Business by design.

Daring + Kind helps you formulate and achieve your overall vision, develop strategies and tactics to implement that vision, and maximize the value of your enterprise. Our experienced advisers align with your team to help prepare, review, and assess your business plan, develop your strategic objectives, identify strategic trade-offs, design and structure your business, organization, and culture, identify growth opportunities, optimize your operational value, and guide your organization through all stages of development and operations. We help you reduce costs, drive growth, improve innovation and agility, and strengthen both short-term and long-term performance and organizational health. We work with you to develop made-to-measure business solutions that are designed to deliver superior performance and sustained results.

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.
— Lee Bolman

To thrive in today’s fast-paced global markets in which rapid and accelerating developments in technology, customer preferences, and employee expectations continually transform the commercial landscape, companies require the agility and vision to constantly transform how they operate. We design and deliver winning transformation strategies and implementation plans. Our team works with you to identify business-model changes required to identify, unlock, and optimize value and create and sustain long-term enterprise-wide agility, enabling your organization to accelerate execution, improve responsiveness and adaptation to customer preferences, increase productivity, engage and empower employees, and deliver shareholder returns. We work closely with you to identify the decisive moves required to position your organization to maximize sustainable returns, long-term performance, and shareholder ROI and deliver results that are objectively measurable and repeatable.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
— Benjamin Franklin

Our Methodology

Assess + Design. First, we audit and assess the strengths and weaknesses of your organization to define or reconnect you with your strategic position, identify strategic trade-offs, and render your optimal business structure, highlighting areas where your organization faces challenges and defining criteria to guide your business design process.

Prioritize + Connect. During the design process, we focus on determining and defining your strategic priorities, aligning them with your strategic position, and linking them to critical improvements in your operational effectiveness and market imperatives.

Culture + Value. We help you develop a disciplined, entrepreneurial culture that focuses executive management and employee attention on connecting operations to strategic vision, coordinating key functions, driving strategic initiatives, and creating sustainable value.

Measurement + Accountability. We develop processes to measure the performance of your organization effectiveness and decisioning and accountability standards and frameworks to identify unit-specific, and cross-unit responsibilities and accountabilities.

Collaborate + Understand. We develop methodologies for achieving enterprise-wide collaboration designed to unleash capabilities and maximize value and provide a profound understanding of your organization’s potential.

Simplify + Clarify. We focus on removing costly and inefficient areas of organizational and operational complexity and improving clarity, including with respect to individual and group roles, responsibilities, and processes.

 

Business by Design

  • Enterprise-wide business strategies to chart a course for short-term and long-term success

  • Strategies for where, when, and how to compete and win markets

  • Strategic frameworks to foster better decisioning, proactive planning, and optimal responses

  • Transformation strategies to pivot your business during times of change and rapid growth

  • Business plan review and assessment

  • Business plan development, preparation, and re-design

Structure By Design

  • Domestic and cross-border structures and organizations to optimize your business model

  • Adaptive share structures and shareholder arrangements to reflect stakeholder goals

Growth By Design

  • Innovation strategies to unlock growth potentials and identify growth opportunities

  • Culture designs and re-designs to foster and optimize growth

  • Transaction strategies to focus your team on the right deals

  • M&A support to deliver deals that optimize value

  • Divestiture support to execute the right business separations at the right times

  • Joint venture and project support to develop partnerships and projects that work for all partners

Management By Design

  • Develop C-suite excellence to help executives succeed

  • Board support and advisory services to maximize effective corporate direction

  • Regulatory support to develop governance excellence and communicate with stakeholders

  • Finance support to develop finance acumen and maximize business intelligence