A CEO's guide to finding your next £50 million
ArticleMost cost programmes look in the wrong place. See the four-phase framework helping UK CEOs find real, lasting margin improvement.
Turning AI, cost, regulatory and geopolitical pressure into lasting change

Your organisation is navigating AI adoption, tighter regulation, geopolitical and supply chain disruption, rising cost pressure, climate and ESG expectations, cyber and trust risks, and consumers and colleagues who expect more, faster. Meeting all of this at once, without losing momentum or people, is the real test. We help you set a clear direction, redesign the operating model behind it, and deliver it with discipline.
Decades of transformation expertise in business and consulting, applied to your toughest, most ambiguous challenges.
We design and deliver change with your people, not to them, so it sticks once we've gone.
Clear governance and measurable benefits, so ambition turns into outcomes you can evidence.
Turn approved strategy into results. Grant Thornton's Strategy Activation service helps leaders align, prioritise and deliver with pace.
Turn approved strategy into results. Grant Thornton's Strategy Activation service helps leaders align, prioritise and deliver with pace.
We don't deliver change to you; we deliver it with you. We combine practical transformation experience – across operating model, programme delivery, people and technology – with the discipline to see it through, and the empathy to bring your people with us. We start from your evidence and constraints, not a standard model, and we fold what we learn on every live programme straight back into our propositions and methods, so the next client benefits from the last.
Backed by Grant Thornton International's network, we support strategy through to mobilisation, delivery and benefits realisation – with local understanding wherever your transformation needs to reach.
“When we first engaged Grant Thornton, Greene King faced a significant challenge: a major cost-transformation target and no clear plan. From day one, the team immersed themselves in our culture, listened deeply, and helped shape an embryonic idea into a robust, enterprise-wide programme. Their professionalism and breadth of expertise were expected - but what truly set them apart was their partnership, consideration, and relentless ownership of our challenges. It never felt like working with an external consultancy; it felt like an extension of our own team.
Together, we’ve delivered Year 1 benefits over £50m and set ourselves up strongly for the next five. Grant Thornton has been our number one partner throughout this journey. The relationship we’ve formed is the reason we continue to extend and grow our partnership. We’ve loved the honesty, the challenge, and the care. We’ve felt like we are in this together.”
Efficiency & Innovation Director, Richard Hatley, Greene King.

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