Your Objectives
Deal with rapid growth in the organization to:

• Successfully handle growth from a "new venture" through "expansion" to "professionalization" in the company's life cycle
• Deal with problems in scaling up to meet demand e.g. lack of financing, equipment, or space; insufficient inventory to meet sales
• Address growing pains e.g. a drop in product quality, constant fire fighting, confused roles and responsibilities, communication breakdowns, high turnover in personnel, too few good managers and scheduling conflicts for senior management
• Translate rapid growth in revenues into corresponding growth in profits

How We Can Help

• Help you identify the root causes of problems and develop approaches to resolve issues
  • Evaluating or auditing the organization
  • Formulating an organizational development plan
    
    
• Help you in determining how best to acquire resources
• Strong physical, financial, and human resource management
• Cash, inventories, and personnel management planning to meet present and future needs
• Investment in adequate machinery or office space
  
  
• Help you develop operational and management systems
• Identify the systems needed to facilitate day-to-day operations such as billing, advertising, hiring, training, sales, production, delivery, etc.
• Identify the systems for strong planning, organization, development, and control
• Develop formal management systems - including plans for schedules, budgets, and development; the organization and development of personnel; and control mechanisms such as leadership, goal setting, and performance appraisals
  
  
• Help you manage the corporate culture
• Address/develop the organization's values, beliefs, and norms that represent an "informal control system"
• Identify processes to deal with conflict, unrealistic expectations, and lack of accountability
• Assist in the creation of a good work environment, innovation, and quality control processes
  
  
• Help you with targeted interventions
• Building in bootstrapping capabilities
• Combine replication with flexibility
  
• Create a new balance between rules and results
  
• Make use of outside resources
  
• Establish new partnerships with other organizations
  
• Support the transition from passive "documents" to active "knowledge bases"

Benefit
You benefit by:

• Increasing profitability
  
• Reducing dependence on informal, ad hoc planning with more systematic planning of operations, strategies, and contingencies
  
• Reducing uncertainty about roles and overlapping and undefined responsibilities; establish clear responsibilities that are mutually exclusive and exhaustive
  
• Enhancing control over the organization through formal, planned systems of organization control with explicit objectives, targets, measures, evaluations, and rewards
  
• Enhancing performance through planned development of managers and employees
  
• Establishing a balanced oriented towards major innovations and willingness to take major risks
  
• Developing a well-defined culture that is managed as an asset
  

Our Experience
Examples of our experience include:

• Engagements in planning for growth in high growth enterprises
• Numerous organizational and cultural transformations