Strategy
We work with companies to formulate strategies that work, thus enabling the translation and implementation of strategies from concept to reality. We work extensively with our clients to develop strategies that address a wide range of challenges and opportunities within their market, locally and internationally.
Based on our extensive expertise, networking, and our knowledge of local realities,
we draw on our ability to do market analysis, Risk analysis, and legal analysis, to
provide companies with reliable consulting. We engage with companies over the
medium-term and the long-term
Strategy Implementation
We help companies evaluate and navigate corporate transactions. Our role is to
understand your strategy and create a due diligence approach specific to your needs.
Our role is to understand your strategy and create a due diligence approach specific
to your needs, including:
• Pre-deal evaluation,
• Transaction evaluation,
• Vendor assistance,
• Contract assistance,
• Integration, and
• Post-deal implementation.
Due diligence is crucial to success, and an independent assessment of the risks and
opportunities of the proposed transaction gives you increased peace of mind. We
focus on key matters that are likely to affect the price or cause you post-acquisition
difficulties. Then we provide comprehensive independent reports that enable sound
decision making.
Transaction Advisory (Corporate Finance)
We help organizations evaluate and navigate corporate transactions. In acquisitions, success depends on mastering the whole process from target identification and assessment through to integration and benefits realisation. Our role is to understand your strategy and create a due diligence approach specific to your needs, including:
- Pre-deal evaluation,
- Transaction evaluation,
- Structuring advice,
- Vendor assistance,
- Contract assistance,
- Integration, and
- Post-deal implementation.
Due diligence is crucial to success, and an independent assessment of the risks and opportunities of the proposed transaction gives you increased peace of mind. We focus on key matters that are likely to affect the price or cause you post-acquisition difficulties. Then we provide comprehensive independent reports that enable sound decision making.
Market Analysis and Positioning
Whether you are a start-up or you are launching a new product, we can help you to conduct a market analysis and to position your brand/product on the market.
Market Analysis
Knowing your niche market, its needs and how it is currently serviced provides you with key information to help you develop your product/service and marketing plan. A marketing analysis is the actual assessment of the target population, its needs, existing competition and the needs for marketing that product or service.
We normally break down the marketing analysis process into six steps:
- Defining the problem
- Analysis of the situation
- Obtaining data that is specific to the problem
- Analysis and interpreting the data
- Fostering ideas and problem solving
- Designing a plan
Market Positioning
We help you to influence consumer perception regarding your brand or product relative to competitors. This will establish the image or identity of your brand/product so that consumers can perceive it in a certain way. A few examples of positioning strategies include:
- Competitors: Influencing consumers to believe that your brand/product is better than that of your competitors.
- Product quality: Associating your brand/product with high quality.
- Product price: Relating your brand/product to competitive pricing.
- Product use and application: Linking your brand/product to a specific use.
- Product attributes and benefits: Associating your brand/product with a certain beneficial value or certain characteristics.
Business and Operating Models
We assist businesses to create effective business and operating models. Clients can be start-ups or existing businesses that are planning to transform themselves in order to remain relevant. Your business is complex and an operating model breaks this system into components, showing how it works. It helps various stakeholders to understand the whole and the leaders to identify problems causing under-performance. It is dynamic and can be changed regularly.
Why you need to reinvent your organisation
- If your competitors are reinventing themselves, then you too have to reinvent yourself to remain competitive and ahead of the pack.
- If you don’t have a clear operating model, you are forced to start from scratch each time you have a new initiative. That is because you will be unable to bring forward any automated, pre-existing, low-cost capabilities to your new strategic pursuits.
- Customers have become sophisticated and they expect more for less. So, if you fail to match their expectations, you will lose your market share.
- You make deliberate choices around the integration of shared data to increase efficiency, coordination, transparency, and agility.
- You make deliberate choices around the standardisation of business processes to drive efficiency and predictability throughout the organisation. This leads to noticeable increases in efficiency, operational excellence, product development, customer satisfaction and strategic agility.
Financial Sector Regulation
Legal, compliance and risk services under one roof
We help businesses in the financial services sector to set up, change, launch new products, manage regulatory change, respond to regulators, and much more.
Are you a new business trying to understand the regulatory landscape?
Are you an established business trying to remain compliant as regulation changes?
Have you identified a potential or an actual regulatory problem in your organisation?
Do you simply want to be assured that you are complying properly with regulation?
We are here for you. We assist you from the first step of understanding risk, compliance and legal implications to planning and implementing any operational changes. We have inhouse innovative consultants and legal minds, with specialist industry knowledge, working collaboratively across East Africa.
Legal
To remain competitive, you need lawyers who keep abreast of the latest developments in regulation and help you to constantly remain compliant. We have such lawyers.
Consulting
We offer interpretation, planning, and implementation as an end-to-end service. You receive a well-organized and effective solution that helps you achieve your business and regulatory objectives cost-efficiently. Our regulatory consultants will provide you with innovative and customised solutions to your risk, operational and compliance challenges. They work closely with our market-leading legal team.
Risk Management
Is everything in place to protect your organisation from business threats? We offer a range of effective and efficient risk management services. These days, businesses face many risks including data loss, ineffective governance and cyber-attacks. Implementing appropriate risk management strategies to protect your organisation and its employees is crucial for achieving objectives, survival, success and growth.
Let Seventh Armada assist you with the formulation and implementation of such strategies. Through our specialist technical experience, our market and sector knowledge and our forward-thinking approach to risk management, we can help you to implement the right solution. Our professional and experienced team offers risk management consulting services for key business functions. Our services include:
- Risk assessments and general risk management consulting.
- Internal audit.
- Reviewing SOX compliance.
- Information system assurance and advisory.
- Determining governance and regulatory compliance.
- Donor funding audits.
- Data analytics interrogation.
- Customised training to assist your business.
After determining potential risks to your business, we work with your team to implement risk management solutions. This may include enhancing internal controls, developing business continuity plans and training your employees.