COO Capex Strategy:
Optimizing capital allocation for operational excellence
Driving efficiency, reliability, and performance through smarter capex decisions
As COO, you’re asked to deliver more, greater output, efficiency, and reliability while managing tighter budgets and shrinking timelines.
We help COOs improve capital allocation across complex industrial systems, ensuring that every Capex decision supports uptime, cost control, and long-term value creation.
Making capital decisions that reflect operational reality
Behind every missed target or recurring operational constraint, there's often one root cause: capital is not being allocated where it actually matters.
Traditional capital allocation methods evaluate projects in isolation, often leading to operational inefficiencies, unnecessary costs, and misaligned investments. We take a unique, whole-system approach to capital allocation:
Optimizing capital investments across plant networks: driving efficiency, cost reduction, and smarter resource utilization.
Maximizing enterprise-wide cash flow impact: moving beyond isolated project ROI to focus on company-wide financial and operational performance.
Enhancing asset performance and reliability: ensuring higher uptime, improved maintenance strategies, and long-term equipment value.
Aligning capital allocation with operational goals: supporting production targets, capacity planning, and sustainable growth.
Eliminating inefficiencies & improving strategic agility: making faster, data-driven capex decisions that enhance long-term resilience and competitiveness.
Proven capex strategy. Measurable results.
Our Capex Strategy has supported COOs and operations leaders at
over 1,000 production sites across 70+ countries, helping them make capital decisions that drive reliable execution, long-term efficiency, and resilient asset performance.
Rooted in decades of practical insights in capital-intensive industries, our whole-system approach helps teams reduce downtime, eliminate waste, and optimize capital across complex asset networks.
Optimizing capex for maximum operational efficiency across industries
With over 30 years of track record, we’ve supported COOs and operations leaders improve capex planning and execution across complex industrial systems — improving planning, alignment, and long-term performance.
Our work spans major sectors, including:
- Metals & Mining
- Steel
- Copper
- Pulp & Paper
- Wood Products
- Energy Production
- Packaging
- Food
- Petrochemicals
- Downstream operations
- and more
