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Cortus Advisors

Boston, MA, us • 5 - 9 Employees
Financial Services

Cortus Advisors (www.cortusadvisors.com)'Cortus' - to come into being, emerge, rise, grow.Cortus Advisors partners with organizations to identify and pursue new sources of growth in revenue, profitability, and entity value. Cortus engages clients on growth strategy, new business development, product/service design, customer selection, competitive dynamics, pricing strategy, market evolution, platform markets, sustainable profit loops, and thought leadership.How: To enable dramatic performance improvement, we collaborate with organizations to develop new market actions and positioning that leverage unique organizational assets and limit competitive response. The foundation of this approach involves a deep understanding of customer needs, relative attractiveness, market dynamics, and competitor positioning. What: Clients have engaged on a wide variety of initiatives, including* Growth initiatives: market entry strategies, product development and design, dynamic pricing strategies, customer selection, product platform dynamics, first-mover advantages.* Market development: navigation and engagement of market ecosystems, creation of self-sustaining profitability loops, optimizing strategic position in platform markets.* Thought leadership: design/implementation of thought leadership capabilities, creation of insight-driven market research, public policy engagement in financial services.* Executive team leadership: engagement and collaborative leadership of executive teams to design & implement new growth strategies and initiatives.Where: Cortus has deep expertise in financial services markets, including asset/wealth management, insurance, banking, capital markets, and affiliated financial services sectors. The unique methods, market insights, and strategies developed by Cortus and its clients, however, have much broader relevance and effectiveness for other industry sectors. These include technology markets, media, healthcare, distribution platforms, and emerging social media. Cortus also has experience in many developed international markets.Engagement modelsCortus can engage with your organization through a variety of flexible models designed to meet your needs and deliver highest value. Under every model we will engage frequently and collaboratively throughout the effort with project sponsors and key business leaders. Engagement models clients have used frequently include:* Lead client team: we can assemble and lead a collaborative, ad hoc client team with the necessary mix of expertise, experience, and organizational standing to be effective. These frequently span multiple functional areas and business units.* Engage senior leaders in collaboration: we can engage a group of peer leaders across the client organization by business unit, function, geography to collaborate and focus as a unified team on developing and implementing new growth initiatives.* Deliver independent results: we can take on key elements of the broader effort to deliver a more outsourced model. This is particularly appropriate for research-intensive initiatives.Why choose Cortus* Expertise: we have extensive expertise and experience in critical elements of successful growth initiatives across financial services and other sectors.* Insight: we focus on distilling actionable insights from data and expertise to drive business results. We help generate high quality, informed decisions and actions. The effort will be guided by decades of business experience, not junior teams.* High value + cost effective: we will focus directly on your organization's key objectives and needs throughout the effort with a lean, experienced team. We will not deploy large, expensive teams for extended periods beyond what is required to meet your needs, make high-quality decisions, and drive implementation.