Decisions regarding geographic location exert a powerful influence on a company’s ability to maximize performance, generate revenue, and control costs. Where a company is located has a fundamental impact on its cost structure for labor, real estate, and operating factors. Geography can determine how well it can access talent, markets for goods and services, partners, and specialized service providers. The way its various components are configured relative to one another has a major impact on how well individuals can perform and how efficient processes are overall.

KLG’s sole focus is on developing strategies that deliver maximum value, create unique opportunities, and help our clients establish long-term competitive advantages.

Attracting and retaining top quality talent				Tap the right labor markets in order to ensure a plentiful supply of the necessary talent and expertise that will ultimately determine the company’s success
Dramatically reducing labor, real estate, and operating costs				Leverage the geovariability of labor, operating, and real estate costs to dramatically reduce expenses
Enhancing access to revenue and capital				Identify and access new markets for services and products as well as sources of capital
Achieving greater performance and efficiency				Improve performance by identifying situations where the co-location of functions that are currently geographically separate can have a major impact. Similarly, in M&A situations, help organizations maximize performance by rationalizing geographic configuration.
Fostering innovation				Facilitate ongoing relationships with specialized partners – other companies, groups of individual experts, and educational and research institutions – critical to developing services, products, processes, and talent.
Improving resiliency and recovery capabilities				Utilize geography to minimize susceptibility to external risk factors and ensure systemic resiliency in order to avoid business disruption whenever possible and to ensure continuity when disruptions do occur
Ensuring access to critical infrastructure				Provide the necessary physical and transportation infrastructure to satisfy operational requirements
Accessing high-value public sector business incentives				Create mutually beneficial partnerships with communities that result in lower tax burdens, grants to offset costs, legislative concessions to suit operating needs, and access to optimized sites and facilities
Establishing operations under favorable regulatory and corporate governance regimes				Leverage locations that provide regulatory and governance structures that are most suitable to the needs of the business; providing tax, operational, reporting, or revenue generating advantages

Case Studies

Please take some time to look at just a few of the many examples of how we have helped companies develop location strategies and achieve significant competitive advantages:

Credit Suisse First Boston, Global Business Center, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
Institutional Securities Operations Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Chase Credit Card Growth Strategy, Tampa, Florida
Fixed Income and Derivatives Research Center, Budapest, Hungary
Getting fired by a client … and bragging about it

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