Who We Are
Our consulting model matches your business leaders with our executive-level advisors. Our advisors are not business “theory” generalists, but “been there, done that” experts who bring expertise and experience to your specific business initiatives to drive growth.
When you have a growth strategy to execute, we offer the senior leadership and guidance to help ensure you get the intended results. Our work approach is based on a partnership between your internal resources and teams and our experts. We utilize small, focused teams - typically one to three consultants – to provide the leadership and drive you need to see initiatives through. Unlike traditional consulting models, our experts are your experts that work side-by-side with you on your behalf. Contrast our approach with the way the big consulting firms work – providing you a team of analysts to camp in your office and allowing you occasional access to the most seasoned partners in the firm.
For business executives, our approach translates to confidence that strategic initiatives get done and yield their intended value.
We apply real-world expertise to your most critical growth initiatives. Sound simple? Yes…and we intend to keep it that way.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
It’s Real World Experience that Keeps Our Feet on the Ground
We’ve dedicated the time to talk to thousands of executives about strategy, strategy execution and their leadership development needs. Throughout the process of “walking in their shoes,” we’ve formed the following beliefs which inform and guide the service we provide.
Too often, consulting relationships are built with people chock-full of experience and then handed off to junior staff. We believe that enterprise organizations hire consultants because they bring experience and expertise. At Metre22, the senior folks who sell the work do the work, giving you access to the very folks who have “been there, done that."
Failure rates in deals are oft reported. But the one factor that is most correlated with M&A success is deal experience. At Metre22, we’ve done hundreds of deals. And that matters.
In addition to experience, one of the critical factors in post-deal integration is the speed with which integration unfolds. There are two ways to tear off the bandaid. Slow and painful or fast and painful. In integrations, fast always wins.
Sure, there are surprises in every transaction after the deal is done. What’s not a surprise? That there are surprises. Productivity is interrupted. Communications get tangled. Roles become confused. Trust drops. Knowing these things will happen is a key ingredient for designing success.
M&A integration is like frying bacon naked. You know it is going to hurt. You just don’t know where. That said, you can avoid the pain associated with integrating companies if you take the right steps, especially up front in the planning process. The typical missteps are avoidable through speed, experience and a hyper-disciplined process to tackling the post-deal integration period.