The challenge
Globalisation, competition, high expectations and new and unconventional rules, are the main features of economic life in this decade. The development of the European single market, with the opening of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the former Soviet Union, India and China, has increased the international aspect of trade and intensified competition across all sectors.
New promising technologies and over-responsive capital markets have led to extremely fast growth but have also exposed the limitations of corporate governance and financial controls. Strategies and structures need to be reinvented and the balance between expectations and cash flow re-established.
The Public Sector has had a major role to play in the new economic landscape. Shifting its role away from direct involvement into policy and regulation, it has stimulated new developments. Institutional reform, privatisation, regulation, value for money and renewed focus on the economic aspects of policy have been instrumental in changing the role of the state, from an administrator or producer to a facilitator in a market environment. The deregulation and liberalisation of markets in Europe and the transition to market-based systems in Central and Eastern Europe and CIS have created pressing needs for new institutions and the application of new policies.
In such demanding conditions, where competition is being redefined and Europe embraces tens of millions more people, our clients demand expert advice. Their problems are both complex and explicit in their need for practicality, speed and realism.
Growth is an imperative, but not sufficient any more; profits must be adequate to remunerate shareholders' capital and to enable continuing expansion into the future. Competitive strategy, appropriate organisation and processes, responsive human resources, strong corporate culture and suitable financing are essential for the long-term success of a business. At the same time, it is vital for an enterprise to be able to implement and manage change in order to move forward.
KANTOR systematically adapts to changing needs, to successfully tackle the latest challenges, both at the small scale of the enterprise and at the large scale of government and non-governmental institutions.