Building stronger retail businesses: market insights, value drivers and future opportunities
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At Grant Thornton, we provide strategy consulting services through execution and transformation delivery to help organisations close this gap. We treat strategy activation as a core enterprise capability, working alongside leaders to translate strategy into coordinated, enterprise-wide implementation. This includes aligning governance, building capability, and embedding accountability to ensure outcomes are realised and sustained.
This maintains focus on outcomes. The result is measurable impact, embedded capability, and performance that continues beyond the life of the program.
We partner with organisations across Australia, from ASX-listed companies, private businesses, private equity investors and portfolio companies, as well as government and not-for-profit organisations to deliver complex transformation programs, improve execution capability, and realise strategic value.
We deliver complex transformation with clear accountability, disciplined execution, and measurable results.
Many organisations ask why strategy execution fails.
Execution is often the primary constraint on performance. In our experience, many projects do not achieve their intended outcomes because delivery lacks the structure, ownership, and visibility needed to translate strategy into measurable results.
We provide program and project management consulting services to translate strategic priorities into coordinated, enterprise-wide delivery. Our approach ensures outcomes are realised and sustained through:
We embed change by aligning stakeholders, building capability, and sustaining adoption. A common challenge is why change initiatives fail to stick. We consistently see that effective leadership, clarity of the future state, and capability uplift are the most critical drivers of successful change adoption.
Our change management consulting services focus on ensuring change is understood, adopted, and embedded into day-to-day operations. We work with organisations to:
We enable confident investment decisions with clear line of sight to value, risk, and execution capability.
Investors often ask how to assess whether performance is sustainable. In our experience, investment targets frequently rely on undocumented processes, outdated systems, or key individuals to deliver results, creating hidden risk.
Our commercial due diligence consulting services provide a transparent view of value drivers and downside risks by assessing underlying operating capability. We help ensure investment decisions are grounded in reality through:
We realise value quickly while building a unified, high-performing organisation. We see that differences in operating models, systems, and organisational culture can delay or dilute synergy realisation if not actively managed.
Our post-merger integration consulting services support organisations to align structure, harmonise processes, and embed consistent ways of working. We focus on accelerating value realisation while maintaining organisational stability through:
From growth and transformation to market expansion and performance improvement, we'll help you make confident decisions that drive sustainable success. Get in touch with our strategy consulting team to see how we can help your business make meaningful and lasting change.
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Partner and National Head of Retail and Consumer Products
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In the meantime, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us via communications@au.gt.com.
Helping organisations unlock value through digital transformation by utilising data, technology and AI, improving decision-making, driving efficiency and delivering measurable performance outcomes.
We help clients achieve performance improvement by developing and implementing new structures, models and plans to reach their strategic goals.
Unlock value through supply chain optimisation solutions, across cost reduction, service improvement and working capital.
Most organisations do not have a strategy problem, they have an execution problem – and the root cause almost always sits in the operating model.
Helping organisations unlock value through digital transformation by utilising data, technology and AI, improving decision-making, driving efficiency and delivering measurable performance outcomes.
Unlock value through supply chain optimisation solutions, across cost reduction, service improvement and working capital.
We help clients achieve performance improvement by developing and implementing new structures, models and plans to reach their strategic goals.
Most organisations do not have a strategy problem, they have an execution problem – and the root cause almost always sits in the operating model.
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