GS&Partners by Giuseppe StiglianoGS&Partners by Giuseppe Stigliano

Advisory

Build a business customers value and competitors struggle to replicate.

Senior counsel for leadership teams, shaped around a specific decision or transformation. Long-term partnerships on three strategic priorities — and a team that stays while you act on what we decide together.

Who it is for

Leaders who own the decision, not just the brief.

01


CEOs and boards

Facing a strategic choice where the cost of being wrong is high and the internal view is too close to the problem.

02


Executive teams

Who need to align around one strategic language and move faster from plans to decisions and execution.

03


CMOs and strategy leaders

Who want strategy, brand, customer and execution connected rather than managed in separate rooms.

Three strategic priorities

Where we help leaders decide and act.

01


B2Cization

Rethink the role of intermediaries, strengthen customer relationships, and decide where direct engagement creates genuine competitive advantage.

  • Which parts of the customer relationship are we renting from someone else, and what does that cost us in margin and in knowledge?
  • Where does going direct create real advantage, and where does it only add cost and conflict with the partners we depend on?
  • What has to be true operationally — data, logistics, service, pricing — before direct engagement pays for itself?

02


AI and the business

Understand how AI reshapes value creation, competitive dynamics, and business models — and identify where to act.

  • Which parts of our value chain does AI make cheaper, and which parts does it make strategically irrelevant?
  • Where does it strengthen our position, and where does it lower the barrier for everyone else to do what we do?
  • What do we build, what do we buy, and what do we deliberately decide not to automate?

03


Superior customer experience

Turn customer experience from a functional responsibility into a source of differentiation and sustainable business performance.

  • What do customers actually value, as opposed to what our internal metrics reward us for improving?
  • Which parts of the experience would competitors find genuinely hard to copy, and are we investing there?
  • How does experience connect to the numbers the board reads — retention, pricing power, cost to serve?

How an engagement works

Four stages, agreed before we start.

01


Frame

A first conversation and a short written brief of the decision at stake, agreed with you before any work begins.

02


Diagnose

Evidence from your own business: numbers, customers, competitors, and candid conversations inside the organisation.

03


Choose

A recommended path, the options we rejected, and what would have to be true for us to be wrong.

04


Embed

We stay through implementation until the owner on your side can carry it without us.

Selected work

Decisions we have helped leaders make.

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Contact

Tell us what you are deciding.

A few lines about the decision in front of you is enough to start. One of the partners will reply within two working days.