Category: Business strategy

Challenge.  The EVP of Strategy & Growth of a mid-sized, national multi-service contractor was interested in performing a competitor analysis in the core four-state region in which his firm primarily operated.  He faced challenges in obtaining accurate, reliable competitor information due to the fact that many of these companies were privately-held, and oftentimes family owned,…
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Purpose Everything that’s ever been created was created with a purpose in mind: its raison d’être or “reason for existence”.  Products, services, programs, teams, functional areas, committees (especially ad hoc), organizations, and even human beings – there’s a reason why they all exist. A company’s mission statement is a proclamation of the organization’s purpose or…
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The Source Bain & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1973 with 48 offices in 31 countries around the world.  The firm’s clients include many of the largest organizations that comprise the Fortune 500 and it boldly claims that its clients out-perform the market (as measured by the S&P 500, a standard…
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My Basketball World Anyone who knows me well knows that I love basketball.  I made my first basket at the age of ten playing at the South End Boys & Girls Club in Tacoma, Washington, and played up to high school ball in Kent.  During my senior year, my team went to the WIAA state…
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