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Business Areas:
Product and Market Strategy
- How well do your products serve your customers' needs?
- How is your market changing?
- What opportunities are available?
Competitive Analysis and Strategy
- How valuable are the relative strengths and weaknesses of your products compared to your competitors' products and to substitute products?
- How fast are your competitors improving, and where do they seem to be headed?
- What opportunities are available?
Technology Trends
- What technologies will improve your products-- or your competitors' products-- to what extent, and when?
- Which opportunities are worth pursuing now?
Operational Excellence, Metrics, and
Six Sigma Management Systems
- How efficient are your systems?
- To what extent can your costs be reduced while simultaneously improving both your product quality and delivery, as well as your staff morale?
- How much would these gains boost your competitive market position and your profitability?
Risk Analysis, Scenario and Contingency Planning
- What foreseeable events could significantly impact your business?
- How quickly can your resources respond?
- What costs and opportunities would you find?
"What are your most important business goals right now?"
Clients:
Start-ups
Small and mid-size firms
Business Unit, Division, and Corporate level of multi-billion dollar enterprises
Business References:
“Mr. Steinberg… was involved in making analyses or reports to the top management… These analyses dealt with competitors, markets, technologies, investment proposals and [the] like. When conducting this activity, Mr. Steinberg always made excellent job. The analyses were to the point, and included both the strategic view and relevant detail. For this kind of activity, I would without any hesitation recommend Mr. Steinberg’s capability…”
-- CTO, major division of large multi-national corporation
“Dan… was responsible for the preparation of… materials on behalf of a number of clients from a variety of different industries. Dan exhibited a high level of competence, persistence and professionalism towards all tasks assigned to him.”
-- President, management consulting firm
“Special Bonus for Outstanding Efforts”
-- President, specialty consulting firm