International Business & Executive Management

The IBEM group is a leading management consulting firm. We work with executives to help them make better decisions, convert those decisions to actions and deliver the sustainable success they desire.

Why IBEM?

Successful businesses rarely happen by accident. There are many examples where companies with the best ideas, the best products and the most innovative services have failed because the “business and commercial basics” were not a living process. We provide disciplines to help focus the power of your organisation and communicate its proposition effectively. Our truly unique integrated service allows us to specialise in creating and delivering highly effective solutions, addressing present and future business challenges.

Collaboration comes first, as part of our partnership, we rely on your input to fuel our process and we remain flexible in order to arrive at the best outcome. Since you know your business best, we will turn to you throughout the project to tell us what works and what does not work for your specific audience. We take your input and refine, expand, or change course as necessary. Expert performance is about IBEM design in research, calibrate, and measurement before execution – to make sure that the changes not only fit, but also work like a high performance machine. With every decision we make, we consider what it means for you – your reputation, your budget, your shareholders, your clients, and your market.

IBEM Gulf

The Gulf region is entering a new era of vision and transformation. Across Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, organizations are embracing change that will redefine how business, innovation, and leadership come together.

In several economic sectors, the Middle East leads the world in scale, ambition, innovation and leadership.

Across family-owned business, sovereign wealth-funds, and Islamic banking and Fintech, the offices of IBEM Gulf in the Middle East serve many of the region’s largest organisations. We bring deep expertise in each of these areas spanning growth strategy, mergers and acquisitions, governance and organisation training, and operational transformation.

We help corporations in developing/shaping, building and securing their future through the creation of outstandingly successful new products and businesses based on our agile, lean and fast-track business setup that allows ideating, evolving and building fully digital-transformed, extraordinarily successful and innovative businesses in an effective, efficient and meaningful way.

At IBEM Gulf, we believe the true foundation of transformation lies in people. When leaders are empowered to think differently, act decisively, and lead with integrity, businesses evolve beyond success into significance.

Our focus on Business Transformation, Executive Training, and Entrepreneurial Leadership is built to support this evolution.

Whatever the challenge, in organisations that means building a common language of leadership at all levels to have an immediate and lasting impact on business results, not just knowledge, wisdom or behaviours

Dubai is a place where everyone fits in and brings something unique to the table. Our formula for success has been simple. Here, you’ll find a high-impact, supportive culture where immensely talented people are encouraged to be brilliant at what they do.

IBEM Gulf bring together local knowledge, global industry expertise, and deep capabilities to empower, inform, and create impact. With the right combination of excellence in our people and technology it’s easy to move from being ready-for-now to ready-for-anything.

Who do we work with?

We have successfully worked across many industry sectors. Our methodologies can be applied to any any business regardless of sector, however every industry sector has it’s own challenges. It is our unique ability to listen and understand those challenges that sets us apart from the rest.

  • Research
  • Environmental services and power technologies
  • Financial Services, Fintech
  • Technology, Media, Telecommunications
  • Information and Communications Technology
  • Mobile Technology
  • Real Time Data, Big Data and Applications
  • Leisure

What do we do?

We offer a range of business growth services that focus on developing your business and improving your organisation’s performance.

  • Evaluating a company’s critical business growth factors
  • Adding value across the company’s business strategy
  • Improving your financial health
  • Refocussing your marketing plans
  • Increasing the effectiveness of your sales process
  • Improving your operational efficiency

An IBEM review provides you with a comprehensive and detailed improvement plan tailored to your individual business. It contains specific recommendations describing precisely what your company needs to do differently to maximize its business growth. Whether you are looking to take your business to the next step or prepare it for sale, our expert advice will help you get there fast.