Further Advisory – A Boutique Management Consultancy Focused on Converting Strategic Vision into Business Reality

Business consultation services can help an organization receive an outside perspective and advice about improving their operations. Although many consulting firms are large companies with various specialties and departments, boutique consulting firms are small businesses that focus on specific industries. Their services are typically more limited than that of a larger firm, but they attract customers based on their affordability and capability to develop personal relationships with their clients. Unlike larger firms that provide consultation about an array of issues, a boutique consulting firm often focuses on a specific issue or service. Often, an experienced consultant establishes one of these firms after developing a qualified interest and expertise in a specific industry, area of knowledge or service.

Further Advisory is one such boutique management consultancy delivering extraordinary value to their clients. Their consultants average over 15 years of experience, with deep expertise in their respective fields and a breadth of consulting experience necessary for “big picture” thinking. The firm balances proven consulting methodologies with an agile approach that draws from extensive experience and delivers on expectations at an accelerated pace. They are experts in narrative development, crafting myriad data points and opinions into structured storylines that drive organizations toward action and value creation. Further Advisory achieves exceptional work by cultivating and sharing its diverse talents, backgrounds, and experiences. They reach across boundaries to meet their clients’ needs and make the company stronger

Offering Industry-Leading Management Consulting Services

Assessment and Recommendation: Whether the clients’ challenges are strategic, operational, or technical, Further Advisory brings objective, unbiased, and industry-informed perspectives to analyze, identify, and address their toughest challenges. They give CIOs, CDOs, and other tech leaders' fresh, expert perspectives and an objective baseline for their current IT environment. When large programs are failing, their diagnostic gets to the root causes quickly and offers pragmatic ways to turn things around. The firm helps product and marketing leaders understand their customers better through data-driven analytics, segmentation, channel analysis, and more.

North Star Strategy: Their clients have bold ideas and aspirations. The firm helps crystallize that thinking into a defined vision, structured objectives, and pragmatic roadmaps that build off existing assets and processes that work while leapfrogging those that don’t. They are experts in establishing a vision and set of goals that align business & tech with customer behaviors, motivations, and aspirations. The company partners to accelerate transformation towards a thriving digital service culture and world-class customer experience.

Go-to-Market Acceleration: From concept through launch, the firm advises on constructs, craft go-to-market plans, and mobilize cross-functional teams to bring new products & capabilities to customers, helping accelerate returns on investment. Companies partner with them to facilitate multi-day GTM planning workshops to kick off new product or capability launches. They work across global sales organizations to assemble product playbooks that capitalize on best practices and streamline operations. Further Advisory helps companies understand and then influence how their customers interact throughout their lifecycle. Often times major programs need a boost to get started. They provide experts to stand-up and kick-off program operations. Objectives and Key Results are the new currency in performance measurement, and their workshops help educate and establish baselines.

Digital Execution: Further Advisory helps clients build more intelligent businesses by removing friction and engineering powerful capabilities in an accelerated, flexible way, with a clear vision for differentiated success in a digital world. When companies need extra engineering capacity, their offshore partners deliver quickly, offering scale at short notice. There’s no one-size-fits-all agile transformation solution. The firm tailors the DT services to meet their client’s specific objectives and needs. From cloud strategy to cloud migration, they consult and then execute on transformational plans to keep companies ahead of the technology curve. They assess IT operations and then implement improved practices that eliminate bottlenecks and increase operational efficiency. The company supplements strategy with the offshore manpower needed to execute data migrations, cataloging, and ETL development.

Meet the Leader

Jeff Catalina is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Further Advisory. He has over 20 years of experience and deep insight into the Financial Services industry, working extensively across the B2B, consumer payments, and merchant value chains. He has expertise in developing pragmatic, execution-ready strategies that leverage technology, data, and operational capabilities to unleash business value for clients. Jeff excels at bringing go-to-market planning and execution rigor to clients’ largest and most challenging programs, helping to maximize value realized through effective management, as well as the strategic application of information technology.

Prior, Jeff was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, where among other roles he helped lead the Payments practice. He began his career with Andersen Consulting focused on web and interactive media development.

Jeff holds an MBA and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Notre Dame.

"At Further, 'boutique' doesn’t mean limited. It means we’re focused on client service, with deep relationships grounded in trust and fostered over many years."