| Information and Media Client's Challenge... |
| New pre-IPO Internet business was concerned about on-time launch and achieving demanding goals in technology and marketing breakthrough. It was important to immediately focus and align founder and management with the Board of Directors, alliance partners, investors and employees, while identifying and executing new critical strategic initiatives. |
| Our Approach... |
 Analyzed operating strategy with emphasis on competition, marketing, sales, technology, operations, finance and performance goals. |
| Guided senior leadership team to produce a set of interdependent operating and business plans sensitive to both fast-changing competition and technology. |
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| Life Sciences Client's Challenge... |
| Publicly traded business, based on both leading-edge technology and life sciences processes, had stopped growing, lost market share and leading sales people. Board, primary investor and new CEO were determined to restructure management, talent and management processes to recapture market share, growth momentum and capacity to meet financial goals. |
| Our Approach... |
| Analyzed: management's goals, competitive intelligence, and best-practices. Interviewed customers, management and individual contributors to ensure strategy was sound. |
| Guided senior management in establishing and adequately resourcing strategic initiatives essential to success. |
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| Life Sciences Client's Challenge... |
| Services being delivered were unacceptable to Board members in terms of responsiveness, quality, cost-effectiveness and stakeholder respect. Fast-changing technology was not embraced or employed. |
| Our Approach... |
| Analyzed: best-practices, economics, competitive intelligence, evolving technology and marketplace needs. |
| Designed and assisted during multi-year implementation of new enterprise which is viewed today as role-model in terms of effectiveness and customer and stakeholder satisfaction. |
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| Information and Media Client's Challenge... |
| New CEO and Chairman for this Internet enterprise was committed to fast-track launch of IPO, international growth and pacesetting alliances and acquisitions while strengthening technology, marketing, product development and financial management infrastructure and talent. |
| Our Approach... |
| Analyzed: competitive intelligence, business economics, management's growth goals, best-practices and perspective of members of Board, principal investors and senior leadership team. |
| Designed and guided the implementation of strengthened technology, organization, talent and management processes and supported management during and following successful IPO. |
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| Professional Services Client's Challenge... |
| CEO of merged US enterprise was committed to success, but concerned about the prospects, given the direction of the foreign parent in terms of organization structure and mandated policies and practices. |
| Our Approach... |
| Analyzed: competitive threats, best-practices and management's quantitative and qualitative goals. |
| Established implementation management process, resources and organization and operations plans. |
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| Technology/Life Sciences Client's Challenge... |
| The senior executive of global enterprise was committed to correcting the direction and public reaction to a strategic initiative that had been implemented ineffectively and had then drawn unfavorable international press. |
| Our Approach... |
| Analyzed management's intent, goals, and the technology and staffing resources devoted to the failed strategy. Interviewed over 100 managers, individual contributors and stakeholders. |
| Developed and guided the early stages of implementation of organization, IT, policy, staffing and operations restructuring to ensure strategy implementation success and that global opinion about failure would begin to be mitigated. Changes involved a tenfold increase in resources. |
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| Information and Media Client's Challenge... |
| Foreign parent was concerned about vitality and viability of US acquisition that was losing market share and key accounts and struggling with new product development and off-plan financial performance. |
| Our Approach... |
| Analyzed: best-practices, competitive intelligence, management competence and goals. |
| Designed and guided the implementation of a multi-phased company-wide restructuring involving management talent and processes, R&D initiatives, product management, technology, finance and human resources. |
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| Information and Media Client's Challenge... |
| Foreign parent was concerned about viability of acquired multi-billion dollar enterprise considering fast-changing technology that might destroy the business' economics and underlying value proposition. |
| Our Approach... |
| Interviewed and analyzed the perspective of over 100 global stakeholders and opinion-leaders, customers and competitors. |
| Established a road-map-for-action to mitigate enterprise-threatening obstacles-to-success involving: policy, process, governance, structure, partnerships, R&D and technology. Client is evolving into exemplary world leader. |
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| Technology Client's Challenge... |
| Global enterprise's senior management were certain their IT leadership, infrastructure, resources and performance were failing to reflect competitive superiority when superiority was a strategic imperative. |
| Our Approach... |
| Analyzed: management's growth strategy, global best-practices and the options-for-action interviewing over 50 senior executives. |
| Planned and guided implementation of early stages of organization and operations restructuring to improve effectiveness of IT talent and technology resources, to ensure IT enhancements were sound, market and business focused and implemented effectively. |
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| Technology Client's Challenge... |
| CEO was committed to creating a growing, best-in-class enterprise by leveraging a global merger involving over 250 senior managers speaking 15 different languages, and committed to a wide variety of business practices and policies. |
| Our Approach... |
| Analyzed: management's goals, best-practices, competitive intelligence and the enterprise's history with mergers worldwide. |
| Designed and assisted with delivery of first in a series of global senior management meetings to align goals, priorities, resources and action plans for strategic initiatives. |
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| Energy Client's Challenge... |
| US merger of "two-equals" presented management opportunity to establish strategy, business planning and marketing resources, processes and infrastructure that could reflect best-practices and enable dramatic growth organically and by acquisitions and joint ventures. |
| Our Approach... |
| Analyzed existing and evolving competition and management's growth goals. |
| Designed and guided the implementation of strategy development process, management performance measures and strategic marketing function. |
