Success Stories

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Strategic Development

  • European Manufacturing Firm: Developed new strategic intent and implementable long term strategy with regenerative concepts to achieve annual 20% growth and expand into international markets with potential for market leadership
  • Fortune 200 Consumer Products Firm: Identified core competencies and strategic change requirements to change the corporate "driving force" from manufacturing driven to customer driven
  • International Non-Profit Organization: Developed a strategic roadmap to advance its professional achievements in alignment with its global vision
  • Southeast Asia Consumer Products Company: Developed new vision and strategy. Coached senior management in executing the strategy that resulted in doubling profits and reversal of a four year decline in profitability and market share
  • Consumer Products Company: Identified "areas of excellence" to improve competitive position; led benchmarking for the purpose of organizational gap analysis and developed implementable "roadmap" for change
  • Regional University:  Led the process in defining a new vision and mission for the school.  Coached faculty/staff in developing strategies to make it a preferred school delivering student-centered services.

Technology Management

  • Consumer Products Company: Strategically restructured R&D&E that shifted it from a hierarchical centralized function to a flat organization with long term research in core competency areas, and with customer-responsive product and process development in multi-functional business teams. Included were new systems and processes for operational effectiveness
  • Fortune 200 Company: Increased the effectiveness of the allocated R&D funding by focusing on essential key technologies used in the "futures" product mix and eliminating other non-essential technologies
  • Scandinavian Healthcare Firm: Provided executive education on best practices for R&D and effective organizational models, as a baseline for corporate restructuring and goal to increase leverage from research funding
  • Fortune 500 Company: Identified base, key and pacing technologies and analyzed the fit to the R&D project portfolio. Developed implementable plan to improve current revenues and achieve one or two market leadership position from new products in the future

New Product Development/Innovation

  • Fortune 200 Consumer Products Firm: Developed and coached the implementation of a proprietary new product development/innovation process that had a corporate goal of 25% revenue from products introduced over previous four years. Included was an audit of the organization for purpose of identifying accelerators and barriers to change in the process as well as organizational culture
  • Consumer Products Firm: Audited the enterprise’s product mix and new product development projects as to type (breakthrough, platform, line extensions) to meet strategic growth goals; developed plan to improve profitability as well as market share
  • Global Manufacturing Firm: As part of R&D ideation in the "fuzzy front end" of the New Product Development Process, conducted a survey of customers and end-users to identify product attributes that would create value-added, and identified trends that impact on longer term product development
  • Billion Dollar Technology Firm: Provided executive education on best practices of highly innovative companies for their gap analysis on new product development with a goal of doubling revenues in a five year period
  • European Manufacturing/Technology Firm:  As part of the corporate mission to be global leader in the industry, developed understanding and analysis of end-users' view of product distinctiveness and the impact of global trends, for geographies of North America and Europe, with the intent of creating new products and services for the future

Leadership & Organizational Excellence

  • Consumer Products Firm: Developed new vision, mission, and values. Coached communication process that moved the organization towards common purpose
  • Fortune 500 Firm: Developed R&D mission consistent with corporate vision; provided new sense of purpose with projects aligned to the business strategic intent

 

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