Impact at scale: recent case studies

Enterprise operations overhead reset for a $30 billion conglomerate

Single source of truth, function level levers, Day 1 organization, and savings trackers, unlocking a 20 percent overhead impact and refreshed execution cadence

Function-by-function deep dives for a specialty chemicals company

Anchored decision rights, operation interfaces, and planning/procurement/logistics mandates to restore speed and accountability

How we partner

Diagnose fitness and focus

We start with a rapid, outside-in and inside-out assessment of your operating model—governance, decision rights, capabilities, culture, and value chain interfaces—and we benchmark it against your peers to reveal the few moves that can change the trajectory.

Redesign the operating model to enable strategy

We translate ambition into an executable blueprint: roles, interfaces, spans and layers, and decision-making for plan–source–make–deliver, commercial linkages, and enabling functions. Our approach integrates complexity, digitalization, sustainability, and network realities, bringing organizational network analysis and fit-for-purpose accelerators where helpful.

Improve effectiveness and efficiency, then build capabilities

We streamline processes and management rhythms, clarify decision rights, and reset performance metrics. In parallel, we run targeted capability improvements for leaders and teams so the new model sticks.

Reimagine operations and support to fund growth

When overhead has ballooned, we deploy an accelerated “ring fence and reduce” approach; create a single source of truth for headcount, costs, and activities; apply function-specific levers; pressure test the Day 1 organization; and build a 100-day plan plus a two-year road map.

Why Kearney?
  • Chemicals industry DNA. Our team brings deep cross-functional expertise across the chemicals value chain to tailor the right operating model based on your context.

  • Interconnected operations and business units. We understand that it’s significant to balance scale across business units, but also have the sub-sectoral focus to allow leveraging efficiencies while staying close to customers.

  • Organizational change that endures. We deliver change that sticks, creating a lasting impact through capability improvements and governance.

  • Proven overhead transformations. We use structured levers, pressure‑testing, and TMO governance to capture value without breaking the business.


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