We find the value. Then we stay to deliver it.
Acuvon is a boutique management consulting firm. We mine the value levers hidden in your business, quantify the potential, then set up and run the Transformation Office that converts it into results.
Strategy that names its number, and an engine that delivers it.
Most transformations fail in the gap between the plan and the P&L. Our model closes that gap with two connected engagements.
Mining Value Levers
A comprehensive analysis of the levers in your business: current state, quantified potential, and the ideal mix for sustainable growth across revenue, cost and capital.
How it works → 02 · DeliverTransformation Office
A structured program of internal champions and our consultants, driving initiatives with start-up rigor: governance, change management, and KPI tracking until value lands.
How it works →Deep expertise where operations make or break the business.
Four core sectors, backed by 18+ years of work for governments, sovereign funds and category leaders across India, KSA and the UAE.
Fintech & Financial Services
Digital payments, investing platforms, banking and insurance, building scale, compliance and unit economics together.
- Fintech scale-up & transaction advisory
- Performance management for BFSI
- Digital & analytics transformation
Healthcare & Pharma
From national health systems to providers and distributors: supply chain, operations and patient-centric transformation.
- Health system & ministry programs
- Supply chain & logistics excellence
- Provider performance improvement
Consumer: Retail · FMCG · QSR
Multi-site, margin-tight businesses where small operational gains compound: stores, restaurants, distribution and D2C.
- ZBB & cost transformation
- Store / restaurant performance systems
- Network, supply chain & expansion
Logistics & Supply Chain
Ports, freight, 3PL and last-mile, where network design, asset utilization and cost-to-serve decide the margin.
- Network, corridor & growth strategy
- Cost-to-serve & route-level P&L
- Control towers, forecasting & AI routing
Your AI partners: 10+ accelerators, ready to deploy.
Most AI programs stall between the demo and the P&L. We calibrate the architecture, pick the use cases worth building, redesign the workflows around them, and co-drive implementation until the value shows up in the numbers.
The work speaks in outcomes, not decks.
ZBB and balanced scorecard implementation for an international pizza QSR chain
National vaccine supply chain management for government entity during the pandemic
Performance turnaround for a global solar products company operating across 70 countries
Thinking we publish before clients pay for it.
How digital twins are reshaping strategic supply chain planning
AcuLens · ForecastingBottom-Up Forecasting: the growth engine for services and people-based businesses
AcuLens · Change ManagementEmbedding Change: the missing link in transformation success
Sharpness of vision and thought, converted into reality.
Acuvon is a management consulting firm built around one discipline: name the number, then deliver it. For 18+ years across India and the Middle East we have worked with sovereign funds, regulators and ministries, and with founders we've backed from start-up to unicorn.
Partners who work on engagements, not above them.
Sandeep Uppal
Co-Founder & Managing PartnerA seasoned entrepreneur and industry stalwart with two decades in consulting. Before co-founding Acuvon, Sandeep established and led the Analytics team at McKinsey & Co.
Hareet Arora
Founding Member & Sr. PartnerThe youngest partner, with over 12 years of expertise in strategy development, operational excellence and profitability enhancement, leading several transformation and value-creation mandates.
Fadi Dole
Associate Partner & General ManagerA business transformation expert with 18+ years in digital transformation and operations management. In 2020, Fadi helped establish Acuvon Arabia, contributing significantly to the firm's growth.
Values which define our DNA
Built on meritocracy, integrity and truly outstanding peers.
From top colleges to industry veterans: a peer group that enables deep learning, and a five-role ladder with criteria that are visible at every level. Profit sharing starts at Engagement Manager.
How much value is sitting unmined in your business?
A first conversation costs nothing. We'll tell you honestly whether there's a number worth chasing.
Start the conversationMining Value Levers
A 4-8 week diagnostic that scans the business across the value levers and returns a quantified, prioritised map of where the value sits and how to capture it.
What we do
- Baseline the P&L, balance sheet and operational KPIs against internal and external benchmarks
- Scan all eight levers to locate the gaps between current and potential performance
- Size every opportunity bottom-up, with owners, effort and time-to-value
- Prioritise the ideal lever mix for sustainable growth, not just quick wins
- Hand over a sequenced roadmap the Transformation Office can run from day one
What changes
- A named numberThe total value at stake, quantified and signed off with your team
- A sequenced roadmapInitiatives ranked by impact, feasibility and speed
- Decision-ready in weeksBoard-level clarity within weeks
Transformation Office
A structured delivery engine (your internal champions working alongside our consultants) that runs the roadmap with start-up rigor until the value lands in the P&L.
What we do
- Stand up governance: cadence, decision rights and one scoreboard for the program
- Pair internal initiative champions with Acuvon consultants on every workstream
- Track initiatives from idea to banked value with stage-gates and KPI dashboards
- Run change management: leadership alignment, communication, capability building
- Escalate blockers fast and re-prioritise as the facts change
What changes
- Value in the P&LInitiatives tracked to financial sign-off, not activity reports
- Capability that staysChampions who can run the engine after we leave
- One version of truthA live scoreboard from the boardroom to the floor
Growth Tactics & Strategy
Where the next phase of growth comes from (markets, products, pricing and deals) with the tactics to capture it.
What we do
- Market and category opportunity scans, sized and prioritised
- Strategy interventions with clear choices and trade-offs
- Corporate finance support: business plans, fundraise readiness, M&A
- Commercial tactics: pricing, salesforce effectiveness, channel expansion
What changes
- A growth agenda with numbers attachedEvery option carries a value and an owner
- Investment cases leadership can act onFrom market signal to board decision
- Faster strategic decisionsEvidence replaces opinion in the room
Performance Management
The operating rhythm that converts strategy into daily action: targets, reviews and accountability at every level.
What we do
- KPI architecture and benchmarking against the best in class
- Target cascading from corporate strategy to individual scorecards
- Command centers and a business review cadence that moves numbers
- Incentive linkage: KPI-tied payouts, designed fairly
What changes
- 100% of strategy cascadedStructured casdade of the KPIs from Board to front line staff
- Reviews that move numbersScientific cadence that helps drive decisions, eliminate blockers, and drive the transformation forward
- Visible accountabilityOne scoreboard from CEO to the front line
Digital & Automation
A pragmatic digital roadmap, then the RPA, AI/ML and Gen-AI automation that actually ships.
What we do
- Digital maturity assessment and a sequenced roadmap
- RPA for high-volume, rule-based workflows
- AI / ML and Gen-AI use cases built on your own data
- Workflow redesign and adoption so the tools get used
What changes
- Manual effort out of core processesHours returned to higher-value work
- Models in productionDecisions supported by live data, not gut feel
- A backlog ranked by valueDigital spend follows impact, not novelty
BI & Analytics
From descriptive to predictive to prescriptive: analytics that changes the next decision, not just reports the last one.
What we do
- Data foundations and a single source of truth
- Executive dashboards and self-serve BI
- Forecasting, propensity and optimisation models
- Analytics operating model: teams, tools and governance
What changes
- One number set for leadershipDebates about the data end; debates about the decision begin
- Forward-looking callsDemand, pricing and risk anticipated, not explained
- Less assembling, more actingReporting effort cut so teams can respond
Process Transformation
End-to-end process design, improvement and re-engineering, built around the customer and stripped of waste.
What we do
- Process mapping and bottleneck diagnosis across functions
- Redesign and SOP standardisation organisation-wide
- Service-level and turnaround-time improvement
- Digitisation-ready process architecture
What changes
- EfficiencyDrive organizational effiency through right processes
- Consistent executionThe same standard at every site, every shift
- A base automation can build onClean processes before clever tools
Operating Model Design
Structure, governance and ways of working re-imagined so the organisation can deliver the strategy.
What we do
- Org design with spans-and-layers review
- Governance and decision rights that unblock delivery
- Roles, capacity and capability mapping
- Shared services and center-of-excellence design
What changes
- Clear ownership for every outcomeNo orphan KPIs, no duplicated mandates
- Leaner without losing controlStructure follows value, not history
- An organisation built to deliverThe model matches the strategy it serves
Continuous Improvement
Lean, Six Sigma and zero-based budgeting: operational excellence as a habit, not a project.
What we do
- Zero-based budgeting across G&A and controllable spend
- Lean / Six Sigma waste elimination on the floor
- Performance dialogues and idea pipelines that keep improving
- Cost governance that keeps the savings banked
What changes
- Profitability upliftQuantified P&L validated uplift in profitability
- A cost culture that outlasts usOwned by line managers, not consultants
- Savings tracked to the P&LBanked value, not announced value
Change Management
The lever that makes the other seven stick: leadership alignment, communication and capability building through the change.
What we do
- Change-readiness and stakeholder mapping upfront
- Leadership alignment and a visible sponsorship cadence
- Communication and engagement plans by audience
- Capability building and adoption tracking to the last mile
What changes
- Adoption measured, not assumedUsage and behaviour tracked like any KPI
- Managers equipped to leadThe change is carried by the line, not the program
- Fatigue managed earlyMomentum protected across the full journey