We help organizations improve significantly their performance through advising and being actively involved in the operational management of their business.
Some of the most important contributions we offer include providing fresh, knowledgeable, and unbiased opinion on
the client firm’s challenges; transferring previous applicable experience and best practices from other clients and companies; specialized expertise and thorough knowledge in the involved subject areas.
Not only do we provide managerial guidance and support, but at many times we get actively involved in the day-to-day management of our clients’ operations and dedicate all the time, efforts, and focus, needed for their successful implementation.
Among our associates, there are many former and current seasoned business executives with diversified high-level managerial experience and a long track record of achievements. We are in a position to secure knowledgeable and skilled expert managerial help with respect to any business or governance problem, faced by a client.
The recent decades have been marked by globalization in technology and communications, improved political climate and increased economic cooperation, removing of many international business restrictions; but also by increased global competition and higher quality standards.
Because of these demands and dynamics, many international companies do benefit from the assistance of global or local business advisory companies. Their involvement and contribution with success-critical local or regional business, cultural, and political knowledge, can be really crucial.
We advise our clients with respect to the financial decisions corporations make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. Our consulting topics include maximizing corporate value and managing the firm's financial risks; mergers, acquisitions, and divestments.
Employing experienced professionals in M&A advisory of the global Oil and Gas industry, we consult our clients, covering the exploration, development, and transportation stages of energy resources, besides specializing in several other industries’ M&A matters.
Our expertise covers both long-term and short-term decisions and techniques. We serve our clients, providing them with insights and practical knowledge regarding capital investment decisions in investment projects, whether to finance the investments with equity or debt, and when or whether to pay dividendsto the shareholders.
Seeking to maximize the value of our client’s enterprise, we help the entity in choosing and investing in projects which yield significant positive net present value, when financed and controlled appropriately. The stages we cover include the investment, financing, and dividend decisions.
We also serve various working capital management needs of our clients, dealing with the short-term balance of current assests and liabilities, managing cash flows, inventory, and short-term borrowing and lending.
The most important prerequisite for a successful enterprise is managing it properly at a strategic level. This is an ongoing process which concerns not only the company itself, but equally involves assessing the competitors’ actions and the perspectives for the overall business environment and economy.
We specialize in assisting our clients at all strategic levels – beginning from the overall corporate strategy, going through the business tactics, and even mapping and facilitating the needed strategic actions at the functional level.
The help we offer includes evaluating current circumstances, setting motivating and achievable goals for the business entity, formulating the most appropriate strategy and tactics for reaching these goals, implementing the agreed strategy, and finally, evaluating the outcome of these high-level activities.
Our main strength in strategic activities is implementing total corporate turnarounds and major strategic changes of businesses under stress or entities with new ownership or management.
We can contribute significantly to the following strategy management stages of your company:
- Strategy formulation – conducting a situation and market/competition analysis and evaluation; setting mission statement, strategic and tactical objectives and timeline; formulating the overall business strategy and plan of the enterprise
- Strategy implementation – establishing the managing structure and relationships and assigning responsibilities; allocating and controlling resources; introducing best practices and benchmarks; continuously managing the strategic process and monitoring the results
- Strategy evaluation – assessing the effectiveness of the corporate strategy and producing a SWOT analysis
In engaging with the above activities for our clients, we place a strong emphasis on their competitive advantages and stay particularly focused on the marketing and customer service aspects of their business.
A great percentage of the existing businesses are looking for untapped markets in new territories. Entering foreign markets and developing new channels is a strategic objective which can yield significant return.
We help these companies in many ways. Conducting customized market and competitive research, identifying specific opportunities, and networking are just a few of the services we provide.
At times, businesses are struggling with finding a short- or mid-term solution to their management staffing needs, especially in the enterprise’s foreign subsidiaries or newly-acquired divisions.
We employ experienced executives with proven track of managerial success and thus provide our clients with directly and immediately applicable temporary management resources and skills. The short-term assignment of a proven heavyweight interim executive to manage a period of transition, crisis or change within an organization, can prove to be crucial not only to the business’ growth, but often to its very survival.
Occasionally, a permanent role may be unnecessary or impossible to find on short notice. Additionally, there may be nobody internally who is suitable for, or available to take up, the position in question.
In all the above cases, we can offer appropriate interim managers who can interview with our client and accept appointment within days of our client’s notice. They will usually have past experience of challenges, similar to the ones they are about to face and will be equipped to have an immediate effect and be productive from the outset, minimising the risk of things going wrong and, more importantly, ensuring success.
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Being a corporation of international character, our associates are engaged with advising businesses in a number of worldwide locations, among which are Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, New York, Chicago, London, and other global cities.
We have the knowledge and expertise, necessary for a business to be successful in establishing, growing, and maintaining its international operations.
This includes assistance in setting up, and, at times, in the subsequent management, of the commercial and operational activities of both service and production companies and establishing the pattern of their cross-border commercial and financial transactions.
Our services comprise of strategic and practical assistance in understanding and actually dealing with all the factors which require substantial changes in the way your business operates from one country to another. We assist our clients with meeting the challenges of the foreign economic, legal, and political systems; labor, accounting, and environmental standards; local corporate and social culture; business regulations; commercial and governmental networking.
Most of the companies nowadays are either international in nature or are forced to extensively compete with international companies. Operational approaches and management style differ from those used domestically and the best methods of managing a business usually differ by country.
Being a corporation with international presence, and having current and former high-ranking associates from the field of industry, commerce, and government in a number of countries, we are in a position to offer complex and effective solutions to your networking needs.
The importance of being connected to peers, competitors, policy makers, and regulators, is of an utmost priority in many of the economies nowadays, be they developed or developing countries.
We can take care of your networking needs in a professional and confidential manner and can introduce you, often through our direct and certain access, to the organizations and individuals you need to meet in order to increase your chances of success in your business field in a given country.
Canada Hill actively supports all reasonable social and environmental responsibility efforts of corporations, governments, and the global community.
We are familiar with and can advice your company regarding the necessary and positive social and environmental policies and practices you would need to adhere to.
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