Bespoke consulting services for the digital transformation era
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Our team is comprised of accomplished professionals with proven success in Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions and Process Improvement disciplines. We have performed over 100 transactions, integrations, carve-outs and leadership projects in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Our people are trained at leading educational institutions and at top firms on best practices, frameworks, and playbooks. All our consultants have held distinguished leadership and executive positions in industry and their experience allows us to quickly address your problems. Many of our team are multilingual, all are impeccably credentialed and we are critical in our selection of new hires.
Bold
Cape Sierra was founded with the intention of serving the customer in a bespoke and intimate fashion in contrast with larger firms.
Trustworthy
We are a small firm with a strong reputation and repeat customers who generate word-of-mouth referrals.
Collaborative
Our team understands the needs of management and private equity stakeholders. We work as an extension of your team.
Efficient
We focus on the problem at hand and deliver value quickly with a small team of seasoned consultants.
Our approach is rigorous but not disruptive, holistic but practical, tailored to the client specific situation.
Our professionals drive operational excellence through pragmatic but not overly expensive solutions.
Our fee structure is flexible and strives to ensure alignment with the objectives of the client.
This is the Cape Sierra Way.
Our Principles
Baseline.
We seek to understand the project thesis, management’s initial assumptions and value creation plan. We make it a point to know where we start which allows us to objectively measurement of results.
Controls.
We ensure that internal processes are robust and aided by technology to institute checks and balances. Our motto is "no surprises”.
Visibility.
We closely monitor key performance indicators and enable management and project teams with knowledge and tools to see their progress and improvement.
Execution.
We determine which levers can be pulled to drive EBITDA improvement through educating people, improving process and implementing technology solutions.
Areas of Practice
Technology Strategy
The recent global pandemic has underlined how important Technology Strategy is to business organizations. How do you make your workforce ready for remote collaboration? What should you do to maintain corporate cybersecurity? Should you outsource infrastructure hosting and management or keep in-house? How can you scale processing power without breaking the budget? CIOs are often faced with having to make difficult decisions without a trusted partner. Our expertise in Technology spans software and infrastructure. We work with companies that grow organically and through acquisition. We understand these tough questions and have a track record of IT Excellence.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions are a core part of corporate strategy today. We work with private equity investors and corporate management teams. Our professionals have executed over 100 Mergers & Acquisitions, Carve-outs and Integrations. We support clients through all stages of the transaction from Due Diligence, through the First 100 Day Plan, Operational Improvement, Value Creation and Integration or Exit. Our experience in transactions has resulted in the development of many valuable frameworks and playbooks which allow us to successfully navigate the technical, legal, operational and personnel related pitfalls and hurdles that are part of the deal process.
Process Improvement
We approach Process Improvement from an owner's perspective. We ask questions that have not been asked in a long time. We ask why you do things the way you do them. We are rigorous and creative with a particular focus on attention to detail. We seek to understand how you serve your customer and how we can optimize your processes to ensure a reliable outcome that drives value every time. Our consultants and process engineers have years of experience across industries and functions which we have compiled into a flexible, adaptable and proven methodology for achieving results. Our focus is on risk mitigation, efficiency and quality improvement which translate to cost reduction and EBITDA growth.