Our Differentiators

Our consulting services are independent, business-oriented and thorough. They address a broad variety of business, technical and marketing needs and are scalable to work within our clients' resource, budget and delivery constraints and objectives. Our key differentiators and their associated benefits include:

Interdisciplinary Skills

Our consultants have a unique blend of knowledge that includes hands on experience in business management, marketing, product/service management and technology implementation. In addition, we work with both solution providers and solution buyers, giving us insights into the needs, issues and motivations on each side. This background is indispensible for troubleshooting complex relationships, communicating across organizational boundaries and developing solutions that benefit all constituents.

Benefits: Capable of handling a broad range of business needs, more effective communication across organizations, better overall solutions to maximize business value

Versatility

We thrive on tough challenges and diving into new topical areas. CEOs hire us as all-purpose troubleshooters who can research, develop plans and implement solutions for almost any issue that comes their way. While our origins are in the technology area, our assignments have spanned multiple sectors and functional areas: we've optimized travel service and sourcing organizations, developed employee satisfaction assessment and improvement programs, and written business plans to reposition major business units.

Benefits: Able to handle tough interdisciplinary assignments, devise effective solutions for unexpected issues and opportunities

Analytical Capabilities

Our analytical capabilities enable us to develop solutions tailored to your precise needs. Our research, metrics and modeling expertise enables us to quickly come up to speed on new consulting assignments. We rapidly assess and understand organizational, market, business and technology issues. We use external research to identify best practices and potential pitfalls, confirm findings and establish benchmarks for evaluating solutions. Together this research provides the knowledge and objective insights necessary to develop effective solutions as well as the data to justify and build support for our, and our clients' ultimate recommendations.

Benefits: Better, more effective strategies and solutions based on accurate, timely and objective information

Communication Capabilities

We are expert writers and presenters who are able to synthesize and clearly explain complex topics, issues and solutions to all levels of audiences. We are equally adept at presenting to senior executives and corporate boards and committees as we are to teams of practitioners. We have the technical knowledge to understand your CTO, chief architect and other subject matter experts and the business savvy to simplify and communicate technical issues and opportunities in business terms.

Benefits: Clear communication of issues, opportunities and solutions to internal and external audiences

Extensive Experience

Since our founding in 1993, we've accumulated extensive experience working with companies in the automotive, banking, business services, consulting, consumer product, healthcare, insurance, investment, legal, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, software, and telecommunications industries. In addition to our domestic business, we've completed projects onsite and remotely for companies in Canada, China, India, Japan and throughout Europe. We are skilled at working with globally distributed teams and handling cultural nuances.

Benefits: Strong base of knowledge to handle your needs; ability to work globally; effective collaboration across cultures