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Four best practices for building your internal competitive intelligence capabilities

5 tactics than can improve your corporate entrepreneurship’s chances of success

Infographic: Create your perfect investors package for start-ups

Reality check: actual capital sources for start-ups and how to better position your firm for funding

Growth plans gone wrong: why even some leading companies fail when expanding internationally

The 8 key dimensions we evaluate when assessing a company’s growth and innovation capabilities

7 best practices of high performance innovation-driven companies

Benefits and typical challenges when building an on-going customer and competitive insight program

Typical challenges when identifying, articulating and prioritizing growth opportunities

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Program management of global strategy development for $4b food ingredient business for one of the largest US corporations

Innovation portfolio articulation, evaluation and prioritization for major energy multinational

Strategic pricing optimization for 3 product lines of a $2b B2B business unit of a major food ingredients global corporation

Post-merger business case and delivery model development for global real estate services company

Worldwide customer insight program for leading manufacturer of armored glass

National key accounts research to protect competitive position and drive growth for leading financial services entity

Market attractiveness analysis for leading business services multinational to educate international growth and market entry

Acquisition Due-Diligence for Fortune Global 500 Corporation

Detailed action planning, capability development and key stakeholder engagement for leading global executive firm

Strategic and operational plan for $20M cloud-computing health IT company

Integrated growth strategy for new, innovative public-source water solutions startup

On-going customer intelligence support for one of the largest commercial banks in Latin America

Competitive landscaping for major healthcare provider

Detailed Global Industry Mapping For World’s Major Provider Of Scientific, Technical And Medical Information

Turnaround, Growth Strategy and Implementation for Alma Dance School

In-depth market analysis and opportunity prioritization for leading genetic-testing firm in the fast-growing field of personalized medicine

Financial and operational analysis for performance improvement for new businesses at a leading provider of foodservice and facilities solutions in the U.S

Development of template for business planning and segment analysis for leading multinational in the lawn and garden industry

Strategic growth plan for new Chicago-based rapid prototyping, design and engineering center

Market analysis to measure brand positioning, usage and consideration for leading financial services provider in Canada

Competitive landscaping for leading retailer to educate their push marketing strategy and implementation of iBeacon technology

Growth initiatives articulation and prioritization for US$1B SBU of one of the largest US commodities corporations

Assessment of growth and innovation capabilities for large industrial conglomerate

Cross-functional action planning for leading manufacturer of armored glass

Development of custom innovation and growth stage-gate process for a Fortune Global 500 corporation

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Worldwide customer insight program for leading manufacturer of armored glass

Led worldwide customer strategy program for leading multinational in OEM automotive sector (AGP Glass, Brazil). Articulated and executed analysis of customer needs for core B2B customers in 20+ countries. Interviewed 80+ CEOs and top executives. Created system to allow company to track detailed customer metrics and insights periodically.

Integrated growth strategy for new, innovative public-source water solutions startup

Developed integrated growth strategy, marketing/branding and action planning for innovative water-access start-up. This project was nominated for the AMCF 2013 Value and Excellence in Consulting award.