Are you facing commercial, financial, or operational difficulties following the Covid-19 pandemic? We can help.
STROIKA INTERNATIONAL
Stroika combines a team of industry leaders who have assisted numerous organisations in their journey out of financial challenges and provided value creation tools and techniques to successfully navigate through and out of financially challenging times.
WHAT WE DO?
The Stroika team take organisations through a journey of guiding principles which are aimed at:
- Strategic planning and management.
- Business turnaround and restructuring.
- Business opportunities analysis.
- Business function optimisation.
- Outsourcing solutions with real cost savings.
- Debt restructuring.
- Corporate finance.
- Organisational design.
- Rightsizing with SPEED, FOCUS and RESULTS.
What is value creation?
Value creation is the goal of every successful business entity, creating value for customers helps you sell your products and services with ease. In the same vein,
creating value for shareholders in the form of an increase in dividends and stock prices ensures the availability of investment capital to fund future operations.
Value creation occurs when businesses develop consistent streams of products and services that offer compelling and unique benefits to a specific target audience. This means an organization must establish and maintain a specific, sustainable value creation model to maintain industry leadership.
We help you create value.
Companies we have worked with
The Stroika team are led by Rene Schuster and have experience working with:
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CASE STUDIES
How a leading Covid testing company scaled down with help from Stroika.
Rene Schuster led the restructure of one the UK’s leading Covid testing organisations that had seen rapid growth during the pandemic.
The company turned to the Stroika team to review all operations to create a robust plan to “right-size” the organisation over a 6-month period.
This resulted in:
- Management team optimization.
- Review of organisation structure and operational sites.
- Introduction of enhanced performance metrics.
- Exit of c 1600 employees over a 4-month period.
- Review of all suppliers and terms of contract.
- Review of finance arrangements that led to restructuring of the company.
Outcomes:
- Economic value of the organisation enhanced by £30m.
- EBITDA improved from 14% to 26%.
- £200m employee cost saved annualized.
- £50m of supplier costs saved through negotiations.
- Positive cashflow achieved through 75% reduction on cost base.
- Zero employee tribunal claims.
- Positive employee engagement maintained throughout downsizing.
How the number one on line market place company rightsized and restructured over a 6-month period, with help from Stroika.
The Stroika team led the restructure of one the UK’s leading on line marketplace organizations with £4.9b of revenue passing through their platform annually.
Background:
- 75% retail industry market share.
- 50% healthcare industry market share (50/50 revenue share model negotiated with SBS / NHS services company a joint venture between The NHS and Sophia Steria).
- 70% construction/materials industry market share.
Outcomes:
- Significantly improved the Company and agents relationship and cooperation.
- Outsourced HR.
- Outsourced all commodity IT.
- Moved from IBM platform to AWS platform seamlessly.
- Right sized company removing 75% of inefficient manpower costs at all levels.
- Took out £1m per month burn rate to break even in 2 years.
- Leveraged new consumer (purchasing) on line behaviour to accelerate B2B platform sales.
- Brought the Company tactical middle management customer purchase to a strategic board customer purchase decision.
- Improved service sales cycle from 6-9 months to 1 month.
- Rebuilt customer value proposition focusing on Revenue Acceleration.
- Developed new pricing model split into a monthly licence fee (based on volume) plus a transaction fee (based on volume).
- Created new customer service team focused on quality service support.
- Managed the Company through a share price collapse from £10 per share to £2 per share and back up to £5 per share and track for a £13 per share by Dec 2022..
- Moved 100% of the Company operations & Customer Support to on line during Covid Crises.