Strategic Advisory Services

While clients value our extensive financial advisory experience, they take advantage of our ability to boost operational performance since our professionals have done it before as CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and CIOs.

At Odyssey, we provide the following strategic advisory services:

Enterprise Modeling

The process of building a robust financial model not only provides insight to the client's business model, but it also serves as a strong negotiating tool for achieving the financing strategy. Fully vetted, granular, and with the ability to model a range of assumptions and sensitivities, clients can present a compelling business case to their lenders and other key constituents.

Business Valuation

In today's environment, valuation is proving to be more of an art than a science, even though formulaic methodologies are still deployed. Proper discount rates, illiquid markets, and the uncertain macro-environment are all contemporary issues that directly impact valuation. Perhaps more importantly, these variables can also be used by third parties to the detriment of the client, which means they should be carefully considered, computed, and prescheduled as part of an overall negotiated strategy.

An objective valuation provides the business owner with an important tool for planning an orderly transition — it is a benchmark against which to measure the owner's personal, business, and financial objectives. It serves to identify viable transition options, including the timing of the liquidity event. We know a valuation is the first step in any acquisition process.

Odyssey provides valuation consulting services in connection with disputes, transactions, and day-to-day corporate management. In every valuation assignment, we are committed to providing a credible and defensible analysis that reflects our creativity and technical expertise.

Strategic Operational Cost Management

Odyssey deploys a number of proven methodologies for cost management projects that are tailored to the client's fact pattern. Whether it is process or activity-based costing, we provide executives with the tools they need to rapidly implement capabilities-driven cost reduction. First, we identify and clearly articulate your company's key capabilities—those strengths that, in combination, define how your organization competes. We will then use this information to create your company's unique blueprint for effective and efficient cost reduction. Our deliverables focus on indicators our professionals use when they have direct P&L responsibility and are instrumental in assisting with daily management.

Interim Management

In our experience, there is no situation more critical than a struggling organization without solid, proven leadership. We have an experienced team that has provided leadership under the most dire circumstances. Our professionals can establish corporate priorities, build morale, and provide a positive and energized vision for the organization to rally around. Specifically, Odyssey is comprised of senior professionals who have served in most key leadership positions during high-impact and volatile situations.

Operations & Logistics

Odyssey provides a level of operations expertise unique among general management consulting firms. Our definition of operations includes product development, process development, manufacturing, sourcing, distribution, supply chain strategy, and "back office" operations. Combining deep functional skills, we help clients build competitive and differentiating operations capabilities that deliver value. As a result, companies can operate profitably and invest in the future.