| 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 ten-fold increase in resources. |
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| Technology Client's Challenge... |
| A new CEO and the investment community were dissatisfied with the implementation progress in global restructuring that seemed to be stalled by failed IT initiatives involving enterprise solutions software, Y2K mitigation and staff losses. |
| Our Approach... |
| Analyzed: management's growth strategy, global best-practices and the options-for-action interviewing over 50 senior executives. |
| Designed a sound IT strategy implementation plan and guided a transition in technology management and strategic and tactical technology plans - including refocusing approximately $50M IT investment. |
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| Life Sciences Client's Challenge... |
| A new CEO was dissatisfied with senior management's progress in strengthening sales, product development and information technology talent and plans that were essential to achieving growth goals in market share, revenue and profit contribution. |
| 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 and operations restructuring. |
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| Life Sciences Client's Challenge... |
| Renowned worldwide client was committed to strengthening the quality and effectiveness of their research processes, staff and organization, that were essential to success; in situations involving intense pressure for action in an area of science where the best-path is very unclear. |
| Our Approach... |
| Analyzed: deteriorating effectiveness, management's and stakeholder's goals, best-practices and opinions of management and individual contributors. |
| Designed and guided the implementation of strengthened talent, organization, management processes and strategic and tactical change-initiatives. |
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| Information and Media Client's Challenge... |
| Merger success, involving four U.S. enterprises, was critical to the foreign parent and to the reputation and competitive positioning of the merged enterprises. Unified pricing, sales, marketing and information technology were a central concern. |
| Our Approach... |
| Analyzed: management's goals in merger, best-practices and competitive intelligence. Interviewed key contributors at all levels. |
| Assisted client team members to identify and develop a mitigation plan and team for most significant obstacles-to-success with the merger. Guided aspects of the implementation process including strengthened communications within and outside the new post-merger enterprise. |
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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... |
| 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. |
