Hatch Strategy and technology

Challenges

With high demand for high returns it is essential that capital-intensive businesses and project portfolios achieve their objectives and deliver on expectations for long-term sustainable results. A proactive and holistic approach is critical in managing the risks and opportunities you face. Moreover, rapidly changing digital and automation technology creates significant opportunity for innovation and new operating models, but can also add significant risk if not leveraged in an appropriate and practical way.

Drawing upon our unique array of deep advisory and technical skills and our decades of project and operational experience, we offer analysis, insights, perspectives, and recommendations to help you make decisions that will get you real results, faster and create sustained shareholder value.

Corporate strategy and business planning

Development of medium- and long-term strategic plans that make the most of existing assets, further business goals, and balance operating and financial resources. Our capabilities include:

Valuation

Bringing to light an asset’s intrinsic value.

Capital sourcing and funding planning

Advice on the right mix of capital, potential sources, and "fundability."

Site selection and gateway logistics

Determine where to invest your capital to expand your business or the best gateway to carry your product to market.

Operating model and delivery strategy

Strategic project design, procurement, and delivery options for developing projects across a spectrum of models, including public and private partnerships (P3). Robust approach to help you develop the right operating and resourcing model to best execute a differentiated strategy.

Market studies and value-in-use

Understand regional and global market trends to help you optimize your product mix ahead of competitors and maximize its economic potential.

Digital and technology road map

Innovative value-based blueprint to drive digital progress including helping you develop a strategic road map of key projects and activities across your value chain.

Climate change portfolio optimization

Assess the impact of climate change and other environmental, social, and governance factors and quantify greenhouse gas emissions so you can design, assess, and prioritize emission reduction strategies associated with your projects and investment and credit portfolios.

Blogs

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Repurposing coal-fired power plants: benefits and challenges

Todd Thomas PE and Kamran Akhtar PEng

Coal-fired power plants have played a key role in providing the electricity that has helped shape our global economy. As we transition to a low carbon world, can repurposing these coal-fired plants help us shape a new energy landscape?

Powering tomorrow’s steel mills with nuclear energy

Raf Hirmiz, Ph.D.

Is nuclear energy the answer to eliminating GHG emissions from the energy-intensive steel industry? 

Overseeing supply chain management to prevent budget blowouts

Raja Sahulhameed

Major capital projects are fundamental to organic growth in resources sectors. When calculating the value of a major project, CFOs have traditionally provided a fixed capital cost to the market, but the cost of megaprojects is becoming increasingly difficult to estimate, which is causing budget blowouts. Supply constraints for building materials and metals, a decrease in global crude oil supplies, high freight costs, and labor shortages are all contributing to uncertainty with the planning and delivery of megaprojects. As a result, organizational leaders need to become more involved in supply chain management in the current volatile market of inflated costs.

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