Post-merger operations simplified in 3 months, after $18M spent elsewhere

Three years after purchasing two smaller competitors, the executive team was still struggling to see the cost savings of consolidation. Two other strategy consulting firms were engaged; after $18M and six months with limited success, the client ended those contracts early. The COO recommended calling WGA.

Aerospace and defense consolidations answer to demanding customers and regulators while integration proceeds, which narrows the room for disruption. The savings case that justified the acquisitions was aging with every quarter, and leadership needed the savings visible before the next planning cycle.

In three months, WGA developed the strategy that simplified the client’s operational processes, merged overlapping business systems and consolidated service offerings across its international operations.

The ninety days were structured around decisions rather than deliverables. Each fortnight closed a set of integration questions, process ownership, system survivorship, service portfolio, and converted them into implementation plans with named owners. WGA brought the cross-border experience to move through international operations quickly, and the strategy was written as an execution document: what merges, what closes, who decides, by when.

Results as the client recorded them, in its own operating metrics: Operational processes simplified and overlapping systems merged

Service offerings consolidated across international operations: Delivered in 3 months, following $18M spent elsewhere over 6 months

WGA retained as the client’s ongoing strategy partner