Food Manufacturing - Improving Performance
Acutus helped an Australian food
manufacturer review its operating model.
Client Situation
Our client is a large Australian food manufacturer
The company was about to buy out the external minority interest in one of its Joint Ventures
In moving to full ownership, the company had an opportunity to identify and pursue opportunities for synergy and optimisation
Acutus was engaged as an independent advisor to explore potential opportunities with input from the leaders of the relevant business
Our Approach
To fully explore the potential synergy options, we commenced the review by engaging with senior business leaders to capture individual insights
We then synthesised insights into common themes and observations to articulate three broad opportunity areas
A workshop was then held to engage with our client’s senior leaders and generate ideas across each of the three opportunity areas, using an approach that involved:
– Individual thinking / ideation
– Team sharing and idea enrichment
– Team synthesis and presentation to wider group
Outcome
By focussing the workshop on the three opportunity areas that came up during interviews, we were able to prepare targeted prompts for participants which generated high quality discussion and ideation
Following the workshop, our client received a synthesis of the key synergy opportunities that senior leaders had collectively developed