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Consumer
Innovation is of paramount importance in the sector: companies must constantly reevaluate their relationships with today's increasingly influential consumer and deal with market challenges in the form of economic pressures, new routes to market and disruptors.
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Education
The growing influence of technology in education and the availability of massive open online classrooms means education is at an inflexion point and must adapt to a major shift in how it is both accessed and evaluated. This necessitates resilient and flexible leaders who can embrace innovation and work effectively amid uncertainty.
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Financial services
Unprecedented levels of change are shaping the future of the industry. Sophisticated digital tools and AI are creating both opportunities and threats to traditional structures. A focus on “alpha” generating products has blurred the once distinct sub-sectors and asset classes as investment firms strive to ensure they have the product range in place to best manage their clients’ assets.
The need to have a holistic view of financial services has never been greater. We have a culture driven by collaboration. We leverage internal expertise which crosses the breadth of the financial services industry, enabling us to partner with senior leaders to define future investment strategies and help create market-leading teams.
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Healthcare
The healthcare industry today faces a variety of challenges: increasing competition, constant technological innovation, government health services across the globe stretched by an expanding and ageing population and brand challenges posed by consumer access to data. The lines between consumer businesses, science, technology and service companies continue to blur and leaders must be developed from across industries and geographies with the ability to catalyse and empower change.
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Industrial and services
Connecting these industries, allows us to focus on every aspect of the delivery of product and service to the business customer. Combining operational excellence with higher quality, faster and more effective service throughout the business process will determine the winners across this sector.
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Real assets
Real assets can provide anything from an inflation linked cash flow through to a high returning investment with the protection of tangible collateral. The breadth of this asset class is reflected in the wide scope of the talent pool within this universe. We advise asset backed investors of all types on front office hiring. This spans traditional real estate and infrastructure asset classes, through to nascent strategies such as energy transitions and asset backed debt.
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Tech
Whenever technology changes how something is done, there is a need to change the human capabilities, approaches and responses around it. We work with our clients to help them respond to the ever-changing landscape within this sector, to challenge received wisdom and bring fresh thinking both from and to other industries. Agility and adaptability have never been more valuable.
As the lines between industries blur, Blackwood brings experience in each and understanding of the whole
As a single collaborative team, we combine our consultants' industry knowledge and expertise to deliver the most creative and holistic advice and solutions.
