The rise of digitalisation and data, new disruptive challenger brands, increased emphasis on sustainability and the breakdown of traditional market archetypes are just some of the megatrends impacting the entire CPG industry and the way it looks to the future. Embedded as part of your team, we help you quickly define and deliver the change you need to succeed around the world, online, with your customers, consumers, distributors and suppliers. CPG companies, traditionally B2B-focused, have the opportunity to evolve in the digital era. There are now opportunities for a dual focus on both B2B and B2C, emphasising growth and margin over efficiency. Our approach involves crafting a comprehensive top-down digital vision for CPG companies, not just a bottom-up capability strategy – turning potential threats into opportunities.

There has never been more uncertainty and upheaval in the energy sector, driven by complex geo-political and climate factors. Oil and gas companies are responding to the energy crisis, climate change, and the green energy transition, while the utilities side of the sector faces rising operating costs, increasing regulations, and volatile energy markets. The level of investment and change in workforce skills required to switch to green operations is considerable. Across the industry, companies are having to find new ways to improve operational efficiency, manage risks, and maintain commercial viability — and Berkeley is uniquely able to help energy businesses identify the changes they need to make, and manage and embed the change to ensure successful outcomes now and in the future.

A new wave of complex challenges are reshaping the financial services sector: new competitors present a threat to market share; digital capabilities heighten customer expectations; and regulatory requirements are evolving. It's vital that financial services organisations continue to adapt and transform their operations to ensure they remain competitive within an ever-changing sector. Financial services is one of the most data-rich sectors in the global economy. Whether it's leading multi-faceted technology transformation programmes, appraising operational capabilities, or developing a new organisation structure, we can help you accelerate your culture change by making it come to life through your business strategies, your projects and the way you lead and manage your people.

Driving change within the government and public sector can be challenging in ways unique to each organisation. Political agendas, multiple layers of governance, rapidly changing circumstances, and resource scarcity often combine to make action complex and challenging — Berkeley can help you bridge the gap between strategy and implementation. Our public sector consulting experts have considerable experience in translating strategic direction and policy mandates into actionable change on the ground. We recognise that budget and resources can be scarce within a public sector context, and that investment needs to deliver for the taxpayer — always focused on making a real impact, delivering value, and achieving lasting outcomes.

Healthcare is ever-changing and always challenging. Integrated care systems can deliver more for patients, but they require greater collaboration and partnership working. Investment in infrastructure and digital innovations may be necessary to change old ways of working and free up clinical time — we can help to shape, manage or accelerate this change, working with your people to define the strategies and deliver the projects that will ultimately lead to better health outcomes. With deep knowledge and experience of the public sector and the NHS, combined with learnings gained from the private business, our consultants can help you deliver lasting change. We've worked across the whole public healthcare system, from NHS healthcare providers and clinical commissioning groups to local authorities, central government, and regulators, as well as private healthcare providers, health insurance companies and medical suppliers.

The industrial manufacturing sector is facing an unprecedented number of challenges. Geopolitical factors are increasingly disrupting supply chains. Customer expectations are evolving and increasing. Technology continues both to disrupt and to offer new opportunities for growth. The workforce is ageing and there's a shortage of new talent — all while pressure is increasing to act on sustainability and achieve net zero. Berkeley can partner with manufacturers to transform their business so they can not only overcome the difficult challenges, but achieve long-term ambitions. Our 'low volume, high value' model means you won't be overwhelmed by large teams or take months to see results — we can assess and turn around major programmes in weeks, or help you develop a core strategy in a matter of days.

The media and entertainment sector is facing a startling pace of change. Digital technology has largely moved from supporting the business to being the business — and the most successful organisations are those that can combine digital capability with great innovation, creativity and content expertise. To win in this environment requires a footprint and operations infrastructure that allows you to keep your finger on the global pulse and be sufficiently flexible to change and adapt quickly. Media and entertainment companies are faced with the decision to either partner with or acquire other businesses to access the latest technology and expertise, and to adapt to new business models. We have helped clients in all areas of the industry — media agency holding companies, individual agencies, and the major content producers — in an environment where transformational change is becoming a way of life rather than a one-off.

In the ever-changing landscape of the pharmaceutical and medical sector, the demand for businesses to adapt and evolve in order to provide the best patient outcomes can be tough. Working closely with each of our clients, we offer pharmaceutical management consulting advice on how to tackle the challenges and complexities that are inherent in this sector — an industry integral to all our lives. The Berkeley Partnership supports pharmaceutical and medical businesses navigating through complexity, towards successful outcomes. Whether it's helping you to align on direction when setting a strategy or harnessing new technologies to bring about a step change in your operating model, our involvement is designed to put your interests first and help build your internal capability to drive long-lasting change.

Many private equity investors encounter barriers to growth and value realisation, both pre- and post-deal. The Berkeley Partnership's private equity consulting services can help bring all stakeholders together to build from common ground and remove barriers to growth — combining private equity consulting knowledge with deep experience in shaping and delivering complex transformational change. With support on operational due diligence, you can identify the barriers and address them with a practical and realistic plan, considering all options and building value pre-deal. Post-deal, we can help you create high-confidence plans to deliver the value that underpins the rationale for the transaction, including key growth-enabling capabilities such as technology leadership and change management.

Professional associations and membership bodies need to innovate to remain relevant and responsive to customer and member demands. Transformational change may be necessary, but can feel complex and challenging to achieve — Berkeley can help organisations adopt the best structure, strategy, practices and technology to achieve a step-change in delivery. Our consultants can partner with you to develop business strategies that improve performance, and ensure your market positioning, service offer and service delivery model remain relevant in a digital age. From moving offerings online to getting real insight from data, we can help you make the most of the latest technology, take a generational leap in capabilities, and set you up to engage and grow your community long into the future.

Delivering meaningful change in the real estate industry is complex due to the need to balance the inherently local nature of physical buildings with the benefits of global scale and digital transformation. Our consulting services have helped real estate companies through challenges such as moving to a global operating model while still maintaining local expertise, driving digitisation and PropTech expansion, and implementing successful post-merger integration. Our embedded and collaborative approach and our experience of navigating complex stakeholder landscapes enables us to deliver lasting transformative change. We partner with senior leadership teams to facilitate real and lasting change where it's needed most — recognising that buy-in from the complex stakeholder landscape in the industry is equally as important as the solution itself.

Regulators are faced with expectations of perfection, yet they are often stretched thin by budget constraints and an expanding scope. The demands on regulators always seem to grow, with regulatory scope often expanding and the number of firms under their oversight increasing — yet regulators still need to achieve their objectives, while operating within constrained budgets and headcounts. Berkeley can help regulators improve their approach, operating model, systems and processes to ensure they maximise regulatory impact with the resources they have available. Our cross-sector strategy expertise means we can bring new ideas while helping to drive the razor-sharp focus that's necessary to successfully deliver regulatory objectives.

Mining and other natural resource operations are often quite geographically distant from business headquarters. This can lead to a very disconnected operations centre, which may not be as useful and value-adding to the organisation as it can be — the companies who can meet this challenge are the ones that will be best positioned for ongoing viability and long-term success. Our consultants can partner with you to design the right target operating model for your business, clarifying the role of the centre and how it works in relation to operations and assets. Berkeley is uniquely positioned to help companies in this sector deliver large transformation programmes — whether that be technology implementation or organisational change — with a hands-on approach and strong experience in complex, high-stakes circumstances.

Retail businesses need to undertake constant change and innovation to beat the competition and meet ever-increasing customer demands. The changing use of technology has expanded customer expectations, while new competitors are emerging with challenging business models — retailers must adapt and evolve, which will require major change for most: new markets, evolving business practices, shifting supply chains, new customer offers, and developing and prioritising different channels. Berkeley's retail management consultants can help at every stage of the business life cycle, from strategy development to product distribution. We continue to partner with retail clients to shape and deliver complex transformational change at a time when the need to respond to market and competitor forces has never been greater.

From raw materials to the distribution centre, to the end customer and back, global supply chains are growing ever more complicated. Geo-political instability and the desire to 'friend-shore', the need to meet ESG regulations, and increasing end-customer expectations add to that complexity — companies that achieve transparency and traceability for their customers will outpace the competition. Berkeley provides supply chain and logistics consulting to help you deliver the digital capabilities required to derive better insights and deliver more value for clients. We can help implement technology such as tracking and geolocation capabilities to ensure transparency and visibility at every stage of the supply chain, including traceability related to environmental sustainability and ethical sourcing.

Transport and travel providers increasingly need to undertake complex transformation, responding to rapidly changing requirements in their sector. Change is constant — driven by issues such as regulatory reforms, investment in strategic infrastructure programmes, the need to address capacity constraints, the push towards net zero, changing behaviour and technology, and organisational changes such as franchise renewals. Berkeley provides transport and travel consulting services that can help clients achieve successful transformations for long-term results. As experienced transformation specialists, we can partner with you to cut through complexity and turn your ambitions into real results, securing the strong senior sponsorship needed to advocate change and ensure lasting outcomes.

Supports organisations in executing large-scale transformation programmes across digital, finance, HR, IT and data domains — from programme mobilisation through to recovery and portfolio management. Includes change management, digital transformation, finance transformation, HR transformation, IT transformation, programme management, independent programme assurance, programme recovery and turnaround, and coaching for transformational change. Demonstrated through client case studies including Dow Jones finance function step-change and global real estate services company transformation management office turnaround.

Helps organisations develop and execute strategies for AI, digital transformation, data and analytics, cyber security, cloud operating models, and major technology programmes. Includes AI strategy and transformation, digital transformation delivery, data and analytics strategy and delivery, cyber security and operational resilience, IT strategy and operating model, IT transformation, cloud and product operating model design, and supplier selection. Demonstrated through case study of global supply chain logistics company building cyber security and operational resilience capabilities.

Builds leadership capability and organisational health through coaching, change management, organisational effectiveness assessments, and employee experience improvement. Includes executive coaching for transformational change, organisational effectiveness diagnostics, employee experience enhancement, and change management support to develop leadership capability and drive organisational health across transformations.

Provides independent assurance, programme recovery, and risk management support to help organisations protect and recover complex transformation investments. Includes independent programme assurance, programme recovery and turnaround, change management, supplier selection, coaching for transformational change, and cyber security and operational resilience support. Evidenced through global real estate company transformation management office turnaround case study demonstrating independent programme assurance and project recovery capabilities.

Advises organisations on operational due diligence, M&A planning and integration delivery, and operating model design in the context of transactions. Includes M&A due diligence, post-merger integration planning and execution, and operating model design tailored to transaction scenarios. Evidenced by the Dentsu International M&A integration global playbook development case study.

Helps organisations shape business strategy, design target operating models, and define how functions such as IT, HR, Finance, and Supply Chain should be structured and run. Encompasses business strategy formulation, target operating model design, organisation design and implementation, and integration of AI strategy, data and analytics strategy into core business planning.