Introduction to The Diel Group

March 2009

Prepared for:

R eal Wo r ld M an ag em en t C o n su lt in g

Copyright © 2009 by The Diel Group, Inc.

Agenda

• Background: The Diel Group

– Our Business Model

– Our Offerings

– Our Expertise

• Selected Biographies

• Next Steps

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Background: The Diel Group

Our Organization

The Diel Group forms the hub of a network of internal and external resources from which we
assemble teams to execute approaches we tailor specifically to meet your needs

 Members of our core team work with you to define and complete the engagement


 Our core team is made up of highly-experienced industry and consulting veterans


 We fill a role similar to that of an independent film producer – to qualify and define the opportunity,
assemble a team with the particular skills required, and oversee delivery


 The Diel Group maintains a broad network of resources from which to build our teams and provides
the methodologies and tools required for the project


 Like independent film producers, we believe that this model better enables us to cost effectively
deliver the high-quality, tailored work demanded by our clients


 Once the project is defined, we draw upon our network to form the full project team


 Partner/principal-level independent consultants


 Managers and staff members drawn from your firm


 A network of smaller professional services firms


 Teams and individuals from selected large consulting 
and professional services firms


 Financial services software development firms with 
on- and off-shore capabilities


 Financial and compliance system and service vendors


 Where appropriate, we also will support the recruiting and use of contract staff


 The Diel Group remains responsible for the quality and timeliness of the teams work

Films were mass produced in large film factories and exhibited in studio-owned theater chains… In contrast to the major studios, the
independent producers made hand-crafted quality films. Independents understood that masterpieces were best made by individual artists,
not studio committees. Without the studio restrictions the independents were free to break new ground with such films as Snow White and
the Seven Dwarves, Gone With the Wind, Fantasia, City Light, and Citizen Kane.

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Our Value Proposition

Our structure recalls an earlier paradigm: professional services firms with capabilities and
business models more closely aligned with their clients needs and interests

 The integrated teams we form are composed of experienced, highly skilled experts


 We forgo the pyramid structure of larger firms to staff projects with industry and consulting veterans
who can meaningfully contribute to the projects success


 You can avoid the expense, delays and frustrations imposed when your staff has to “educate” the
consulting team – on our teams the experts do the work


 Experience enables our teams to create innovative, forward-looking recommendations tailored to
your specific needs and capabilities


 Our core team members have extensive backgrounds in industry and consulting roles


 Were experienced at implementing projects in real-world corporate settings; we wont propose
solutions that cant be approved or implemented


 Our teams quickly establish credibility and team with your staff and clients


 Deliverables are structured to add value, not to fit the limited skills of junior staff


 We recognize and plan for the organizational steps required to advance a project


 Our multidisciplinary teams leverage strategic, technical and operational expertise


 Because the tough problems span functional boundaries, our teams include the cross-functional
expertise needed to integrate strategic, technical and business recommendations – were not
constrained by our firms internal organizational considerations


 As projects move through conceptual, design, planning and implementation phases, the same team
has the skills required to continue delivering value


 By controlling overhead, we are able to deliver exceptional value

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Our Approach

Our approach is designed to efficiently move from analysis through planning into
implementation of a solution expressly tailored to your needs

 We draw upon our extensive project experience to create a customized approach for each
project, one that is tailored to meet your specific objectives and constraints


 In creating a tailored approach, our leads leverage their real-world experience in creating and
executing complex workplans for a wide variety of engagement topics and structures


 The selection of resources from internal and external sources to form the project team is done in
consultation with you, not presented as a fait accompli


 Before the kickoff, we work with you to create and syndicate the structured workplan that will be
used to define, manage and report on your project


 Our project management skills ensure disciplined execution of the project workplan


 Our action bias is reflected throughout our project plans, tools and teams


 We work with you to structure deliverables that are useful within your business context – we arent
constrained by pre-defined templates or the need to deliver PowerPoint decks to keep junior staff
employed


 We take into account the reality of your business setting – including the requirement to gain
approvals and budgeting, and your organizations execution capabilities


 Our recommendations are delivered in interactive senior-level working sessions


 Senior consultants remain available on an as-needed basis to update recommendations, plans,
business models, etc. as you act upon our recommendations


 Diel Group engagements are performed by joint DGI / network / client teams


 By providing a team with seasoned leadership, we provide an effective way to leverage your
internal expertise and staff to reduce costs while increasing project impact


 We have the skills and experience to lead all project phases from initial investigations through post-
implementation reviews

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Our Service Offerings

We focus on high impact engagements, leveraging our expertise across diverse disciplines
to design and execute customized engagement approaches that meet your specific needs

 The Diel Group specializes in traditional management consulting engagements

 Significant projects that have the potential for strategic impact


 Situations where your requirements and challenges are unique, not suited to cookie-cutter project
plans or off-the-shelf solutions


 Projects that call for participation from, and interaction with, multiple disciplines within your firm;
these often include several of the following:

– Front-office Executives
– Marketing and Sales

– Operations
– Technology

– Legal
– Compliance

– Risk Management
– Transaction Execution


 Extended efforts that require significant program management expertise during both planning and
execution phases


 Illustrative qualifications include:


 Re-engineering the organization, processes and systems of a securities clearing firm


 Definition of the role, organization and processes for a regional CIO of a global bank


 Analysis of operational and compliance risks for a large investment firm


 Assisting in the remediation of compliance issues in response to regulatory dictates


 Business strategy development, including business case preparation and implementation planning
for systems, procedures and organization


 Structuring and operating program management offices for multiple complex initiatives


 Supporting the design and creation of new business units and product offerings


 Merger planning and post-merger integration at the business-unit level

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Our Expertise

Each of our core team members has significant hands-on experience working in multiple
financial industry segments, dealing with diverse topics, and using varied toolsets

Business Strategy

Corporate strategy development and execution

Alliance planning and development

Business unit strategic planning

Electronic commerce strategy

Electronic markets

Operational Effectiveness

Information Technology

IT architecture

Risk management
Cost reduction

ROI improvement

Compliance management
Process reengineering

Organizational design

Program management
Performance improvement

Technology alignment

Change management
Organizational Advisory

Process improvement

Merger integration
Operational risk

Systems selection

Communications
Compliance

Technology risk

E-Discovery
STP

e-Procurement

Channels strategy

Competitive analysis

New product development

Market entry and extension

Customer relationship management

Product and Market Strategy

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Our Real World Experience

Our consultants have worked with many of the leading firms in financial services, and the
professional services firms that support them, both as consultants and as employees…

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The Diel Group is an innovative management consulting firm focusing on the financial services industry.
Our business model is derived from the one used by independent producers in the film industry.
Members of our core team act as the producers, working with our clients to identify and qualify
appropriate opportunities. As these opportunities develop, we tap into our large network of independent
experienced resources to involve project managers (directors), methodologists (writers), and subject
matter experts to create a tailored approach (script) that meets your needs. Once the approach is
approved, we use our network of resources to identify and secure the experienced team members (the
cast) who will be best able to complete your project. Each project team is a hand-picked, one-time
group assembled specifically for the project they will be doing.

Since we dont have a dedicated staff of employees, we are under no pressure to try to force fit
(miscast) resources onto a project, but are instead free to select the best fit. This enables us to create
teams that are highly experienced in the subject matter of the project and the practices in your business
area. Because the project staff members, including our producer-leads, do not have the same firm-
building responsibilities as senior members of larger firms, they wont disappear once the project has
been sold or spend their days on internal conference calls. The Diel Group, through our assigned
producer, remains responsible for the quality and timeliness of the teams work, actively working with
you to ensure we are meeting your needs. In short, you will have the undivided attention of the full
project team.

You will also benefit from our business model which does not incent us to build a project team pyramid
with numerous junior resources who conduct inefficient interviews that annoy your team (“what is a
preferred stock?”) and create PowerPoint slides because that fits their skill set rather than because the
presentations are required.

We find that our model meets the needs of increasingly sophisticated financial service clients who have
learned from experience that the success of a project team depends upon the capabilities of the team
presented, not on the imprimatur of the firm presenting them.

Additional information about The Diel Group is available upon request, at the address below.

The Diel Group, Inc

160 Riverside Blvd, Suite 8S

New York, NY 10069

(212) 419-4300