Case Studies

A leading Nigerian financial services group operating across banking, insurance, and asset management faced significant strategic disruption following a major regulatory reform cycle. Its existing portfolio strategy, built on regulatory arbitrage, was no longer viable. The board required a credible strategic response.

We conducted a rigorous strategic diagnosis across all business units, mapping the impact of the new regulatory environment on each segment's competitive economics. We then facilitated a board-level strategy redesign, producing a three-year portfolio plan anchored in defensible competitive positions and compliant operating models.

A 30-year-old manufacturing group preparing for generational ownership transition faced compounding challenges: an outdated governance structure, unclear accountability lines, and no formal succession plan for the CEO and two functional heads approaching retirement simultaneously.

We designed a new governance and accountability framework, separated ownership from management responsibilities, developed a Board Charter, and built a 24-month succession roadmap including identification, development, and transition planning for each critical leadership role.

A mid-sized infrastructure developer operating across five states had grown rapidly through project accumulation without a disciplined capital allocation framework. The result: an over-leveraged balance sheet, project-level returns significantly below cost of capital, and a management information system that could not support executive decision-making.

We rebuilt the project portfolio evaluation methodology, designed a capital allocation policy, created a project-level financial performance dashboard, and restructured the reporting cadence between project managers and the executive committee.

A fast-growing FMCG distributor with ambitions to scale from two regional markets to national coverage was experiencing order fulfilment failures, increasing returns, and margin erosion driven by operational inefficiency. Growth had outpaced the operating model.

We conducted a comprehensive operational diagnostic, mapped the order-to-delivery cycle, identified seven structural bottlenecks, and redesigned the warehousing, dispatch, and routing process. We also designed the PMO structure required to manage the national expansion programme.

A technology platform with demonstrated product-market fit in Nigeria was evaluating expansion across five additional African markets simultaneously. Without a rigorous market prioritisation framework, the risk of capital diffusion and execution overload was significant.

We developed a market attractiveness and competitive intensity assessment across all candidate markets, applied a sequencing model based on strategic return, execution risk, and regulatory complexity, and produced a phased 36-month expansion roadmap with entry mode recommendations for each market.

A development finance institution (DFI) operating a ₦15bn loan portfolio was experiencing rising non-performing loans concentrated in two specific sub-segments. The board required a performance review that identified root causes, not symptoms, and a revised lending framework to prevent recurrence.

We analysed the full portfolio at a loan-level, mapped default patterns against borrower profile, sector, loan structure, and monitoring intensity, identified three systemic underwriting gaps, and redesigned the credit appraisal criteria, covenant structure, and portfolio monitoring protocol.