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While there are many management consulting organizations offering top-notch services throughout the world, PTCG Consulting is unique. The founders of PTCG Consulting saw that the Big 4 consulting firms dominated the market, despite their belief that the companies required and desired more specialized, targeted, and tailored advice and support. Large corporations are excellent sources of best practices for larger firms, as they provide the necessary structure. However, most businesses just want a staff that truly understands their objectives and can provide a customized solution—not a large workforce. The ability to collaborate closely with our clients to understand their problems and provide solutions to help them perform better is PTCG's greatest competitive advantage.
The company's founders, Mário Silva and Ana Rita Rodrigues, have backgrounds in a variety of fields, including telecommunications, finance, real estate, retail, agriculture, industry, automobiles, healthcare, and oil and gas. In order to help clients with their unique business problems pertaining to planning, management and control, change management, strategic planning, corporate finance, restructuring, project management, and particular challenges arising from the family business, PTCG Consulting is an independent management consultancy boutique. PTCG also provides interim management for firms that are going through a specific transition or that need to undergo a more sophisticated transformation. In order to help its clients with IT, tax, and legal matters, the company also maintains partnerships.
Leaders behind the success
Ana Rita Rodrigues and Mário Silva are the two founders of PTCG. They oversee the partnership as well.
Mário Silva has about 25 years of experience, 15 of which at the top management level (Board of Directors, Audit and Finance Committees, Risk Committees, and Investment Committees) of several companies, namely, in the industrial sector, commercial, family offices, and financial institutions in several countries. His project management experience, specifically in listed and private organizations, is highly relevant. Up until recently, Mário taught planning and control management as a professor at Portuguese Catholic University and as a post-university professor at Porto Business School, where he oversaw multiple programs.
Rita Rodrigues is an enthusiastic, highly focused, and tenacious individual with over ten years of experience in the finance and administrative fields. She holds an MBA from Porto Business School and graduated with a degree in management from the University of Porto's Faculty of Economics. Her career began in assurance at PwC, where she oversaw client financial audit projects across multiple industries. She joins the Financial Control team at a listed telco business two years later. After two years, she was given departmental responsibility. She later went back to work for PwC in the Transaction Services and Consulting division, where she oversaw multiple transaction projects. She started working in a family office in 2016 and held the position of project director until recently. She combined her knowledge of sound project management techniques.
Managing Uncertainties and Cost
No matter how much you pay, there's always a chance you won't get the outcomes you had hoped for when you engaged a consultant because they don't offer promises. When selecting the best consultants to assist them, businesses must exercise extreme caution. With in-depth knowledge in fields including corporate finance, strategic planning, and family business management, PTCG is well-positioned to assist its clients with their unique problems.
Many of the changes that the companies experience fall into one of these categories: some are family businesses, and they face unique challenges; some have recently gone through an M&A process, and as a result, they must manage the organizational structure change; still others have recently undergone a strategic reflection and require assistance in managing the newly designed future. Additionally, having PTCG as a team with experience in these areas adds a great deal of value to the change management process.
Because PTCG lacks the structural costs and possesses the expertise of a large management consulting firm, it feels it can provide a highly competitive solution that is completely adaptable to the demands of the organization. Additionally, the PTCG staff is totally committed to not adding to their clients' expenses. Every time, PTCG's value contribution exceeds the project's stated cost. Quality is PTCG's first priority, but they also place a high value on presenting a financial plan that is both reasonable and competitive.
Transition management that works
All industries are experiencing and will continue to experience change. The businesses that can adjust to the changes faster and more effectively will be the ones who prosper in the future. Just as in nature, the victor is typically not the largest but rather the one who can adapt more rapidly and effectively. The leaders responded, "We believe that the ability to change continuously, at speed and at scale, is now essential to high performance as we live in a world where flexibility is the key for success," when the TSR questioned them about addressing the "never-ending change" in digital transformation. We feel that an appropriate change management procedure is crucial to achieving success in a sustainable manner.
"We work with our clients to prepare them, their teams, and their organizations to transition to a desired future state," they continued. Our approach to change management is based on well-thought-out actions and activities that guarantee benefits are achieved, time and cost impacts are avoided, and self-sustaining mechanisms are developed for long-term success. In our opinion, strategy and technology can only take businesses so far; change management is essential to ensuring that desired results are achieved and maintained through genuine conversion and steadfast adoption. To gather all the necessary resources—including people—in a way that will maximize the advantages and ensure long-term success, change management is required.
There is a significant danger of failure when implementing and/or integrating new corporate strategies, technology, processes, etc. without change management. This is so that the organization's people may embrace new ways of thinking, doing, and even behaving in order to successfully implement "change" and meet goals while also reaping long-term advantages.
Mário Silva and Ana Rita Rodrigues, Founders
