Advisory & Transformation Services

Investing in organizations involved in any combination of owning, building or operating complex assets and facilities requires a thorough understanding of their challenges in order to mitigate investment risk and maximize returns – regardless of the planned holding period.

FTI Consulting leverages our expertise in capital project and asset management to provide strategic advisory services focused on optimizing the capital portfolio employed while also defining the discrete investments needed to achieve our client’s core strategic objectives. Drawing upon our expertise and extensive deal experience , we advise private equity and corporate clients on strategy, investment/asset portfolio health and industry-specific opportunities to future-proof returns. Our comprehensive services include:

• Growth strategy development/screening
• CapEx portfolio optimization
• Market entry studies
• Asset/project due diligence (buy-side and sell-side)
• Decarbonization roadmap development
• Low-carbon business model evaluation
• Transaction advisory support
• Procurement advice
• Asset repurposing studies
• Fleet competitiveness assessment
• Divestment screening
• Asset valuations
• Business unit/asset carve-outs
• Decommissioning and market exit strategy

Securing safe, reliable and profitable returns across the asset lifecycle can face a variety of challenges at different stages of asset life. Effectively addressing these challenges requires deep experience across the operations, maintenance and project execution disciplines, combined with leading management consulting expertise.

FTI Consulting leverages our combined capital project and asset management expertise and world-class consulting toolkit to provide management consulting services focused on securing returns in the heart of the asset lifecycle through targeted functional or holistic asset transformation efforts, with a focus on generating quick wins to fuel the effort. Our team has the deep expertise related to operations excellence, asset management and project execution needed to advise owners and operators on topics ranging from asset transformation to improving and securing long-term asset profitability. Our comprehensive offerings include:

• Capability maturity assessment
• Improvement implementation roadmap and execution support
• Business process improvement
• Process, procedure and training development
• Enterprise commercial/operations strategy and transformation
• Organizational structure design
• Independent project reviews and root cause analysis
• Construction audit and contract compliance
• Project/program governance and oversight
• Organizational change management

Many organizations recognize the importance of adopting robust technology-enabled project delivery and asset management capabilities to compete in today’s economy. However, organizations have been slow to embark on the digital transformation journey, perhaps due to a lack of expertise, matrixed organizational structures or unclear vision shared throughout the business.

Our Technology Enablement and Data Intelligence services focus on successfully planning and delivering digital transformation engagements, moving our clients’ strategy forward around people, processes, technology and data. Our capabilities extend beyond deployment to help our clients plan, select, implement, integrate and successfully adopt cutting-edge Enterprise Portfolio Project Management and Enterprise Asset Management technology solutions for organizations aiming to maximize their capital efficiency. We also help organizations embark on their advanced analytics journey using our proven approach and, in return, begin distinguishing themselves from lagging competitors. Analytics-driven organizations can make faster, better-informed and more trustworthy decisions throughout the asset and project lifecycle, leading to improved capital efficiencies and reduced total cost of ownership.

We help clients with:

• System selection
• Business requirements
• System architecture
• Design
• Configuration
• Integration
• Training and post-go-live support
• Organizational change management
• Data and analytics maturity assessment
• Master data management
• Business intelligence
• Statistical analytics

Designing, approving and launching large-scale capital projects is only the first step in securing value across the asset lifecycle. Strategic execution and delivery of projects, combined with transformative organizational changes, are the keys to long-term success.

FTI Consulting has decades of experience supporting our clients from project inception and transformation to value generation through our Portfolio, Program and Project Management Office (“3PMO”) using a combination of our subject matter experts, traditional implementation methodologies and our digital toolkit. To help maximize ROI, the teams that assist in project and program development are the same as those executing the project/program management, assuring continuity and shared ownership. We mitigate management difficulties and project execution complexities associated with multiple data sources by maintaining a comprehensive organizational and governance structure that provides a single source of truth during program execution. Our comprehensive strategy helps clients execute projects on time and within budget. Our services include:

• Project management
• Project controls
• Construction management
• Estimating services
• Engineering management
• Scope and change management
• Contract management and controls
• Cost and schedule management
• Risk management
• Data analytics
• Progress reporting and dashboard enablement
• Project close-out

With a focus on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of capital maintenance and operations and maintenance (“O&M”) spending, our team of experts leverages well-proven processes and cutting-edge tools and technology to optimize cost, improve performance and reduce risk related to our clients’ assets.

We leverage our industry-leading asset management expertise to help our clients mature their capabilities and enable more structured, consistent and data-driven decision-making that is better aligned with their strategic objectives. By combining asset management experience with technological expertise, we empower clients to optimize the total cost of ownership and maximize lifecycle value realization from their assets. We also assist clients in their digital transformation – leveraging data and technology to drive productivity in asset operations, maintenance activities and asset performance, unlocking value through the journey from reactive to preventative, predictive and prescriptive maintenance. Our asset management offerings include:

• ISO 55001 aligned asset management services
• Center of excellence design and implementation
• Asset management strategy and planning
• Asset information strategy and management
• Reliability and maintenance strategy and program development
• Process improvement
• Margin improvement roadmap development
• Asset valuations
• Holistic asset transformation and competitiveness diagnostic