"Real and long-term capability is reached only when the core competency becomes a part of the DNA of an organization."

– Nancy Tennant Snyder
Deborah L. Duarte
Strategic Innovation

"Being socially responsible means striving to embed our values and ethics into everything we do — business...employees...
communities."

– Eva Sage-Gavin
"Corporate Social
Responsibility at Gap"
HRPS Journal

"The world is not interested in the storms you encountered but in whether you brought the ship in safely."

– Norman R. Augustine,
"Managing the Crisis
You Tried to Prevent"
HBR

Our clients meet challenges head on and for the long term. We serve a broad client base of Fortune 500 companies, agencies, state-owned entities, educational institutions, and governmental organizations.

We have worked in many industry segments and across business functions. Our strength lies in identifying lessons learned that may be applied to your business context.

Strategy — People — Process

For example, we have:

• Created new strategy to meet ambitious medium and long-term growth targets for global specialty chemicals division of Fortune 50 company.
• Developed and codified approach (strategic, portfolio, and organizational) enabling client companies to better manage global businesses.
• Crafted globalization strategy for new business venture for US-based utility.
• Created targeted business vision and strategy for career development office of emerging Top 25 MBA program. Strategy significantly improved results in 6 months.
• Designed and executed organizational aspects of transformational strategy for $5B North American operation — achieving rapid success while building sustainable tools and capabilities.
• Established first Center of Expertise focused on driving effective organizations. Created and implemented leading edge practices and tools for onsite execution by Fortune 500 manufacturer.
• Conducted organizational redesign for key division of major Latin American national petroleum company; combined with parallel process improvement effort, yielded substantially-improved performance (cost savings of US$.5B) and adoption of new, best-in-class methods.
• Executed project to drive operational excellence in North America-wide shared services for global manufacturer, cutting costs and creating new approach to managing projects and implementing change.
• Developed career development/management curriculum and materials for first- and second-year students of Top-10 ranked business school. Trained key student coaches to execute program.