When our company merged with a sister company, we needed detailed project management action plans on every aspect of the business. Our strategy was to evaluate and choose what each company did ‘best’ and take the ‘best’ from the two separate companies to create something greater than just the sum of the two companies. As […]
After we merged the two companies and aligned the territories in May 2009, the sales representatives were still operating with two separate order-processing systems. We needed one system that would allow ordering across all product categories, access to inventory status, order status updates, shipment information, account management information and it needed to be seamless and […]
As part of the sister companies merger in 2009, we had showroom duplication and redundancy across the country for the business model ROI. I led the evaluation of each location taking into consideration cost and revenue per square foot, sku allocation per location and evaluated sales revenue that was driven by the official market dates […]
During my tenure as President of a home décor and gift company, I formed an executive team comprised of VP of Product Development, VP of Finance and VP of IT to improve the efficiencies in inventory management. We had an intense focus on effective utilization of our working capital. Together, we worked through a complete […]
At our home décor and gift company, we realized that in order to be in the forefront of the exploding social media environment, we needed to develop a plan to effectively leverage that media. After researching various options to either do it ourselves or partner with a company that specialized in that area, we made […]
The leading global company in the printing and information handling business had a corporate initiative to seek the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award. This was a significant investment of time and resources and the goal was to utilize the pursuit of the Malcolm Baldrige award as a means to foster process improvements, documentation of key […]
A leading home décor company had a rich and successful heritage of growth and innovation and was previously led by one of the best. Upon being asked to assume the Presidency role in 2005, I immediately formed an Executive Leadership Team (ELT) consisting of all senior management and mission critical department heads. The purpose of […]
One example of the brainstorming and collaboration of the leadership team was to address how we could leverage our capabilities and grow additional top line revenue while utilizing our efficient systems, IT and Distribution operations and expand our service offerings to customers. Through the collaboration of the Leadership Team, the idea originated of providing direct […]
We solve problems by utilizing our extensive experience at various levels of responsibility. Our problem solving vision is process driven along with an organized management philosophy built upon understanding of the overall project scope before jumping to conclusions. This requires patience and keen listening skills built on a foundation of proven interpersonal skills. Problem solving […]
