| 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... |
| 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 pace-setting 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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| Information and Media 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... |
| Senior management was concerned about the most-likely outcome of a $15+ billion merger involving two enterprises with fundamentally different views and values related to: customer relationships, management competence and empowerment, financial policies, organization structure, human resource policies, research and development focus. |
| Our Approach... |
| Analyzed: management's quantitative and qualitative goals, strategy, best-practices, competitive intelligence and the policies, practices, merger plans and perspectives of senior leadership from the acquired and acquiring enterprises. |
| Produced implementation plans and identified and guided mitigation of 32 critical obstacles to merger success. |
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| Technology Client's Challenge... |
| Following 1995 Oklahoma City disaster, global client was committed to competitively superior IT recoverability and reliability worldwide, but was concerned about the quality, pragmatism and affordability of action plans being advocated to mitigate points of vulnerability. |
| Our Approach... |
| Analyzed: management's goals and global best-practices involving over 25 preeminent Fortune-listed enterprises. |
| Planned and guided early stages of implementation of organization, policy and operations restructuring to ensure client's IT talent and infrastructure recoverability and reliability reflected preeminence and best-practices. |
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| Technology Client's Challenge... |
| Management was determined to capitalize on the opportunities to restructure and strengthen the effectiveness of sales and marketing, coincident with the launch of a new global business |
| Our Approach... |
| Analyzed: competition, best-practices and management's growth goals. |
| Designed and guided the implementation of strengthened sales and marketing function and the reorientation of competencies required by new business focus. |
