Services
Senior leadership from assessment to delivery
Keypoint takes on engagements where owners, boards or management teams need senior capacity for a defined period. Here we describe our three areas of work and how we remain accountable from initial assessment through implementation.
Each engagement starts with the client’s situation and may include assessing the current position, leading the work, implementing measures and handing over to the organisation.
Scope, mandate, objectives and timing are agreed before work begins. The three areas often overlap.
Interim management and executive support
Typical client situations
- A senior position is vacant, the current role-holder is overstretched, or the organisation is undergoing restructuring.
- The owner has stepped back from day-to-day operations and lacks an operational counterpart.
- The board needs someone who can both assess the situation and act within the business.
- A critical project lacks an experienced engagement lead with the mandate and time to drive it.
What Keypoint can do
- Step into, or work alongside, the management team for an agreed period.
- Reinforce a management team during a period of change.
- Take responsibility for a defined project with clear objectives.
- Support owners, boards and CEOs on governance, prioritisation and performance monitoring.
- Report regularly to owners or the board and hand over to the permanent organisation.
Relevant experience. Torbjörn has held senior line-management roles as CEO, COO and CFO and has experience of executive management and board work. The roles we can take on, and when, are assessed case by case.
Michael has served as CEO and as a board member, worked in executive management teams, and held operational leadership roles in procurement, logistics, production and departmental management.
These engagements cover senior leadership roles, executive support and defined projects with a clear mandate.
Transactions and due diligence
Typical client situations
- A company is being acquired and you need to understand the business behind the numbers.
- A business is being sold and needs to be prepared for the process.
- You have material from advisers but lack an operational assessment of what implementation will require.
What Keypoint can do
- Strategic, operational, commercial, organisational, financial, legal and technical due diligence.
- Audits and valuation opinions through qualified specialists in our network.
- Investigations ahead of an acquisition or sale.
- Assessment of the organisation, operations and execution risk.
- Business development focused on what the transaction will require to succeed after completion.
- Support with the acquisition and sale of companies, working alongside owners, boards or management teams.
- Support with implementation once the decision has been made.
Assessments are carried out by people who have held responsibility for operations, management and performance monitoring themselves. We set out what we see, what it means in practice and what successful implementation will require.
Keypoint can take overall responsibility for strategic, operational, commercial, organisational, financial, legal and technical due diligence, as well as audit and valuation opinions. The engagement is led by Keypoint and delivered using our own expertise and, where required, qualified specialists from our network.
Change, profitability and delivery
Typical client situations
- Costs are rising faster than revenue.
- Procurement, logistics or production is not performing as it should.
- A service organisation needs to be developed or restructured.
- A change programme has started but is losing momentum.
- A business, unit or function needs to be restructured, adapted or wound down.
What Keypoint can do
- Cost reduction and efficiency improvement in procurement, logistics and production.
- Development of service organisations.
- Operational reviews that provide a clear picture of the current situation.
- Business development, organisational design and implementation.
- Practical implementation together with your organisation.
- Independent outside-in assessment of the company’s position, efficiency and future opportunities.
We also carry out independent outside-in assessments of the company’s position, efficiency and future opportunities. The work shows whether the right things are being done, where improvement potential exists and what is required to achieve the objectives. The findings can be consolidated into a comprehensive business plan with clear priorities, objectives and an implementation roadmap.
Restructuring, closures and workforce changes
When a business, unit or function needs to be restructured or closed, clear decisions, careful planning and implementation that considers both the business and the people affected are required.
Keypoint can lead and coordinate work involving, for example:
- closure of businesses, units or functions;
- reorganisation and staffing adjustments;
- workforce reductions;
- relocation or merger of operations;
- planning of responsibilities, communication and implementation;
- monitoring and handover to the remaining organisation.
Keypoint works on behalf of owners, boards or management teams and can coordinate management, finance, operations, HR and external specialists.
Keypoint can take overall responsibility for an engagement involving restructuring, closure and workforce reduction, including employment-law assessments, supporting documentation for negotiations, communication and coordination of formal processes. The work is led by Keypoint and delivered using our own expertise and, where required, employment-law specialists from our network. The client retains formal responsibility as the employer.
The objective is a clear, respectful and controlled implementation that also safeguards the continued operation of the business.
How we work in these engagements
- Assess the current situation based on how the business actually operates, not only on reports.
- Identify priorities and what they require in terms of time, resources and decisions.
- Lead a defined change programme together with your organisation.
- Monitor implementation throughout the agreed engagement period.
Potential is assessed against the business’s actual circumstances and translated into clear engagement objectives and measures for monitoring progress.
How we work and take responsibility
The partner who scopes the engagement leads the work and remains your point of contact. For engagements that are larger in scale or duration, or require specific specialist expertise, Keypoint adds selected partners and specialists from its network. Keypoint retains leadership of the engagement, and the client has one clearly accountable point of contact. Mandate, objectives, scope, timing, budget and handover are agreed before work begins. The agreed budget is not exceeded without the client’s approval.
Next step
Describe the situation
A few lines about the situation are enough. The person whose experience best matches your needs will contact you personally by phone or email.