Prior industry experience
A portfolio strategy across core and growth businesses
An earlier corporate portfolio review at a leading telecommunications carrier connected market attractiveness, business performance and ownership advantage with investment priorities.
THE CASE
The decision in context.
The context
A large telecommunications group needed to consider how its mix of mature businesses and emerging growth areas could support its longer-term ambitions. The challenge was to compare very different activities without allowing a single financial measure to determine every decision.
The contribution
Working in industry at a leading telecommunications carrier, members of the team helped lead and contribute to a review of the group’s domestic and international portfolio. The work assessed market prospects alongside relative business performance, risk and the advantages the parent could bring to each business. It translated these perspectives into differentiated strategic roles, from preserving and improving established businesses to investing in growth or examining a change of ownership. The review also identified the practical questions each choice raised for management.
What the work provided
A clearer basis for the next decision
The review gave executives a common basis for discussing where to focus resources, what to improve and which portfolio questions required further investigation. It also set out how portfolio priorities could inform planning and performance review over time.
This example draws on earlier professional experience of our consultants.
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