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Strategic Planning; Project Planning; Performance Measurements; Balanced Scorecard:
Expert has extensive experience in strategic planning, and C-level team facilitation. He has conducted strategic business planning for manufacturing, construction, publishing, distribution, and service industries. He has been involved with formulating mission statements, capability analyses, value propositions, market evolution analyses, competitor analyses, and developing strategic goals, objectives, and measurements. He has assisted companies in the development of performance measurements. This includes measurements for business units as well as individual performance measurements. He has assisted companies with the development and implementation of balanced scorecards as well.

Strategic Management; Continuous Improvement; Business Process Re-Engineering:
Expert has conducted projects that involved team facilitation, training, process analysis, activity-based-costing, and business process re-engineering. He worked on a number of process improvement projects for manufacturing companies focusing on the key processes. He examined the as-is environment, identified opportunities to improve key processes, and trained the process team in process improvement techniques. Expert completed strategic planning for a construction company, a distribution company, a University, a printing company, food processing company, a paper company, and many others. He has experience with analyzing business processes using the Minnesota Quality Award and Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award examination criteria. He has identified key issues and made recommendations for improvement in service, manufacturing, and distribution companies.

eCommerce Strategic Planning; eCommerce Planning:
He has assisted companies in the development of strategic plans for eCommerce and Business-to-Business activities. He has assisted in the development of business plans, which included competition research, marketing plans, operations plans, and development of costs of operations.

Benchmarking; Competitive Research: Expert has expertise in benchmarking, strategic market planning, intelligence gathering, and operations assessments. He has conducted a competitive analysis for a device manufacturer, which included developing an information gathering plan, conducting the primary and secondary research, analyzing the data, and presenting the findings. He defined competitive profiles that included issues, operational and technical capabilities, and strategies. He also designed and facilitated a benchmarking program for a manufacturer of doors and windows. This project included identifying the critical processes, defining performance measures, identifying best in class companies, coordinating benchmarking sessions, and integrating the results into process improvement recommendations. He benchmarked the process of customer service, sales performance, supplier quality, and inventory management.

Re-Engineering:
Expert conducted a process re-engineering project for a major company that included identifying opportunities to improve key processes, training the process team in re-engineering techniques, and developing and implementing an implementation plan. The result of the project was the reduction of cost and cycle time. He has also conducted enterprise requirements assessment and improvement planning
projects as the first step of re-engineering projects.

He was engaged to assist large industrial distributor in developing a strategic planning process. Included training and facilitation of first strategic planning process. Assisted with market research, customer feedback, supplier input, internal analysis, and competitor analysis. Utilized balanced scorecard framework for opportunities tied to strategic vision and mission.

He facilitated the development of procedures for the engineering product development protocol (PDP) for a medical device manufacturing company to achieve compliance with the FDA quality system regulations.

He facilitated development of corporate strategy and business plan for an industrial business-to-business exchange that addressed market and competitive environment, industry challenges and leading Internet technologies to develop a value proposition, enabling organization and operations infrastructure.

He conducted strategic planning project for a diversified manufacturing and direct marketing company that included facilitating the development of strategic plans for six divisions. Specific steps included formulating mission statements, SWOT analyses, market evolution analyses, competitor analyses, developing strategic goals, objectives, measures and strategic actions. He conducted business reorganization and strategic planning for a remanufacturer of automotive parts. This included strategy development for corporate and all divisions. Strategic plans and associated action plans with implementation plans were developed. He performed strategic business planning with a software development company. He developed financial strategies and business reorganization strategies to redirect business to profitability. He conducted a process re-engineering project for a major printing company that included developing an approach for the company to understand the current pre-press process steps including customer input to plate making, identifying opportunities to improve key processes, and training the process team in re-engineering techniques The objective of the project was to reduce cost and cycle time. He was engaged to be a strategic business mentor/coach to CEO's and CFO"s. He has worked with more than 200 CEO's and CFO's.