We help organizations across all sectors create the change that matters most to them.
KDS Global was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 2008. Today, we work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact. Our diverse, global teams are passionate about unlocking potential and making change happen, delivering integrated solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures.
We help organizations across all sectors create the change that matters most to them.
We partner with our clients to transform their organisations into everything they do.
We combine global expertise and local insight to help you turn your ambitious goals into reality.
Our firm is designed to operate as one—a single global partnership united by a strong set of values, including a deep commitment to diversity and making positive social impact through our work and the way we run our firm.
We take a consistent approach to recruiting and skills development regardless of where our people are located, so that we can quickly deliver the right team, with the right experience and expertise, to every client, anywhere in the world.
Our consultants include an array of specialists but not limited to lawyers, medical doctors, engineers, designers, data scientists, business managers, inventors, entrepreneurs and research scientists. They join us on case to case basis to apply their talents to complex, important challenges.
Our work is founded on a rigorous understanding of every client’s institutional context, sector dynamics and economic environment. For this reason, we invest our firm’s resources in knowledge development, learning, and capability building. We study markets, trends, and emerging best practices, in every industry and region, locally and globally. Our investment in knowledge also helps advance the practice of management.
We engage with leading thinkers on the most pressing issues facing our clients and society.
Always innovating
Our clients’ needs are constantly changing, so we continually seek new and better ways to serve them. To do this, we are bringing new talent and developing new capabilities.
We serve clients at every level of their organization, whether as a trusted advisor to top management or as a hands-on coach. We partner with clients to put recommendations into practice and work directly with them over the long-term, to help develop workforce skills, drive operational improvement, and apply new working methods.
No matter the challenge, we focus on delivering practical and enduring results, and equipping our clients to grow and lead.
Consulting helps us deliver insight and impact quicker than ever. Our solutions leverage advanced technology, proprietary data, and deep expertise to help clients in new and exciting ways.
Optimize earnings and volatility
KDS Global helps companies that trade and process commodities to increase earnings resilience by decision-support to manage market risk.
Capability building
We train talent experientially by co-developing tools alongside teams to instill long-lasting capabilities and ensure new decision-making models are embraced by organizations.
Our Approach
KDS Global helps clients improve risk management performance by combining the right data and the right experts. By fostering collaboration between clients and data scientists, we enable clients to identify their data advantages and successfully implement advanced analytics that capture value by focusing on the risks they are best positioned to own. We tailor our approach in every project to best meet each client’s needs, challenges, and opportunities. Our analytical outputs include
Identifying hot spots for investment
KDS Global combines multiple layers of insights to identify high-potential value chains and size the opportunity for investment. By using extensive data on demand growth, local environmental conditions, production potential, value-chain structure, and trade, we can help investors prioritize where and how to play.
Investment selection
We define the most attractive value chains to target investment based on expected demand growth and regional competitiveness.
Investment strategy
We understand the area of the value chain—whether upstream and inputs or downstream in processing and trading—most ideal for investment.
Environmental analysis
We analyze the impact of climate change and other macroeconomic factors on local markets.
We help clients address these pressing issues by identifying growth opportunities and working with them to achieve commercial excellence through go-to-market strategy, pricing optimization, and sales execution.
Ensure consistent sales execution with compelling performance evaluation, incentive programs and rigorous performance management.
Identify growth opportunities based on macrotrends, micromarkets and data-driven segmentation of customers.
Optimize margins with the right price strategy, architecture, superior price execution and contract management.
Pinpoint sales growth opportunities throughout the customer lifecycle, through customer acquisition, account management, up-sell and cross-sell, value selling and retention.
Reinvent the end-to-end customer journey with a streamlined and omni-channel experience.
Set the go-to-market architecture, omnichannel strategy, supported by efficient, effective marketing, retailer selection, enablement and sales coverage.
Upgrade sales talent and accelerate sales capability building.
We make great impact in collaboration with our clients. We are deeply committed to making a difference in helping businesses thrive by prioritizing our impact and sustainable agendas. We seek to drive impact in climate, environment, global development, global health and education amongst other sectors.
Internally, we are committed to evolving our own business practices to make a difference in society, to protect our planet, and to empower our people.
Leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities.
From brand perception to supply chain efficiency, consumer products companies face a long list of daunting challenges. Consolidation, digitalization and the race to enter emerging markets add growing pressure. Where do you turn? We’ve helped many companies see through the haze, increasing profits and building sustained value.
We work with numerous companies around the world to
Develop the components of a winning strategy amid disruption, using our approach, which helps our clients track new angles of category disruption, increase the focus on consumer needs and embrace an analytical methodology for identifying disruptions and gauging their impact.
Help our clients businesses gain a competitive advantage in target selection, valuation and integration—building additional scale and the resulting economic efficiencies. Help our clients businesses into a competitive weapon.
Help our clients businesses gain a competitive advantage in target selection, valuation and integration—building additional scale and the resulting economic efficiencies
Accelerate brand growth, even in slow categories in developed markets.
Become a true partner for our clients, managing key accounts more effectively than ever.
Simplify, speed up and slim down to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of clients organization.
Demystify digital and focus on practical, immediate steps that set you on a path to leadership.
Whether you need to rapidly capture cost saving opportunities, zero-base your budget or strategically transform your cost structure, KDS Global can help.
Reimagine your operations—from supply chain to procurement—to unlock growth, reduce costs and unleash your strategy.
Ensure your organization is set up to deliver on your company’s strategy.
Improve your odds of successful M&A through an integrated, battle-tested approach that links acquisition strategy, commercial diligence and merger integration.
Since KDS Global’s founding in 2008, strategy has been our core business. We work with companies to develop strategies that deliver results.
Build your organization’s capabilities to sell more—or more profitably—by putting the right offers in front of customers at the right price and time in the most effective channels.
Demystify digital and focus on practical, immediate steps that set you on a path to digital leadership.
Products comprise of many sectors and subsectors, each with its own challenges. While the developing world presents growth opportunities for all, in more mature markets the outlook is decidedly mixed, varying by product category, geography and underlying economics. KDS Global works with companies in all sectors to find paths to profitable growth no matter what the obstacles may be.