About

8cubed is a boutique corporate advisory firm that can assist boards and executive management to achieve positive outcomes for their stakeholders.

8cubed and its principals have direct experience advising organisations in driving and delivering growth via implementation of strategic projects ranging from a few million dollars in value to programs exceeding $10 billion in resulting Enterprise Value.

Driving corporate value in an ever evolving world can be a challenge. Innovating, Integrating and Generating are essential elements in capturing value.

INNOV8

‘Disruption’, ‘cloud’, ‘subscription based’, ‘as a service’, ‘apps’ are all terms we hear on a daily basis in relation to innovation. At 8cubed we look beyond these catch phrases to see what are the opportunities within a business, its industry and the economy more broadly to identify structural changes that are occurring or can occur and can be harnessed to create competitive advantage.

Essentially, we work to help companies address the “so what should we be doing?” question.

INTERGR8

So often though, organisations identify the opportunity but then just say “well, our team should be able to do that, let’s just incorporate that into business as usual”… but business as usual is how the company is where it is today.

8cubed is experienced in identifying the “how” not just the “what”… identifying and managing changes required within an organisation to enable an organisation to implement its identified strategic innovative idea. Achieving this may require internal changes or integrating external businesses into existing operations or creating completely new operating teams to deliver the new innovation.

GENER8

Staying the course while adjusting for the variations that occur is essential to realising the value … no growth strategy is a set and forget proposition. 8cubed works with its clients beyond the innovate and integrate phases to ensure plans are bedded down and value is generated for the business and its shareholders.

To ensure outcomes are attained, 8cubed can assist by providing periodic check-ins and undertaking measurement of progress and attainment of forecast benefits, as well as performing mid-plan reviews and, where necessary, transition realignments, to name just a few areas.

Services

OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENT

All growth strategies impact the operations of a business. Assessing the changes required and developing a plan for the implementation of these changes is essential to delivering against an organisation's strategy.

Operational Systems are often a key element in any operational improvement program as they provide the framework on which a business can transform its day-to-day business delivery.

8cubed has supported clients to identify and implement operational improvements including system upgrades and overall operational delivery transformation.

INVESTMENT DUE DILIGENCE & ANALYSIS

Understanding the risks and opportunities of any investment is essential in realising the maximum potential that could arise and managing the downside exposure. 8cubed has worked with clients on numerous due diligence engagements encompassing commercial and operational assessments to identify strategies and opportunities to ensure value generation post investment.

Investments may be external injections of capital by Private Equity firms, corporate entities looking to acquire a business or alternatively, an internal capital investment by an organisation in itself in order to deliver against a growth strategy.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE

Managing the Innovation, Integration and Generation phases is often a full-time role in itself ... organisations who attempt to undertake this as part of business as usual often do not succeed. Establishing a dedicated Project Management Office (PMO) with skilled and experienced resources has been proven to be an essential element of a successful value generating growth strategy.

8cubed has real-world experience leading value generating projects. This includes post-merger integration following an acquisition, development and implementation of a business transformation project, or managing the deal process through to an IPO.

OPERATIONAL INTEGRATION

Be it as part of an acquisition or as part of an organic growth strategy, organisational alignment and restructure is often required to achieve end-to-end integration of an organisation's operations. 8cubed can assist clients to ensure operational integration is planned and managed in order to achieve the desired outcomes.

8cubed has worked with multi-nationals and domestic organisations to deliver operational integration across their organisations and portfolio investments following an acquisition or when readying for a sale or share market listing.

Contact us

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Say hello

+61 407 936 858
rhughes@8cubedgroup.com.au

Postal details

PO Box 421 Grange Qld 4051