Smarter operations. Stronger performance.

Leading companies are rethinking operations from the ground up and redesigning supply chains for resilience, agility, and control. By simplifying, digitizing, and building adaptable systems, they’re shaping smarter operations—and unlocking stronger, lasting performance. 

For executives, transformation is an operational imperative

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Focusing on integrated planning to enhance resiliency

Key insights
Supply Chain
In an Era of Tariffs and Turbulence, Four Moves That Matter
Understand your exposure. Understand your competitors’ exposure. Adjust your pricing and supply chains accordingly. Repeat as necessary.
Brief
Support Functions
The New Case for Zero-Based Cost Management
A clean-sheet approach helps leaders produce savings that stick—even in turbulent times.
Brief
Performance Improvement
Beyond Tariffs: The Supply Chain Reinvention Imperative
Tariffs are accelerating businesses’ operations overhaul. Winning in today’s disrupted world demands bold trade-offs and strategic transformation.
Brief
Performance Improvement
Nearshoring: Overcoming the Obstacles
Most companies want to bring production closer to home, but rerouting supply chains is complicated.
Brief
Sales and Marketing
Tariffs: Three Keys to Developing a Winning Pricing Strategy
Pricing is one of the quickest-acting tools available to executives, making it critical to any tariff response plan.
Article
Transformation
To Transform Performance, Transform Productivity
Sustained performance improvement requires more than just blunt cost cutting.
Brief

Analyst Recognition

Analyst Recognition

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We have been recognized by IDC MarketScape as a leader in worldwide operations improvement consulting services.

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Marco D'Avino Partner Rome

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