Strategic Business Analysis
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Dowling Consulting brings a wealth of experience, an open style of engagement and innovative yet practical approaches to solving strategic management issues that deliver clear and actionable plans and policies for future growth and positioning.
Whether we are engaged as enterprise strategists, organisational architects, requirements analysts, developers of complex cross-divisional business cases, or as general advisors to strategic decision makers, Dowling will bring a dynamic and competitive edge to our clients future business direction.
Revenue growth
Strategic objectives often mandate revenue growth; but at what cost is this growth being attained? Sustainable revenue growth requires balanced initiatives to deliver sustainable results on share prices. Spikes and troughs don’t deliver the confidence investors need.
Dowling Consulting delivers analytical and informative responses to client situations, and has the depth and experience to act on the recommendations that we make. Our clients often find that they have a range of options once our initials assessments are presented.
Profitability analysis
Knowing where a business really makes a profit or whether a new initiative will make the returns it is promising is not as simple as it seems.
We leverage our industry experience through the use of modeling tools in order to build a true and often revealing picture of where a business’ strengths and weaknesses are. Our ability to understand the intricacies of operation across the entire organisation allows us to act quickly and unimpeded. It gives us the ability to show our clients how it really is.
Business cases
By providing new insights into the ideas that our clients have for their organisation, our business cases deliver first class quantification of initiatives and ensure that the message is received by stakeholders in the most persuasive light, creating senior management and executive support that enables the project sponsor to deliver the results.
Dowling Consulting have delivered countless high value business cases (> AU$100m) that have received approval across a number of industries and business disciplines, from national retail initiatives, industrial mergers and acquisitions, resource sector supply chain strategies, through to enterprise-wide ERP solutions and online trading strategies.
Balanced scorecard
Delivering higher quality management information through the addition of non-financial metrics to the traditional financial performance measures, an organisation can build a more balanced view of its performance.
Dowling delivers true results in the balanced scorecard approach, by introducing tailored metrics that allow our clients to align business activities to the strategic objectives of the organisation, providing better communications driven by better information, and giving the management of the organisation clear indicators of performance against business strategy.
Online Trading
Dowling Consulting helps large organisations and government departments measure and improve the business benefits they obtain by leveraging the capabilities of Internet type technologies to do business with customers, suppliers and business partners.
We have assisted our clients in evaluating the success of existing online initiatives and helped them conceptualise and articulate the case for action for new online initiatives.
Dowling Consulting provides specialist strategy, business process and organisational change advice to integrate efforts in the online space with existing business. Our firm also has expertise in the architecture, selection and evaluation of business process standards and technology solutions that enable online trading in the business to business domain.
Channel Management
Understanding the implications of business decisions on the careful balance that often exists in the channel offerings of the modern organisation requires broad business knowledge combined with specialist analytical skills in order to derive insight and formulate responses to issues.
Dowling helps channel managers deliver results through a range of responses, from organisational design through to skills development, channel mix strategies, and targeted market responses.
