The EY-Parthenon Advanced Manufacturing and Mobility Strategy Consulting teams help clients develop and implement strategies so they can build long-term sustainable growth.

What the EY-Parthenon Advanced Manufacturing and Mobility Strategy Consulting teams can do for you

Geopolitical shifts and increasing uncertainty in the global operating environment, combined with the complexity of energy transition, digital disruption and sector convergence, are impacting advanced manufacturing and mobility companies significantly. EY-Parthenon teams help businesses develop agile strategies in response to these challenges, so they are better prepared for potential divergent futures.

We have identified five key focus areas in this sector where right strategy development can be a positive differentiator between the present and the future.

Digital transformation

Advanced manufacturing

Rapid evolution of technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), the metaverse and SaaS-based industry cloud platforms have the potential to trigger significant disruption and help accelerate the next phase of digital transformation in manufacturing.

Mobility

Connected/autonomous vehicles continue driving investment from the technology sector, increasing Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) software spending, and fostering new ecosystems. These factors have forced OEMs to focus on reimagining sales models, retail structure, and processes to create seamless, omni-channel customer journeys and capture maximum vehicle lifetime value potential.

Innovative business models

Advanced manufacturing

Demand for connected products and ecosystem platforms are creating attractive new value pools, allowing manufacturers to pursue innovative business models, new revenue streams, and deliver unique customer experiences.

Mobility

Shifts to service-centric business models are enlarging the value pool of mobility companies, requiring innovation in strategy, operations and dealer relationship.

Product and supply chain transformation

Advanced manufacturing

Digitally interconnected networks are achieving greater supply chain transparency and demand forecasting ability, helping enable manufacturers to decouple supply chains from high-risk regions and to bring production facilities closer to customers.

Mobility

Surging data volume creates opportunities to design new products or services, providing actionable insights to improve efficiency, maintain the value of connected assets, and support a seamless logistics network.

Circular economy and sustainability

Advanced manufacturing

Sustainability is increasingly becoming a core part of manufacturers’ business strategies and driving growth, with a focus on decarbonization/energy transition, waste reduction, and circular development processes that improve product lifecycles.

Mobility

Mobility companies are undergoing a transformative shift in value chains, investments, and business models through sustainability lens, with an increasing focus in decarbonization, circularity, materials and fuels, net-zero logistics, and supply chain updates.

Employee centricity

Advanced manufacturing

Manufacturers face labor shortages as experienced workers retire and younger workers favor other sectors.

Mobility

Digitalization and EV transition are driving OEMs to upskill their workers in software, cyber, and data science.

EY-Parthenon teams’ mission is to transform the future for advanced manufacturing and mobility companies by developing innovative and sustainable outcomes. We help deliver on this mission by leveraging expertise drawn from our Advanced Manufacturing and Mobility Ecosystem, Future Mobility, Advanced Manufacturing Realized, Advanced Manufacturing and Mobility Sustainability. We can help to:

• Provide digital expertise to help maximize the benefit of new technologies in transforming commercial and operational models
• Assist in the development of diversified business models to help improve the company’s performance and insulate against economic and geopolitical disruptions
• Support a decarbonization strategy, waste reduction and circular development processes through better inventory management and production planning
• Support the energy transition effort by reducing reliance on fossil fuels through energy conservation, renewable investments, alternative fuels and supply chain reorganization
• Develop employee-centric models by addressing labor gaps, upskilling and making factory jobs safer and efficient

EY-Parthenon strategy consulting teams help advanced manufacturing and mobility clients solve their most challenging problems for a better and more sustainable future.

The EY-Parthenon consumer products and retail strategy consulting professionals help clients make the right corporate and growth strategy choices for long-term success. Business model reinvention, digital transformation, go-to-market strategy, M&A strategies, turn-arounds, and restructuring plans are some of the ways we help unlock a company’s full potential.

What EY-Parthenon consumer strategy consulting team can do for you

These are extraordinary times to be a consumer-facing company. As people change how and where they shop, and what they buy, retailers, consumer products, food and agribusiness companies must also swiftly pivot. While advances in technology, data capabilities and AI are accelerating this revolution, agility is the key to controlling it. Flexibility, ingenuity, and rapid response are the new hallmarks of success for consumer products and retail.

Bold action is required. Product, portfolio and customer experience must be rethought. To deliver excellence, your operating model and supply chain also need to be carefully re-examined. And all should be done in the context of sustainability and transparency. To be in full control, leaders must help create the future, not just respond to it.

EY-Parthenon consumer and retail strategy consulting professionals can aid your business transformation as you unlock the full potential of your company. Whether you are seeking business model reinvention, a digital transformation or a re-defined go-to-market strategy, we can work with you to help make the right corporate and growth strategy choices. Whether that involves building or buying your growth, we’ll help you determine the optimal M&A strategies and integration plans to achieve sustained success. We also offer a wide-ranging assistance with turnarounds and/or restructuring strategies from rapid performance improvement to contingency planning.

Whatever the business issue, EY-Parthenon consumer strategic insights — always bespoke — are based on deep industry knowledge, years of practical experience with state-of-the-art processes and fact-based projections about your industry’s future. Let EY-Parthenon teams help you sustain your company today while you transform it for tomorrow.

The EY-Parthenon strategy consulting teams help education leaders anticipate the future and develop strategies that create, preserve, and recover value for long-term success.

What the EY-Parthenon education strategy consulting team can do for you

The EY-Parthenon education consulting strategists are helping clients negotiate a sea change occurring across the education sector: new technologies and the global pandemic are influencing how and where students are taught; globalization is driving the need for new and different skill sets; shifting demographics are compelling new collaboration initiatives. A sustainable world is the new imperative, making quality education a major priority for all.

EY-Parthenon strategy consulting professionals, with broad experience and deep knowledge across the sector, are helping education leaders overcome these new challenges with bespoke, all-encompassing growth strategy plans and implementation support. They find solutions to specific issues using our toolkit of primary and secondary research, stakeholder engagement, and quantitative analysis.

We have dedicated consultants in all the following five segments of the education sector:   

Government and Foundations growth strategy

The covid-19 pandemic quickly revealed the huge inequities in our educational system and pointed to specific societal needs that now can no longer be ignored. Many federal and state organizations and foundations based in the educational sector are now evolving short and long-term strategies to reform our educational system. Known as a leading strategy organization in this space, EY-Parthenon helps institutions develop an overall growth strategy with 1) detailed execution plans to combat these issues; and 2) hands-on support to facilitate success.

Pre-K-12 systems and schools

EY-Parthenon teams offer Pre-K-12 institutions superior end-to-end consulting services from market needs assessment and strategic planning to student or school performance analytics, financial advisory, operational improvement, and organizational redesign. Our clients include education delivery providers, including early childhood and PK-12 systems, school networks, and ministries of education, as well as leading foundations, non-profits, intermediaries, and membership associations involved in K-12 education. Recently, our work has helped states and districts align talent and budget against key strategic initiatives related to learning acceleration, teacher supports, and system-level change. We also support specific needs related to grants management, cybersecurity, technology systems and networking, building portfolios, compensation schedules, and public health programs (e.g., vaccine initiatives).

Higher education institutions

EY-Parthenon teams help higher education institutions transform and thrive in practical and sustainable ways. Some of our many services include identifying opportunities for differentiation, optimizing the education delivery and service model, developing efficient and sustainable organizational structures and managing transformative processes through partnerships or collaborations. The EY-Parthenon goal is to bring analysis and insight to higher education leaders to empower them to achieve the full potential of their institution.

Content service providers and technology

EY-Parthenon teams help organizations carefully determine their unique growth path. Consulting teams provide knowledge and support throughout a process that might include organic or inorganic growth such as acquisitions, partnerships, joint ventures, or even divestments. Whatever the growth path, we offer practical, hands-on help during the transition process to help ease the transformation.

Global investors

EY-Parthenon clients include venture capital, private equity, and corporations. The education teams identify new education investment opportunities to help produce both short and long-term value in current investments. From the pre-contract stage through the eventual integration (or separation due to divestiture), EY-Parthenon education strategy consulting teams both help guide decision-making and provide execution assistance throughout.

In short, EY-Parthenon’s leading experience can help bring both short and long-term value to your organization. EY-Parthenon teams are dedicated to helping turn today’s students into tomorrow’s leaders.

EY-Parthenon energy and resources strategy consulting teams help energy companies maximize their value today while successfully reshaping their businesses to meet tomorrow’s energy needs. EY-Parthenon energy strategists apply the latest technology, best business practices, state-of-the-art digitization, M&A expertise and more to help your business transform and thrive.

What EY-Parthenon energy and resources strategy consulting teams can do for you

EY-Parthenon energy and resources strategy consulting teams are dedicated to helping today’s energy companies maximize value as the world transitions from yesterday’s carbon-rich business model to a sustainable energy future. With all the consumer demands, new technologies and geopolitical unrest, company leaders are exploring where the risks and new opportunities are. Many are asking what the best strategy is to create a winning position in their market successfully. EY-Parthenon energy strategists can help find these answers, and then help realize them.

The current energy transition is one of worldwide urgency, opportunity and challenge. The increasing penetration of renewable energy into the energy supply mix, the onset of electrification and improvements in energy storage, are all key drivers of the energy transition. Regulation and commitment to decarbonization is an increasing government priority, but the energy transition will continue to increase in importance as investors prioritize environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.

Vast opportunities are abound. However, challenges must be met to achieve gains. Policymakers, investors and companies are facing tough decisions as they try to meet the demand for reliable and affordable energy while keeping sight of climate goals. Geopolitical uncertainty is adding a layer of complexity, lifting energy security (e.g. energy supply) to the top of the business agenda. New technology must be developed to address hard-to-electrify areas and/or offset emissions. Consumers are becoming more demanding with changing needs and higher expectations. Electric vehicle adoption will create demand for new fuel opportunities, a replacement market, second-life batteries and more. Integrating renewables will require digitization of the networks at the lowest possible price point.

So how do mining and metals, oil and gas, and power and utility companies reshape their businesses for the future, while also dealing with temporary and/or long-term stressors such as new technology requirements, increasing digitization needs, geopolitics and the need for short-term gains today? EY-Parthenon energy strategists are here to help.

EY-Parthenon energy and resources strategy consulting teams have deep expertise in new energy sources, regulatory environments and innovative technologies including state-of-the-art digitization processes. We combine this with a deep understanding of financing strategies and solid investment and capital deployment opportunities to help you optimize M&A portfolio strategies and subsequent integration plans. Our focus includes:

Mining and metals

We help increase business value and agility (less time, cost, disruption) through state-of-the-art technology use, e.g., increasing operational productivity based on better data collection methods, generating cash through scenario modeling, providing systems access anytime and anywhere, optimizing value from existing technology and more. EY-Parthenon energy strategy goal is to help you better meet existing metal demand while quickly ramping up production to help fill the exponential need for more minerals and metals caused by the clean energy transition.

Oil and gas

Pricing volatility, changing regulations and cost of capital demand operational efficiency and technological development. EY-Parthenon energy strategy teams apply the latest technology to help transform companies into digitally enabled, process-focused, high-return businesses. We help you balance investments as your business becomes increasingly complex and diversified.

Power and Utilities

The shift to renewable energy and distributed generation is presenting a huge challenge to this sector: all networks must be digitized fast and at the lowest possible cost. Other issues impacting this business include aging infrastructures, cybersecurity threats, and urgent repair timelines. EY-Parthenon power and utility strategists specialize in implementing the industry’s best practices to aid margin improvement. In addition, our knowledge and experience in the M&A sector activity can provide a key advantage for deal-making and post-deal integration.

Bottom line, EY-Parthenon energy and resources strategy consulting teams provide strategic guidance on energy transition based on the latest data, broad knowledge and deep sector experience. Our goal is to help you develop and accelerate bespoke business solutions. Solutions that reimagine your ecosystems so you can develop a financially compelling future-led energy strategy that can be implemented across the whole enterprise. EY-Parthenon energy strategists help maximize opportunities today so you can deliver long-term value tomorrow.

Innovation is key to solving the tough challenges facing the financial services market today. Consolidation, shifting customer dynamics, sustainability needs and new digital capabilities are just some of the areas that demand attention now. EY-Parthenon financial services strategy consulting teams provide personal, actionable and transformative plans to help drive value-packed solutions.

What EY-Parthenon financial services strategy consulting teams can do for you

As the financial services industry transforms, EY-Parthenon financial service strategists see a unique opportunity to reset organizations for future success.

With global megatrends driving the changes, from climate change, the rise of Gen Z and tech innovation, we help design and deliver transformation strategies that work in the real world.

EY-Parthenon financial services strategy teams help financial services clients answer some of their toughest questions:

• How do I pivot my business models through consolidation/direct models?
• How do I adopt a digital asset strategy that provides the best chance to compete in the market?
• How can I scale my (digital) business?
• How can I expand my ecosystem?
• How can I identify and manage strategic partnerships?
• How can I align my ESG and business strategies to create long-term value?

With an eye toward competitive advantage, we support and unlock new value for clients through rigorous analysis, strategic advice and thorough implementation.

Our breadth of expertise and worldwide reach positions us to address key themes across the financial services industry, including long-term value creation, digital asset strategies, embedded finance, ecosystem-based models and sector convergence. As each sector has its unique challenges, EY-Parthenon financial services strategy teams have experienced professionals with specific expertise in:

Banking and capital markets

This sector is undergoing a transformation — consolidation, the entrance of new, unregulated competitors, the influence of digitization and fintech on the lending market, cryptocurrencies, blockchain and the increased importance of sustainable finance.

Armed with deep market knowledge, future intelligence and proprietary tools, we help clients identify, select and onboard new partners, develop new digital assets, improve customer interaction and satisfaction, help in delivering value-added services for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), provide data-focused sales initiatives and find innovative ways to make sustainability a doable company priority. We even have developed a diagnostic assessment tool specifically for environment, sustainability and governance (ESG).

Wealth and asset management

“Change” is the key word in this sector as well. Consolidation of companies to gain market share and reach more high-net-worth individuals is on the rise. New product types (e.g., digital assets, ESG) are becoming increasingly popular with clients especially as sustainability grows in importance. Alternative asset managers, who experience minimal government oversight on their unique value propositions (e.g., cryptocurrency investments), are also disrupting traditional firms.

EY-Parthenon strategists advise clients on all of these changes. We help clients add value through potential partnership identification, deal-making and onboarding. We work with traditional banks and capital market players to develop new product investment strategies. We help improve customer service through new operations innovations.

Insurance

Currently enjoying a windfall as a result of the pandemic, insurers must now reconfigure their products due to trends such as ESG. As regulations change, less profitable annuity assets are being divested. Convergence between sub-sectors is occurring as insurance moves into the asset management space.

EY-Parthenon’s quarterly M&A market update is just one example of our deep sector knowledge. We advise our clients on potential strategic partnerships as well as smart divestitures. We also help clients rethink insurance business models as new priorities (e.g., environment and sustainability) become increasingly important and underwriting concerns change.

EY-Parthenon financial service strategists are here to help. We will work with you to develop and implement a custom strategy for your financial services organization. Whether it’s creating an in-house venture capital arm, shifting your business model or partnering with others for mutual benefit, EY-Parthenon strategists will assist you through the entire process.

Change is an opportunity for growth. EY-Parthenon financial services strategy consulting teams can help your company envision a better future and help make it a reality.

EY-Parthenon government and public sector strategy consulting professionals help leaders make better decisions about the economy, public services, financing and budgeting, investing in R&D and technology, and environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. EY-Parthenon’s strategic guidance is based on deep issue knowledge, broad experience, and analytical tools that enable success.

What the EY-Parthenon government and public sector (GPS) strategy consulting teams can do for you

Governments worldwide, including national, state and local entities and other public sector organizations, are faced with major transformation. Recent shocks — such as the COVID-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine and the consequences of climate change — are challenging how they organize and manage their economies and communities. Simultaneously, new technology is providing innovative ways to improve health and social and economic wellbeing for people everywhere. All these factors are key reasons why the future of government is likely to be very different.

How do national, state and local governments begin to sort through divergent needs, set priorities and determine the course of action? EY-Parthenon government and public sector (GPS) strategy consulting can help facilitate this transition. We have deep knowledge and broad experience working with national, state and local governments, and education institutions, on strategic and organizational issues. Our dedicated teams use emerging technological tools and digital capabilities to solve challenges.

During the pandemic, our public sector consulting group helped governments quickly solve previously unseen challenges, from pandemic vaccine distribution to supply chain bottlenecks. New public-private partnerships formed, and new technology was implemented on a massive scale and at a rapid pace. This forward momentum demonstrates how the many challenges ahead can be met.

Five strategic areas for focus

EY-Parthenon government and public sector strategy consulting advisors are focused on the future of government and five strategic areas that need strong and immediate attention.

Economy

Governments face challenges ahead. They must promote economic growth, including the support of households and businesses struggling with rising costs, without fuelling further inflation. If real economic recovery is to happen and be maintained, governments need to support investment in R&D and job training, have a progressive tax strategy and develop a more agile education system to meet future needs.

Governments can restore consumer confidence, build resilience into the global supply chain, facilitate long-term employment, rebuild infrastructure, and improve the performance of government-owned assets.

All these improvements require sophisticated specialists in transformation, growth and restructuring to push programs toward success. The EY-Parthenon government and public sector strategy consulting teams are experienced in working on these complicated issues and can help design the right strategies to solve them.

Public services and community building

The pandemic exerted a lot of pressure on employment regulations, social security protections, pension systems and health care. It also exacerbated health disparities and job-and-income inequality. At the same time, it highlighted the urgent need for governments to empower communities to improve resilience in future crises. There are no quick and easy answers to these issues, but the EY-Parthenon GPS strategy consulting teams work closely with governmental agencies to deliver solutions.

Ways of working

The pandemic exerted a lot of pressure on employment regulations, social security protections, pension systems and health care. It also exacerbated health disparities and job-and-income inequality. At the same time, it highlighted the urgent need for governments to empower communities to improve resilience in future crises. There are no quick and easy answers to these issues, but the EY-Parthenon GPS strategy consulting teams work closely with governmental agencies to deliver solutions.

Public finances

Government finances and taxation systems can better use technology, including artificial intelligence and blockchain, to analyze data, deter fraud, and manage public finances.

EY-Parthenon strategy consultants working together with EY specialists in technology, data analytics, tax policy and procurement. We use emerging technologies to drive efficiency in public spending, improve revenue collection and ultimately begin to reduce public debt.

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) and sustainability

ESG and sustainability performance and reporting continue to grow in importance. Collecting and correctly analyzing the right information is essential to drive appropriate regulations and achieve positive ESG outcomes.

EY-Parthenon GPS strategy consultants help governments gather and maximize this information in many ways. We help strengthen governmental trading regulations as well as tax practices to improve ESG results. We help determine the best research and development work to boost green expansion as well as help design market regulations to promote emission reductions.

In addition, our experts also can help implement new strategies such as outcomes-based budgeting to address the inequities of data-driven goals. And we have methods of tracking the spending and investments in disadvantaged communities, which, in turn, help protect vulnerable populations.

Facilitating a path to a better future

Governments’ responsibilities and decisions have enormous ramifications. EY-Parthenon government and public sector specialized strategists are here to help. The EY-Parthenon government and public sector strategy consulting team can help provide strategic solutions to complex issues and work with you to implement them. Our goal is to help reimagine the future of government by facilitating a path forward to a more resilient, equitable and sustainable future.

EY-Parthenon Health and Wellness Strategy Consulting teams help develop and deliver growth, transaction, digital and value creation strategies. We help health and life sciences organizations build greater financial and operational resilience and technical agility, supporting their future growth within an ever-changing landscape.

What the EY-Parthenon Health Sciences and Wellness Strategy Consulting teams can do for you

As the Health Sciences and Wellness industry is transforming, EY-Parthenon Health Strategy Consulting teams can help you answer some of your most critical questions:

• How should I refine my business strategy to meet evolving customer needs and the ever-changing health and wellness landscape?
• How can I reinvent my operating model and go-to-market strategy?
• How can I hone my organization’s strategy to strengthen its operational resilience?
• How can I grow market share through investment in digital innovation? How can I leverage the ecosystem to scale my products and services?
• What type of transaction or partnership will propel our organization’s growth and pair with consumer needs?
• What is the right strategy, to buy, build or partner, and to solve the innovation deficit?

EY-Parthenon Health and Wellness strategy professionals can advise clients on developing growth strategies by providing broad market, competitor and customer insights. But a strategy alone is not enough: we also help organizations execute strategy through real operational change. We help them transform the vision into reality by leveraging strategic, financial and operational perspectives, based on deep sector experience and firmwide knowledge to help enable end-to-end execution.

EY-Parthenon Transaction Strategy teams help clients realize their full potential through fast-tracked, better-informed decisions across the entire deal lifecycle. We guide clients from M&A or divestment strategy, planning, transaction diligence and specialized health due diligence processes, through the integration or separation phases of a transaction — to build long-term value.

EY-Parthenon Turnaround Strategy teams can work with stakeholders to rapidly provide broad strategic, financial, operational, tax, turnaround and restructuring advice to help address business issues in critical and complex situations. From value creation to restructuring, we can help when health and life sciences organizations face financial or operational challenges.

Healthcare

Today’s patients are consumers who expect more from their health and wellness experiences: seamless and simplified processes, faster engagement, virtual and on-site care that is convenient, responsive, and effective. Healthcare organizations are employing data in myriad ways, trying to unlock value and understand all components that contribute to people’s complex health journeys. Data can inform healthcare providers and payers to understand these drivers and anticipate healthcare needs. It can also be leveraged to analyze an organization’s internal operations and markets more deeply, to make better-informed, strategic choices that bolster financial sustainability.

The massive amount of data, quickly evolving technologies and the many ecosystems in health care can be overwhelming and complex. By focusing on what matters most to health organizations’ consumers and workforce, EY-Parthenon teams can bring together these three critical aspects to help create a technology-enabled, personalized health and wellness experience, supporting healthcare organizations to advance their missions to serve and improve the health and wellbeing of their populations.

EY-Parthenon Health and Wellness Strategy Consulting teams can help organizations shore up their operations today, while positioning themselves for future success. We understand and work with the broad health ecosystem every day. We understand what consumers demand and what capabilities are needed to meet and exceed their demands. We are here to help organizations succeed in their quest to provide health care that is predictive, personalized and equitable.

Life Sciences

The Life Sciences industry has excited the world by leveraging new platforms to address some of society’s most pressing health problems. But the industry is also facing an innovation deficit that requires an ecosystem mindset to find new avenues for growth in particular, as specialty drug spending far outpaces traditional drug spending. New emerging modalities include gene and cell therapies, mRNA drugs or vaccines, and complex biologics.

At the same time, capital costs are increasing, leading an industry that has focused on topline growth to address costs and strengthen financial and operational resilience. Digital disruptions operating models and how care is delivered, while regulatory considerations transform pharmaceutical supply chains.

EY-Parthenon Health and Wellness Strategy Consulting teams cover a broad spectrum of life science services for both corporate and private equity clients, including biopharma (branded and generics), medical technology, life science services (CRO and CDMO), diagnostics, life science tools and reagents. Through corporate and growth strategy services, we provide in-depth, real-world perspectives and identify inorganic growth options that lead to M&A programs. Through commercial due diligence services, we help create heavily researched, data-backed insights for our clients. We also help you develop and implement innovation strategies around digital capabilities and emerging technologies.

Through Health and Wellness Strategy Consulting, EY-Parthenon teams help leaders design and deliver transformative strategies to build long-term value.

EY-Parthenon private equity strategy consulting teams help clients to create and implement strategies which put their financial resources to work to generate returns. Supporting before, during and after investment, EY-Parthenon brings value through a range of Strategy and Transaction services, and through collaboration with teams across the EY organization.

What EY-Parthenon private equity strategy consulting teams can do for you

At a time when private equity firms hold substantial dry powder, but face a fast-changing and challenging business environment, the EY-Parthenon private equity strategy consulting team can help by revealing opportunities and identifying risks.

Our support starts at the investment lifecycle stage, when private equity managers are seeking to answer strategic questions. The EY-Parthenon private equity strategy consulting team provides insights needed for clients to decide where to invest capital by sector and company type.

After a target is selected, questions like: “how should a firm originate deals, create new deals, and be sure that it’s the right deal?” often surface. EY-Parthenon private equity strategy consulting teams can help further, advising clients as they search to optimize deals in the holding period.

Once a firm has acquired a target, EY-Parthenon teams help enable sustainable value creation by providing technical capabilities across:

• Finance: digital finance, value and performance management, designing and helping deliver new back office operating models
• Customer and growth: sales, commercial and pricing; brand and marketing; innovation and digital growth
• Technology: data and insights, cloud and legacy, and cybersecurity and data privacy
• Supply chain and operations: help managing supply chain disruption, mitigating inflation and optimizing cash, and being fit for the future
• Organization and people: building effective management teams at pace, transforming and rationalizing HR, and designing and helping deliver new operating models
• Carve-outs: preparing divestment for sale, diligence of divestments, and implementation

When clients need help with exit readiness, the EY-Parthenon private equity strategy consulting teams offer sell-side support, preparing a company for sale by helping to optimize the divestment perimeter and carve out financials to help maximize value, presenting an appropriate separation blueprint, and reducing execution risk by making the business separable.

EY-Parthenon private equity strategy consulting teams offer a wide range of diligence services, including commercial diligence, software diligence, and other types of diligence in finance, tax, cyber, HR and Environment, Social and Governance (ESG).

Leveraging the EY global organization, we can help create even more value for clients through collaborations with our network of teams:

PE digital strategy solutions

Activating digital transformation is a core component of value creation. We help private equity clients articulate and implement a digital vision that reflects their unique need — helping to address an array of digital challenges at the firm, fund and portfolio levels. Our private equity digital strategy priority offerings help enable portfolio companies to assess their digital maturity, drive digital growth and enhance operations through digital risk management, process efficiencies, connectivity and cost removal.

Sustainability and ESG strategy services

From ESG diligence to ESG strategy, EY-Parthenon can assess ESG footprints, and identify risks and opportunities.

The EY-Parthenon strategy consulting teams help technology, media and entertainment, and telecommunications (TMT) companies focus on the right priorities to create long-term growth.

What EY-Parthenon TMT strategy consulting teams can do for you

Technology, media and entertainment, and telecommunications (TMT) companies led the world in digitalization. This transformation enabled companies to pivot their strategies in response to critical challenges globally, such as the increasing need for remote work, distance learning, telemedicine, consumer online shopping and more.

Today, as industries converge and new digital technologies develop, the pace of change continues to accelerate. With these advances come new challenges including regulatory ambiguity, market volatility, environmental, social and government (ESG) concerns, increased competition, and new consumer behavior.

How do companies in this sector develop and sustain the agility to continue to thrive and lead this technological revolution? The answer? Having the right strategy realized. In other words, creating a strategy based upon a broad perspective on the competitive landscape within the correct market context. Companies need strategies that are based upon a deep understanding of new technologies (e.g., AI, blockchain, 5G, digital infrastructure), changing business models, cyberthreats, and disruptive competitors. These businesses must also identify what drivers will lead to long-term, sustainable value creation.

EY-Parthenon teams can help. We have crafted customized and sustainable strategies with a deep understanding of digital technologies and transformation. EY-Parthenon TMT strategy consulting teams provide corporate and growth strategy, digital infrastructure strategy, product and technology diligence, new market entry approaches, portfolio strategy and business model reinvention. We pinpoint and assess potential acquisition targets. We help develop new collaborations with public and private organizations. We also help TMT organizations respond to external challenges. From supply chain issues to future growth strategies, we help companies prioritize ESG, build resilience and turn disruption to opportunity. From technical due diligence to integration assistance to planning a divestment, EY-Parthenon teams can ease transitions. And if performance is an issue, we work with companies to realize rapid improvement. We do this through activities such as portfolio realignment, corporate strategy assessments, or strategic cost evaluation.

Digital infrastructure spotlight

We work with leading investors, telecom service providers, telecom infrastructure providers, and technology companies to provide digital infrastructure support and solutions. Our work reaches into a broad range of sectors within TMT, from the infrastructure that stores and transports data to the devices at the edge of the network and the applications that interact with those devices.

What is digital infrastructure?

Digital infrastructure comprises the physical resources necessary to enable the use of data, computerized devices, methods, systems, and processes. It has become indispensable to society's functioning and quality of life.

The TMT sector is moving rapidly. Let EY-Parthenon TMT strategy consulting teams help you get in front of the competition today while you explore your growth opportunities for tomorrow.

EY-Parthenon teams help develop and deliver strategic opportunities for clients by providing in-depth market, competitor and customer insight — incorporating financial, operational and implementation perspectives across their entire organization.

What EY-Parthenon can do for you

EY-Parthenon teams can help business leaders and CEOs answer the following questions:

• What is your full-potential value and are you realizing long-term value?
• What growth opportunities exist in your core business?
• Is now the time to evaluate, prioritize and pursue adjacencies to optimize growth?
• In this time of volatility, are there transformational growth opportunities you should be considering, including both organic and inorganic paths?
• What is your business strategy in the digital world?
• Are you leveraging the transformative power of ecosystem business models?
• What are the right channels for your product or service, and what’s the best way to get into those channels?
• How well do you understand your customer’s needs and priorities, and what are you doing to address them?
• Are you getting the optimal return on investment (ROI) for your sales and marketing spend?

The corporate and growth strategy EY-Parthenon professionals have experience in the following areas:

Corporate and business unit strategy

EY-Parthenon professionals utilize data-rich analyses such as competitive analysis and economic forecasting, market sizing and customer perspectives into actionable and successful growth strategies in today’s everchanging and increasingly challenging landscape.

Purpose-led strategy and long-term value

EY-Parthenon professionals help clients define their purpose and translate it into action—by putting it at the very core of their strategy— in order to generate sustained, profitable growth and long-term value.

Business model reinvention

EY-Parthenon professionals help clients reimagine their future success and transform their businesses to meet the needs of their markets.

Portfolio strategy

EY-Parthenon professionals help clients understand the role and potential of different business units and advise them on how to optimize their portfolios, including identifying opportunities for acquisitions and potential divestitures.

New market entry opportunities

EY-Parthenon professionals help clients explore new market opportunities such as the expansion into new geographies, the identification of new channels, the targeting of new customer segments, or even the creation of new product categories. They then explore what gaps clients need to fill to fully capture that market opportunity and evaluate the most efficient ways to fill those gaps.

Digital transformation strategy

Digital is more than just a website or a marketing channel — it’s the backbone of a business and affects the entire operation. In today’s world, change is the only constant: changing customer needs, evolving technologies, disrupted value chain and fluctuating markets. EY-Parthenon professionals help clients navigate these changes and help them build a business strategy for a digital world.

Ecosystem strategy

A growing number of organizations are making ecosystem business models a strategic imperative. We can help you develop an ecosystem strategy that assesses the strength of existing partnerships, identifies new market opportunities and determines your role within targeted ecosystems. The result is a strategy that transforms operations and governance structure by aligning incentives across relevant elements of the value chain to drive ecosystem growth.

Go-to-market strategy

EY-Parthenon professionals assist clients in developing a detailed action plan for reaching target customers and achieving competitive advantage in the market.

Operational and IT diligence

EY-Parthenon professionals critically evaluate a target’s attractiveness through an assessment of their operational and IT infrastructures. They focus on the key issues that may affect the overall business case by analyzing stand-alone and stranded costs, examining efficiencies and developing fact-based positions for future-state operating models, determining optimal transition service agreements (TSAs), and helping prepare management for negotiations.

Commercial diligence (buy-side)

Using data-driven analysis, including the capabilities in primary and secondary research, and econometric analysis, EY-Parthenon professionals support clients’ diligence process by evaluating the attractiveness of a target’s industry, assessing its competitive position and opportunities for growth, understating its current and potential value proposition for its customer, and providing key input into valuation models.

Vendor due diligence (sell side)

EY-Parthenon professionals assist clients in the exit phase of investment by articulating a portfolio company’s strategic position, future growth opportunities, and full potential long-term value.

EY-Parthenon professionals design and help deliver digital strategy. We provide clients with distinct, innovative, sustainable, data-driven services to help fuel future growth, optimize current digital competencies and accelerate digital and business transformation.

Our digital business building teams can help innovate at the speed of a start-up and leverage your core strengths to deliver breakthrough impact.

In a competitive, results-driven world, leveraging digital technology and solutions is no longer a consideration. It is a must. Not only can it help optimize your current business, it also unlocks opportunities to adapt and transform the organization for future sustainable growth.

However, success isn’t guaranteed. A reported 70% of digital initiatives fail to meet their objectives. Reasons include conflicting priorities, failure to scale, misaligned processes or KPIs and more. The EY-Parthenon digital business strategy teams, keenly aware of pitfalls, works closely with you to overcome such threats.

We have a deep and strong understanding of technology, data, cultural transformation and process change. Combined with our in-depth vision and practical sector knowledge, we will work with you to explore, design and help execute a unique digital strategy that fits your business. Enabling you to respond at scale to early signs of disruption, creating value from data and technology and establishing a new source of growth that will differentiate your business from your competitors.

We can help you develop the digital strategies you need to achieve your objectives by answering your most pressing questions:

Grow: creating emerging sources of revenue

• How do I identify new revenue opportunities to support my growth?
• How can I use data and technology to transform my business?
• How do I define the roadmap to my digital transformation?
• How can I build my future business outside the core?

Optimize: wiring the core of the business

• How do I deploy and leverage emerging technology to optimize and automate my core business?
• How do I utilize data and technology to continuously adapt to the ongoing changes of the macro forces?
• How can I leverage digital technology to achieve my sustainability goals?

Accelerate: leaping to create value from digital

• What digital investment strategy will fit my business?
• How do I identify the right digital investment target or partner?
• How do I integrate a digital venture into my (core) business?

No matter where your organization is on the digital journey, with the vast global EY network and its wide range of services, our team will support you from origination through the implementation of your digital strategy.

Digital strategy consulting for growth

• Digital strategy – developing a proactive, future-back digital strategy that is aligned to your strategic imperatives. From driving efficiencies in the core to defining new business models or transforming your existing business with new digital capabilities – through buy, build partner or investment levers. Offerings include digital maturity index, scenario planning, business model innovation, plausible futures or sector convergence, and digital inorganic growth strategy
• Data strategy and monetization – supporting value creation by harnessing and leveraging your data and analytics to build insightful information to help you optimize your business. Offerings include digital transformation programs and software to Software as a Service (SaaS) transitions
• Digital ventures – advising and supporting the Corporate Venturing Capital (CVC) creation and network facilitation with start-ups to accelerate digital innovation. Offerings include corporate venture spinouts and venture capital setup

Digital strategy consulting for optimization

• Digitized front-end delivery – developing a digital strategy to enhance and digitize your existing front-end capabilities to help you maximize your potential growth. Offerings include direct channel strategy, automated marketing and pricing and digital customer experience
• Automated operations – analyzing your current operational approach and capabilities and identifying opportunities to digitize and help you enhance your operational efficiencies. Offering includes digital supply chain, intelligent automation (e.g., RPA) and emerging technology (AI, IoT, blockchain)
• Dual operating model and platform design – digital business model, governance and geolocation strategies (e.g., IP)

Digital strategy consulting for acceleration

• Digital M&A – identifying opportunities as well as evaluating and executing digital deals to support your company’s inorganic growth. Offerings include pre-deal diligence (software, cyber, IT), future value validation (sell-side) and integration planning (preserve or integrate)
• Partnerships and digital ecosystem design – analyzing threats and opportunities and identifying several best-fit acquisition and partnership options across your value chain and through start-ups and innovation ecosystems. Offerings include market scan, ecosystem definition and M&A playbook development
• Digital value creation – helping to optimize your digital solutions to ensure value creation and generate ROI. Offerings include portfolio assessments, digital development cycle strategy and operational implementation

EY-Parthenon teams can support you with the development, evaluation and end-to-end execution of your transaction strategy. We deliver operational due diligence, deal management, functional support (e.g. IT, Finance) and value creation advice and support. We advise our clients early to navigate transaction risk and increase value, from deal inception, to execution, and then driving toward longer-term transformation.

EY-Parthenon teams can help business leaders and CEOs answer the following questions:

• What is the role of M&A within your growth and portfolio strategy?
• Have you performed the necessary due diligence to ensure you are making the best transaction decisions?
• How can you achieve maximum value and reduce risks through transaction execution?
• Are you prepared for the challenges of merger integration?

EY-Parthenon transaction strategy professionals have experience in the following areas:

Operational and IT diligence

EY-Parthenon professionals assist clients with critically evaluating a target’s attractiveness through an assessment of their operational and IT infrastructure. They not only offer an early identification of the operational issues affecting a business case but also identify opportunities for post transaction value creation.

Commercial diligence (buy side)

Using data-driven analysis, including the capabilities in primary and secondary research, and econometric analysis, EY-Parthenon professionals support clients’ diligence process in evaluating the attractiveness of a target’s industry and assessing its competitive position and opportunities for growth

Vendor due diligence (sell side)

EY-Parthenon professionals assess clients in the exit phase of investment by articulating a portfolio company’s strategic position and future growth opportunities.

Integration strategy planning and execution

EY-Parthenon professionals help clients through the development of an integration strategy, identification of synergies and value creation opportunities, development of combined commercial and operating model, and development of an integration master plan. They also help clients execute the integration process, realize and track synergies and manage communication and change throughout the integration process.

Divestiture strategy planning and execution (DivestCo and RemainCo)

EY-Parthenon professionals support the development and execution of separation plans to reduce disruption to the ongoing business and disentangle complex areas — including customers and contracts, legal entities, IT infrastructure and applications, supply chain, finance & accounting and human resources. EY-Parthenon proprietary leading practice tools provide a robust platform to help manage your transactions in a coordinated manner.

Today’s disruption will require organizations to reshape. Strategic change focusing on financial and business restructuring or turnaround must be implemented with speed and certainty. We provide trusted leadership in critical and complex situations to transform, create, preserve and recover value.

What EY restructuring and turnaround strategy teams can do for you

As part of EY-Parthenon, our financial and business restructuring professionals support EY clients, from design to delivery, focusing on practical solutions that yield measurable results.

Organizations worldwide are facing an unprecedented array of challenges. These threats come in many forms, whether they be weakened balance sheets, challenges of operating in a virtual environment, macroeconomic or geopolitical changes, competitor innovation, or changing stakeholder expectations.

When time is important, our experienced problem-solvers provide restructuring advisory to move quickly from ideas to implementation. With access to an unrivalled bench of restructuring and turnaround professionals with industry experience, our global reach and rapid local reaction teams mean that our professionals can be quickly deployed wherever they are needed.

Connected globally, delivered locally and digitally enabled, our restructuring and turnaround strategy team is supported by a broad range of EY tools and technologies. EY M&A tools: Connected Capital Technologies help EY professionals deliver actional insights at a faster pace and deeper level than before, helping to ensure we can provide value to our clients.

We can help you answer common turnaround and restructuring challenges including:

• How can I rapidly improve the financial and operational performance of my business?
• Who can help me develop options for a rapid turnaround, rescue, recovery or contingency plan; then help me find capital to support it and negotiate with my stakeholders?
• Who can help me lead the restructuring, or offer interim management roles such as Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO) or Chief Restructuring Advisor (CRA)?
• How can I make more informed decisions about working capital and liquidity management?
• Who can help me take an investor lens view to my portfolio evaluation?
• How can I reshape the business model through business redesign?
• How do I make strategic decisions in times of ambiguity and uncertainty?
• How can I ensure that my tax strategy will maximize value in my turnaround plan?

Contingency planning and insolvency solutions services

Most restructurings need a “Plan B” — whether as a contingency plan to provide comfort for directors and stakeholders or, alternatively, for financial stakeholders to create a credible point of leverage to break the deadlock and help all parties reach a consensual deal. In particularly challenging situations, when directors and businesses are facing increasing risks and challenges to continued trading, we create the time, space and environment to develop and deliver the right solutions.

We work with management and financial stakeholders to use the pace, protection, powers and flexibility available under insolvency laws to address the issues threatening the survival of a business.

Corporate simplification services

Group structures can become increasingly complex over time, leading to increased costs and risks.

We have experience supporting the complete spectrum of organizations in simplifying their corporate structure. Our team integrates restructuring, tax and financial advisory knowledge to help organizations assess, rationalize and simplify their legal entity structures across the following key phases of corporate simplification: setup, group complexity analysis, program management, due diligence, and issue resolution and entity eliminations.

Liquidity and working capital services

Especially in times of uncertainty and disruption, many management teams struggle to sustain good control over short-term cash flows and the working capital that drives them, leaving the business vulnerable to market and operational changes.

We have experience supporting the complete spectrum of companies, whether a successful business seeking to enhance shareholder value or an organization experiencing a cash crisis. We help you develop the three main ingredients of strong working capital management: identification of cash-generating opportunities, cash flow forecasting, and visibility and control through our advanced digital analytical techniques.

Interim management: Chief Restructuring Officer/Advisorransactions

EY can help with interim management acting as a Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO) and offering Chief Restructuring Advisor (CRA) services. Restructuring or turning around an organization brings many challenges on top of the daily demands of running a business, for example: managing competing agendas, creating time to develop options, knowing which option is the right one when information may be imperfect and executing decisions at pace to maintain stakeholder support in a stressed environment.

We create understanding, alignment and support with internal and external stakeholders. We focus on actions that deliver transformational outcomes and provide interim management solutions, including offering a CRO or CRA, to help you deliver results.

Preserving stakeholder value

Stakeholders are asked to respond quickly when businesses underperform or suffer liquidity shortfalls or value erosion. We help provide support and communications in a rapidly changing environment when information is incomplete, agendas no longer align, and confidence is reduced.

We work with all stakeholders to preserve, create and recover value through restructuring advice, critical appraisal of a company’s ongoing viability, stakeholder intermediation, options analysis and entity priority analysis.

Debt restructuring, raising capital and M&A services

Preserving value for a company and its stakeholders often requires a reshaping of the capital structure and assets in the portfolio. This is achieved by a combination of selling non-core assets or business units to generate cash, attracting new capital and rescheduling or retiring existing obligations. Our team is experienced in helping you prepare proposals, obtain stakeholder support and execute the transaction.

In the USA, Ernst & Young Capital Advisors, LLC (EYCA) is a registered broker-dealer and member of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA: finra.org) and offers investment banking services with access to a network of EY debt restructuring, M&A, debt capital markets and equity capital markets professionals across the globe.

Rapid value creation services

Most businesses are likely to experience operational challenges and underperformance at some point. While the root causes can be buried, the negative impact can be highly visible — profit warnings, declining performance metrics, failure to achieve project milestones, loss of customer contracts or management departures.

Whether a business is in crisis or is simply facing an operational challenge, our team is experienced in helping underperforming or stressed businesses to develop and implement operational strategies to drive rapid performance improvement.

Private equity value creation services

Private equity (PE) firms are increasingly required to identify and deliver operational improvements to achieve targeted returns.

Our value creation leaders provide hands-on support, from strategy to implementation, to help PE companies accelerate cash and profit improvements and deliver their investment case. Our PE team has extensive experience in complex carve-outs, functional transformations, and instances of stress or distress.

Non-performing loan services

Non-performing loans (NPLs) remain a challenge for banks, particularly in these times of economic uncertainty.

Our loan portfolio solutions team brings together experienced operators and deal advisors to advise financial institutions about their non-performing loan portfolios and also the buyers of those portfolios, delivering value through our breadth of knowledge and expertise.

Restructuring and turnaround tax services

At whatever stage an organization is on the performance curve, tax is an area that cannot be overlooked. Tax strategies can have an enormous impact on your business recovery. When well managed they can be vital in enabling a business turnaround, however when ignored they can eliminate options.

Whether your business is underperforming, stressed or distressed, our global network of tax professionals can help you create, preserve or recover value. The global EY network combines local tax knowledge across a broad spectrum of industry sectors, to help you make informed decisions and navigate the tax implications of all your business-critical decisions.

The EY-Parthenon commercial strategy team adopts a customer-centric approach to help companies accelerate inorganic and organic growth through business model innovation. The team focuses on commercial and go-to-market strategy, customer experience, pricing strategy, revenue optimization, and sales and marketing effectiveness as part of our clients’ M&A, turnaround and strategic growth priorities.

The EY-Parthenon commercial strategy team adopts a customer-centric approach to help companies accelerate inorganic and organic growth through business model innovation. The team works with Fortune 1000 and private equity firms to unlock commercial value through sustainable customer-centric capabilities powered by the right analytics, processes, roles, and culture throughout M&A, turnaround and strategic growth journeys.

Commercial strategy

New business models are being introduced everyday as companies and industries converge to create new sources of growth and meet customer needs. Through a proprietary set of analytics, industry benchmarks and sector-oriented skills, our team can help design a commercial model to recalibrate your current go-to-market (GTM) model, to best position the new products/offerings in the right markets leveraging the right set of channels.

Customer experience

Corporate portfolio changes stemming from innovation, separations and acquisitions require companies to be customer centric. Our team helps design the customer experience, identify fraction points along the customer journey, and create a fit-for-purpose experience based on the changing nature of the company’s product, service and overall portfolio.

Go-to-market (GTM)/route-to-market (RTM) strategy

Our team can help companies gain a competitive advantage when new products, services or businesses are launched through market participation design, RTM strategy and design (e.g., direct vs. indirect vs. hybrid), channel profitability analysis and optimization, and distribution assessment and transformation.

Pricing and revenue optimization

Our team helps clients create and execute a pricing strategy that can help significantly increase and sustain above market growth and profitability. The team brings an integrated approach to help clients solve pricing issues through use of benchmarks, applied analytics, technologies, training and pricing governance.

Salesforce and channel effectiveness

Our team can help companies increase business at each stage of the sales lifecycle. This includes improving and aligning sales channels across the ecosystem, defining the next generation sales model and required capabilities, driving transparency and improvement on the route to market mix while aligning incentive compensation to support the behaviors.

Marketing effectiveness

Our team has extensive experience helping companies increase the return on marketing spend by driving improved decision making through the customer journey. The team leverages deep segmentation and targeting models, alignment of the brand messaging by channel and actionable marketing-mix analytics to drive sustainable short- and long-term impact.

Revenue synergies

Unlocking revenue synergies is becoming increasingly important for companies seeking growth through M&A. Our team leverages pre- and post-close analytics to conduct synergy and dis-synergy diligence, detailed revenue and margin design by region, product, and key accounts supported through alignment to the P&L holders of the combined company.

Our team has deep analytics capabilities to support the improvement of commercial aspects across the marketing, sales, and customer continuum:

• Margin decomposition to understand true profitability
• Customer analysis to understand contribution, churn, and lifetime value by segment
• Quantitative analysis to support product assortment and pricing decisions
• Regression analysis to correlate marketing spend to revenue and growth for targeting
• Geospatial demand profiling, demographics analysis, and geographic targeting
• Cost to serve modelling by channel, outlet, or geography
• Quantify synergies and growth opportunities to support pre-deal or cleanroom efforts
• Sales representative and/or channel margin analysis to rank performance