The Role of Business Management Consulting Firms in Middle Market Manufacturing and Distribution Companies

Middle market companies—typically defined as those with annual revenues between $25 million and $1 billion—face unique challenges and opportunities. These firms, often in the manufacturing and distribution sectors, operate at a revenue level where they are too small to have expertise across all business processes and will often turn to …Read More

A Simple, Powerful Approach to Strategic Planning

Is your company’s strategic plan too complex, unclear, or ineffective?

To help you assess your own organization, we’ve created a free survey:

Strategy Execution Risk Assessment Survey

This survey will help you quickly identify the biggest risks to your strategy execution and determine whether Value Stream Mapping Consulting would deliver high ROI for your company.

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For the leaders of middle market companies, it can be lonely at the top. They are often surrounded by long-term employees who have helped them achieve middle market status. These employees, while very talented provide filtered input to the CEO or Founder and in many cases can only provide advice based on what they learned inside the company. As a result, …Read More

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I am grateful to Dave Bookbinder for having me on his podcast: “Behind the Numbers” to discuss my book, but more importantly to discuss a simple approach to developing and implementing business strategy, which has yielded great results in dozens of companies over the last 10 years. Even if you have a strategic planning and implementation process …Read More

Productivity is down over the last two years and continuing to decline

• 66% of employees feel do not feel engaged.
• 80% of strategies don’t realize their intended value.
• 60% of CEO’s don’t believe their team does a good job of implementing strategy.

These are compelling numbers that all business leaders should take note of. These numbers are …Read More

Having a business strategy is important, but if it is not communicated properly and all stakeholders aren’t engaged, then what is the point?

In this podcast, Craig Smith and I discuss strategic intent in his podcast, The Big Picture People and how to use Strategy Realized – The Business Hierarchy of Needs® as a communication and engagement vehicle. I hope you enjoy it. If you want to find out more about applying the Business Hierarchy of Needs® to your business and significantly improve your strategic results, feel free to send a note to info@group50.com or request more information here.

• Development of one Most Important Goal
• Creation of business strategies to support it
• Full engagement of stakeholders
• Application of Value Stream Mapping to close operating and strategic gaps
• Identification of an increase of $105M in Enterprise Value

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As consultants and advisors our mission is to provide services to our clients that help them resolve issues in their business, positively impact their business performance and improve their corporate Culture. By taking a holistic view, we can increase the breadth of our services which will increase both short term and long-term revenues. Often, it isn’t obvious to us what the potential broader impact of our work is, or how our services can be broadened to have a greater impact. By considering the elements of the Business Hierarchy of Needs^®, we can optimize our efforts with laser sharp focus on fixing client issues, improving client performance, and increasing the scope of our work. The Business Hierarchy of Needs^®, a change management framework shown below,
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This is a section from my book:  “Strategy Realized – The Business Hierarchy of Needs®” which was released on 1/9/2023 (Buy Now) and will be available as a hardcover on 2/9/2023. You may want to refresh your knowledge of the Business Hierarchy of Needs® before reading on or just take a moment to study the image below to better understand this framework that is designed to turn strategy into results by taking a close look at the image.

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