Strategic Planning Consultant - Rockford Consulting

<BODY aLink=#ffcc00 bgColor=#ffffff link=#990000 vLink=#666666> <TABLE align=left border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=490> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=10></TD> <TD vAlign=top width=122><IMG alt="Strategic Planning Consultant" border=0 src="images/hurdle.gif" width="122" height="219"><BR><IMG alt="Strategic Planning Consultant" border=0 src="images/notation.gif" width="127" height="541"> <BR><BR><FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Strategic Planning Consultant Services Directory</B></FONT> <BR><BR> <A href="manucons.htm"> <img src="images/manuf.gif" alt="Manufacturing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="manucons.htm"> <img src="images/lean.gif" alt="Lean Manufacturing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="cellcons.htm"> <img src="images/cell.gif" alt="Cellular Manufacturing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="distcons.htm"><img src="images/distrib.gif" alt="Distribution" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="purcons.htm"><img src="images/purch.gif" alt="Purchasing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="stracons.htm"><img src="images/strategy.gif" alt="Strategic Planning" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="itcons.htm"><img src="images/infotech.gif" alt="Information Technology" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="supcons.htm"><img src="images/supply.gif" alt="Supply Chain Management" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="outcons.htm"><img src="images/outsour.gif" alt="Outsourcing" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <BR><BR><FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>General Information</B></FONT> <BR><BR><A href="about.htm"><img src="images/aboutus.gif" alt="About Us" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="ia.htm"><img src="images/intlalli.gif" alt="International Alliances" border=0 height=38 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="qualify.htm"><img src="images/qualif.gif" alt="Qualifications" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="articles.htm"><img src="images/articles.gif" alt="Articles" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="succes.htm"><img src="images/success.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="speaking.htm"><img src="images/speak.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="seminars.htm"><img src="images/seminar.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="news.htm"><img src="images/news.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="employop.htm"><img src="images/employ.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <A href="contact.htm"><img src="images/contact.gif" border=0 height=29 width=153 hspace=0 vspace=0></a> <BR><BR> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://RockfordConsulting.com/strategic-planning-consultant.htm"><B>|</B>Strategic Planning Consultant<B>|</B></A> </TD> <TD vAlign=top width=10></TD> <TD vAlign=top width=348><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Strategic Planning Consultant</B></FONT><BR><BR> <FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Consulting Services</B></FONT> <H4><CENTER><B>Strategic Planning Consultant Services Offered: </B></CENTER></H4> <FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2> <p valign="justify"><b>Our firm has learned through direct experience in facilitating strategic planning sessions with top management, that plans fail in the traditional organization for a distinct list of reasons: </b></p> <UL> <li>First: "hipshot" thinking. Too many strategic planning sessions are accomplished over a stint in a nice resort. The time is often compressed to a few days for such critical planning. Executives don't have much of a chance to think through their assignments. </li> <li>Second: quite often only a few key executives are involved in the planning sessions. Functional departments may not be represented in a plan that consequently affects them. This results in having too few owners of the plan. </li> <li>Third: when a plan is devised, it may not be authored by people below the first tier of management. The old paradigm is that the top executives are the best qualified to accomplish the planning. Since the participation is limited, those responsible for daily operations in the firm have no authorship in the future of the company: no "buy-in." </li> <li>Fourth: when the strategic plan is finished, it often dies at the end of the sessions because it is not integrated with the annual business plan or the annual budget. In this instance, life goes on in the organization the same way it did before the strategic planning session. </li> <li>Fifth: too few people are measured by the success or failure of the plan. If too few feet are held to the fire for the plan's outcome, it has little chance of success. We believe that you get what you measure. Measure the results of the plan, and you will get results. </li> <li>Sixth: hardly anyone gets paid as a result of the success or failure of the strategic plan. Except for a few key executives who have objectives to meet to make their bonuses, pay systems generally tend to be mutually exclusive from the success of a strategic plan. Workers and salaried people, in addition to middle managers, are paid as a result of some obscure compensation system. </li> <li>Seventh: individual and team efforts are seldom ever tied to the outcome of the company's strategy. Workers respond to how they are measured. They know that keeping the machines running increases utilization, that's what they have been taught that the company wants, and so they build inventory, even when its not needed. </li> <li>Eighth: most workers, whether they be executives, salaried, or labor, don't know how to behave as a team member. Our society teaches us to be heroes, to worship heroes, and that we are rewarded for individualistic efforts. It starts in school with academic and sport competition. The hero is the pitcher with the most games won, or the quarterback with the most yards gained. We foster entrepreneurial efforts in business. As a result, most team efforts in the company boardroom are feigned.</li> </UL> <br> <b>The overall quality of the long range plan increases substantially when executives have an opportunity to think through the ramifications of their actions. </b>The best situation is when a plan is devised during one or two day sessions, twice a month, over a period of several months. This allows assignments to be given out in between sessions, and provides the executives a chance to spend more concentrated time on the assignment at home, or in the evenings when they are more relaxed.<br> <br> The quality of each individual's contribution to the plan vastly improves. Then, the results of the assignments are brought in to the sessions and synthesized with the efforts of others to achieve a much higher quality plan. <br> <b>Contact us <a href="contact.htm">(click here) </a>for more information on how we can improve your operations.</b> <br><br> The Strategic Planning Consultant and facilitation services we offer, as part of our Supply Chain Management consulting portfolio, are: <UL> <li>Raising awareness and involving everyone in building a new direction.</li> <li>Developing a new competitive direction for your business and becoming more customer driven. </li> <li>Developing the master plan while building a custom strategy for inducing radical change. </li> <li>Developing cohesiveness among managers using a team building approach that focuses on results. </li> <li>Creating a cohesive team environment through high involvement. </li> <li>Formulating teams to streamline processes, improve productivity and substantially reduce costs. </li> <li>Developing missions, goals and objectives for self-managing teams that vertically link with the company's strategic direction. </li> <li>Using a state-of-the-art tool to integrate the vision with annual business/budget planning, and daily operations.</li> <li>Developing measurable action plans to ensure success. </li> <li>Creating accountabilities and linking the new direction with performance measurement and reward systems</li> <li>Collaborative Mission Statement Development</li> <li>Collaborative Statement of Purpose Development</li> <li>Collaborative Core Values Statement Development</li> <li>Top-down Objectives/Goals</li> <li>Vertically/Horizontally-Integrated Action Plans</li> <li>Collaborative KPI Development</li> <li>Competitive Analysis</li> <li>SWOT Analysis</li> <li>Gap Analysis</li> <li>Performance-based Reward System Development </li> <li>Performance Metric Development</li> <li>Benchmarking</li> <li>Global Outsourcing</li> <li>Acquisition Assessment</li> <li>Due Diligence</li> <li>Top Management Facilitation </li> </ul> <P ALIGN="CENTER"><A HREF="http://rockfordconsulting.com/strategic-planning-consultant.htm"><B>|</B>Strategic Planning Consultant<B>|</B></A> <P><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Consulting Information</B></FONT> <FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2> <BR><BR><P align=justify>Rockford Consulting Group is located in Rockford, IL., a city with a substantial manufacturing and machine tool history. An Illinois corporation, our Strategic Planning Consultant specialize in purchasing, manufacturing, outsourcing, manufacturing and distribution operations management consulting. As companies search for ways to react to intense competitive pressures in the next decade, our firm offers a unique group of integrated dynamic state-of-the-art services to help clients develop high performance capability. We do not represent any commercial product or service that would be regarded as value-add. We provide high quality work to our clients and do not engage services for which we are not qualified. </P> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> Rockford Consulting Group has a cadre of the best consultants in the world today, providing high quality professionalism through the use of experience and innovation. We subscribe to the Institute of Management Consultants Code of Professional Conduct. We strive to enhance the integrity and image of the consulting profession. All consultants engaged on projects adhere to its principles. Whenever possible we will use consultants certified in their particular specialty area. </P> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> Certification ensures that a specialist has substantial prior experience in their specialty, and their competencies have been tested by the IMC, and verified by a significant number of clients. This assures our clients that we are assigning the highest qualified consultants in the profession. </P> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> Specialists on a client assignment may have up to 30+ years consulting experience. Rockford Consulting Group applies concepts and technologies as the situation warrants, which will result in the ultimate benefit to our clients. We treat technologies as tools in a tool-chest, and use them when they offer practical solutions and achievable results. We believe that each client situation is unique, with its own unique set of solutions.</p> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">A fresh objective view is always maintained, with no preconceived solutions or fads. We develop practical and implementable manufacturing management solutions, based on decades of experience. Using team-building techniques, we facilitate the process of developing technical and organizational strategies and transform them into executable, and measurable short-term actions. Our clients learn to sustain the process, gaining the ownership required for success.</p> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">All of our staff have direct, hands-on operational experience in early parts of their careers. Many consultants were engineers, machine operators, manufacturing engineering managers, and purchasing managers. This provides sensitivity and insight to operational issues; i.e., they know how factories and businesses work. <BR> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY">We do not employ consultants inexperienced in manufacturing, and/or distribution. Most of our Strategic Planning Consultant staff have international experience, having worked in countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, France, Germany, England, Ireland, Italy, China, or Russia. </p> <P ALIGN="JUSTIFY"> We work primarily with publicly and privately owned corporations, or divisions of large corporations, from $30mm to $400mm in sales revenue. Our hands-on experience spans a wide range of environments, which reach from business services, consumer products, through high-tech. Industries served are service, automotive, aerospace, durable consumer products, rubber, plastics, electronics, off-road vehicles, and distribution.</p> <BR> <BR><CENTER><A HREF="http://rockfordconsulting.com/strategic-planning-consultant.htm">Strategic Planning Consultant</font></A></CENTER><BR> <CENTER><FONT color=gray face=arial size=3><B>Contact Information</B></FONT> </CENTER><BR> <FONT color=#000000 face=arial size=2> <CENTER>Forward Requests For Proposals To:</CENTER><BR><CENTER>Rockford Consulting Group<BR>Century Plaza<BR>Suite 206<BR>7210 East State Street<BR>Rockford, Illinois 61108<BR> Telephone: 815-229-2900<BR>Telefax: 815-229-2612<BR>Toll-free 800-667-7495 </CENTER><BR><CENTER> <FONT color=gray face=arial size=2><A href="mailto: rligus@RockfordConsulting.com">E-mail Richard G. 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