Disruptive Strategy Consulting

Business leaders face disruptions: economic and geopolitical uncertainty; the impact of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing; and upended supply chains. Harnessing these forces is essential for survival and growth. EY-Parthenon Disruptive Strategy Consulting engages C-level leaders to explore bold innovations and reimagined business models for transformative growth.

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The team

Photographic portrait of Mitch Berlin

EY Americas Vice Chair, EY-Parthenon

Photographic potrait of Jeff Schumacher

Jeff Schumacher

US EY Growth Platforms Leader, EY-Parthenon, Ernst & Young LLP

Photographic portrait of Praveen Arivazhagan

Praveen Arivazhagan

Chief Venture Builder and EY-Parthenon Americas Corporate Venture Building Leader

What adopting a disruptive strategy mindset can do for you

Our EY-Parthenon teams don’t just answer the what and how questions on the CEO agenda, we give you tools to lead and help you anticipate challenges that may be months or years down the road, allowing you to develop a disruptive strategy that works in practice, not just on paper, to unlock new growth.

Combining statistical AI backed by up-to-the minute data with our extensive industry experience, our disruptive strategy teams help you take an outside in look at your company to address three key questions:

How can an organization leverage disruption as a catalyst for growth?
How can organizations rewire their business model and ecosystems to thrive amid increasing uncertainty?
When will an inflection point be reached and how can organizations win by anticipating these changes?

The EY-Parthenon approach

Tech-enabled and people centric, EY-Parthenon strategists deploy cutting edge technologies such as neuro-symbolic AI, a venture mindset and deep industry insights to unlock transformative new growth opportunities, even amid economic and geopolitical uncertainty:

Explore real examples of how the EY-Parthenon Disruptive Strategy Consulting team has helped clients

A US-based cryptocurrency trading platform wanted to understand how it could leverage decentralized finance to redefine the future of the financial ecosystem and develop new, robust business models for governance, innovation and compliance.

The EY-Parthenon Disruptive Strategy Consulting team was engaged to:

Research and envision scenarios to define the future of decentralized finance.
Explore how tokenization and digital assets can revolutionize value creation in decentralized financial ecosystems.
Assess future regulatory opportunities and pressures.
Evaluate the potential for decentralized governance models to disrupt traditional compliance and risk management.
Examine the scalability of blockchain and digital assets to support future business models and ecosystems.
Analyze how decentralized finance (DeFi) can unlock new revenue streams and reshape financial infrastructure.
Forecast the integration of decentralized technologies into mainstream financial systems and user adoption.
A manufacturer of residential and commercial industrial equipment sought new growth in smart connected product solutions, offering energy management, real-time monitoring, leak detection alerts and fleet management.

The EY-Parthenon Corporate Venture Building team helped the company:

Leverage its well-established product heritage to innovate with modular electronic controls that has built-in connectivity.
Turn customer partnerships into digital revenue streams, such as subscription revenue from installers for providing high-quality leads for parts, service, maintenance and replacement.
Build new partnerships with demand aggregators and utility companies to offset loads during peak demand periods, generating new revenue from utilities and passing the savings on to their consumers.
Pilot and incubate the new offering in its core business while leveraging customer and other owned relationships, using technology to disrupt a market where it has low market share.
Rivada Networks sought to transform access to wireless infrastructure capacity by replacing outdated spectrum auctions with dynamic scalable connectivity solutions. The aim was to democratize access as demand for it surges.

The EY-Parthenon team helped the company:

Refine and scale its connectivity trading platform by offering cross-disciplinary advice in wireless communications, FinTech, digital assets and tokenization.
Leverage Web3 technologies to support platform development, from concept to implementation.
Explore blockchain-powered solutions for configuring alternative pricing models, shared token based incentives, and smart contract real-time pricing and settlement in a future digital ecosystem.
Create a roadmap with a high level blueprint of the modules, APIs and governance needed for secure, transparent bandwidth trading as well as featured designs for a target minimum viable ecosystem and target operating model.

The result was an innovative technology platform that can help bring efficiency, transparency and flexibility to network capacity management.
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The EY-Parthenon Disruptive Strategy Consulting team

Mitch Berlin

EY Americas Vice Chair, EY-Parthenon

Dedicated to finding and capturing the most value from every transaction. Passionate advocate for diversity and inclusiveness as the cornerstones of successful teams and businesses.

New York, NY, United States

Jeff Schumacher

US EY Growth Platforms Leader, EY-Parthenon, Ernst & Young LLP

Neuro-symbolic AI leader, Consumer technology and innovation veteran. Business strategy, innovation, investment, venture development.

Los Angeles, CA, United States

Praveen Arivazhagan

Chief Venture Builder and EY-Parthenon Americas Corporate Venture Building Leader

Venture builder, P&L architect, innovator, storyteller.

New York, NY, United States

Igor Mikhalev

EY-Parthenon Partner, Strategy and Transactions, EY-Parthenon Adviseurs B.V.; EY-Parthenon Europe West Head of Emerging Technologies Strategy; EY-Parthenon Netherlands AI Strategy Lead

Deep strategy. Deep tech. Creative and visionary. Hands-on yet big-picture thinker.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Courtney Rickert McCaffrey

EY Global Geostrategy Insights Leader; Director, Business and CXO Insights, Ernst & Young LLP

Geopolitical analyst and strategist. Creative methodologist. Proud feminist. Passionate about generating insights to help executives make better-informed decisions.

Washington, DC, DC, United States

David Edelheit

Americas Immersive Strategy & Transformative change Leader, Creator of The Toughest Opponent, Ernst & Young LLP

Strategy disruptor. Growth architect. CEO advisor. Builder of billion-dollar bets. Creator of immersive strategy experiences. Global leader reshaping how firms grow, compete and win.

Chicago, IL, United States

Learn more about what makes disruptive strategy different

Disruptive strategy leverages new ways of thinking about your business. With new business models augmented by cutting-edge proprietary AI tools that help make accurate, explainable predictions and a deep understanding of the geopolitical forces shaping this world to find a growth path that goes beyond business as usual.

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