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1. Communication

Many organizations perform well, serve their clients, achieve their goals, and give back to the communities where they operate. However, they face challenges sustaining a recognizable place in the marketplace because of the ever-evolving communication landscape and their inability to show measurable outcomes related to their communication activities. With time, they fallbehind because they lack the right communication strategy, companynarrative and/or choose the wrong tactics to drive their strategy ahead. FORWARD realizes that Communication is an evolving art. We follow digital mediatrends closely and are then able to recommend new branding perceptions, data-driven decisions, and messaging techniques, which put organizations ahead of fierce competition. FORWARD’s experts build their conclusions based on in-depthdata analysesto support organizations and cultivate their sustainable growth to outperform competitors and cement their market position.

3. Business Law

In a complicated and stifled investment environment, businesses often struggle with several matters related to proper legal engineering and a flexible administrative status. These matters that extend from simple registration to appropriate taxation methods, labor laws, mergers and acquisitions necessitate a personalized counseling strategy to serve the best interest of the business. Beyond the micro-oriented needs of individual enterprises, FORWARD also offers an in-depth general analysis through studies of the legal and regulatory environment for companies in the MENA region. It can provide the relevant public and private entities a vision for the needed legal and regulatory reforms to propel and incite a better entrepreneurial culture and climate in domestic markets, that stem economic growth, and higher employment rates.

5. Strategy and Change Management:

At FORWARD, we realize that no organization can perform efficiently without having a well thought and clear strategy. We follow arigorous methodology that combines best practices in strategy design and governance, project portfolio management, organizational change and performance scorecarding. We support organizations to develop their strategy as a decision framework throughout itsentire lifecycle from planning to execution to ensure all actions share a strategic ‘family resemblance.’ Using this approach, Forward addresses the common root causes of failed strategies while retaining, or even increasing, the value of existing investments in various management techniques.

2. Economic and Private Sector Development

Economies in the MENA region are struggling to keep up with the developed world. Despite differences in the geopolitical situations, most of the Middle East and North Africa countries share the same challenges and are grouped under the same general classification. Except for a few countries in the region which are rich in natural resources and generally enjoy political stability, most countries commonly suffer from stressed economies, high unemployment rates (particularly amongst the youth), challenging investment climates and tough business environments. FORWARD has a pool of regional economic experts who have worked in various countries and are specialized in assisting governments in formulating strategies and drawing necessary policies to jump startstressed and evolvingeconomies. Within the Private Sector Development field, FORWARD’s experts have developed national MSME’s strategies, led Entrepreneurship driven initiatives, and supported Credit Facilities programs to the private sector within the MENA region.

4. Digital Transformation

At FORWARD, we realize the importance of digital transformations for organizations to keep thriving. Traditional and ordinary management styles, products, and services are no longer viable to sustain any organization’s lifecycle, whether private or public. FORWARD’s experts in Digital Transformation across various industries and organizations can support clients by analyzing their needs and then designing bespoke strategies to implement Design Thinking Methods and present solutions for organizations that enable them to preserve their place in the market and optimize their services, production, and knowledge.

6. Supply Chain Management & Procurement:

At Forward, we realize the importance of supply chain management in supporting any business strategies and activities starting from inbound logistics, operations activities, outbound logistics, and required follow up services after projects closeouts, according to organizations predefined policies and procedures and/or procurement of national and international best practices. We help organizations in defining their projects’ needs, servicing their needs in a timely accurate and cost effective delivery, all the while monitoring service providers to ensure the delivery of needs properly through contract management and risk managementto prevent bottlenecks, procurement of the right resources at the right time and best values, and deliver the best solutions optimizing business needs. We are also able to provide support in the development of organizations procurement policies and operating procedures utilizing international procurement best practices.