforming complex B2B organizations across portfolio, digital and corporate Jonathan deploys his strategy knowhow with his hands-on functional expertise.

Jonathan Bellinger