CICL’s Business Development & Strategy practice helps founders, executives and boards turn vision into clear choices, resilient business models and disciplined execution.
We cover the full strategy cycle, from understanding your context to supporting disciplined implementation.
Market research, internal data and financial analysis—so decisions are not based on wishful thinking.
Designed to give founders, executives and investors the clarity, structure and confidence they need.
Our Business Development & Strategy work is designed for decision makers who want to move beyond intuition and fragmented plans.
Leaders formalising growth beyond intuition and needing structured strategy, models and governance.
Leadership groups that require clearer priorities, trade-offs and oversight across the organisation.
Organisations facing new markets, product lines or geographies and needing scalable structures.
Institutions modernising their business models, brand, processes or performance management.
Stakeholders needing clearer visibility into portfolio companies for growth, risk and governance decisions.
We often meet organisations that are working very hard, but not always in the same direction. The patterns are familiar.
You have something valuable, but your markets, segments and value proposition are not clearly defined or communicated.
Multiple revenue ideas exist, but there is no coherent model for how value is created, delivered and captured sustainably.
High-level documents exist, but they do not translate into specific projects, owners, timelines and metrics.
Your brand, messaging and visual identity no longer reflect where the organisation is or where it is going.
Operational processes consume time, money and goodwill, with frequent errors, delays and rework between teams.
Models exist mainly for presentations—not as tools to test assumptions, scenarios and capital decisions.
Boards and investors worry about the integrity of records, controls and reporting, especially during growth or change.
Turn your strategy from intention into execution with data-driven insights, scalable frameworks, and disciplined implementation.
Together, these services cover the full path from insight to design, execution and review—so strategy becomes a living discipline, not just a document.
We combine internal data, customer feedback and market intelligence to help you choose your battles wisely and ground decisions in reality.
Learn moreClarify how your organisation creates, delivers and captures value, including revenue streams, pricing logic, cost drivers and governance.
Learn moreTranslate mission and vision into clear strategic priorities, measurable objectives, owners, timelines and review rhythms.
Learn moreRefine positioning, messaging and visual identity so customers, partners and talent recognise who you are and why you can be trusted.
Learn moreMap current processes, identify bottlenecks and design leaner workflows to reduce errors, speed up delivery and improve collaboration.
Learn moreBuild investor-grade models and scenarios that show how your business behaves under different assumptions and growth plans.
Learn moreIndependent, structured reviews of financial and operational records, with practical recommendations for remediation.
Learn moreOur work is collaborative and context-aware. We challenge assumptions, but always within the reality of your market, constraints and ambition.
We clarify where your organisation is today, where you want to go, and what constraints you are working with—including market, regulation, funding and people.
We gather and synthesise data—from internal reports and financials to customer feedback and market signals—to confirm patterns and challenge assumptions.
Together, we shape your strategic direction, business model, brand framework or process blueprint, tied to clear priorities and trade-offs.
We do not leave you with a slide deck. Depending on scope, we support implementation through reviews, dashboards, playbooks and working sessions with your teams.
Strategy is not one-and-done. We help you design review cycles that keep your plans alive, responsive and measurable over time.
Across engagements, clients typically gain sharper focus, stronger models and increased confidence among stakeholders.
Clarity on core markets, offerings and positioning so teams know where to concentrate effort and investment.
Strategy articulated in a way that leaders, managers and staff can understand, cascade and act on.
Revenue logic, cost structures and operating models that are resilient under different scenarios.
Better-designed processes and rhythms that reduce failure points and support consistent execution.
Models and dashboards that support capital allocation, fundraising and board-level decision making.
Staff, boards and investors gain more confidence in the direction, systems and reporting of the organisation.
Focused assessments of your current strategy, business model, processes or portfolio to identify gaps and opportunities.
End-to-end projects to design or refresh strategy, models, brand frameworks and critical processes.
Retainer-based support for executives and boards, including periodic reviews, sounding-board sessions and independent perspectives.
Not necessarily. We help you clarify vision and strategic direction as part of our work, especially where leadership has ideas but needs structure and alignment.
Yes. While many clients engage us across multiple areas, we also run focused projects—for example, market research, financial modelling or process optimisation only.
We collaborate closely with internal teams, sharing frameworks, tools and analysis. Our role is to add capacity, structure and external perspective—not to replace them.
Depending on scope, projects can range from 4–6 weeks for focused reviews to several months for full strategy, model and process redesigns, with agreed milestones.
It may be a strategy and structure problem—not effort. Book a conversation with CICL to map where to focus first.