Stricto Lato is a management consulting firm formed by a small number of
people with high professional and academic qualification, corresponding
to what the jargon calls a boutique consulting firm.
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Company background
Partner and consultant profiles
Target markets
Competitive position among consulting firms
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Company background
Stricto Lato was founded by two experienced professionals who,
while working for one of the largest and most traditional global
management consulting firms, noticed the unfulfilled demand for
high-level services at reasonable prices and under flexible project
format conditions.
In December 2001, Stricto Lato was launched with a clearly focused business
plan, rigorously checked for feasibility. Stricto Lato was trusted with client
studies almost immediately, proving the strength of its differentials:
Globally trained human resources, with strong consulting expertise;
Top-quality infrastructure resources;
Exclusive dedication from its partners;
Higher minimum seniority of human resources when compared to global consulting firms;
Competitively positioned prices.
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Partner and consultant profiles
"Only very small organizations can standardize on exceptional human resource profiles.
All others are fishing from the same lakes - and need, by definition, larger amounts of people."
Peter Drucker, in Revista Exame ed. 754, December 2001.
Paulo Janousek
Paulo holds a post-graduation in Business Administration and Finance from FGV
and a bachelor degree in Computer Science from UNICAMP.
A managing partner with Stricto Lato, Paulo had his introduction to
management consulting by working with McKinsey & Company in Brazil,
in the United States and in Canada.
Previously, Paulo held Information Technology management and development positions
with a number of companies such as HP, Solvay and Wyeth / Fort Dodge, having also
led important task forces in the Financial area.
Detailed partners curricula
are also available.
Consultants
Stricto Lato consultants are recruited among the most experienced professionals
in the marketplace.
Stricto Lato follows high standards of human resource allocation, which translate
into the following differentials:
Studies are always led directly by one of the partners, with an executive role,
and not only playing "account manager" as can be the case with larger consulting firms.
The profile of human resources can be the same as in larger firms,
but fees will be quite smaller.
Since project teams are variable costs, there is no pressure to allocate
unneeded resources, keeping teams even more cost-effective.
Stricto Lato offers enormous flexibility - and has success stories to report -
to aggregate specialist resources such as distinguished professors and technical
consulting firms, as required by the job and under previous agreement with the clients.
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Target markets
Stricto Lato offers two different value propositions, focused on two types of clients:
Large corporations. As a niche firm, Stricto Lato offers
strong advantages in cost / benefit and flexibility to carry studies that demand
human resource profiles previously available only in larger management
consulting firms.
Medium-sized companies. Stricto Lato is a viable resource to
support business strategy planning and implementation with highly-qualified consultants,
bringing along the expertise acquired while serving world-class global corporations.
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Competitive position among consulting firms
Stricto Lato is a small and highly qualified management consulting firm,
able to provide services comparable in quality to the larger and more traditional
global consulting firms (see partner and consultant profiles).
Stricto Lato cost is low because it remunerates only:
A minimum of hierarchical levels, improving the relation
of direct pay of services effectively rendered to indirect pay of management structures;
Support structures that are slim, automated, outsourced;
Only domestic, Brazilian Real-denominated costs.
Stricto Lato flexibility is superior, since the firm can
carry jobs tailored to the exact need of the client, imposing no minimum limits
on team size or project duration.
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