ENHANCING BUSINESS THROUGH CREATIVITY

Turnaround Leadership

The CEG team operates like emergency room physicians - assessing the client's current condition, stopping the hemorrhage of red ink, repairing the damage and getting the client company on the road to profitability. We have directly managed turnarounds and we have provided workout plans to be executed by existing management. Whether your company, or a division or a subsidiary, is just losing marketplace momentum or already losing money, the CEG team can help.

New Venture Planning

Have a new business idea, but don't know how to get it into a profit generating condition? Going from a great concept to a fully developed business strategy is a daunting task, particularly if you have never done it before. We have planned scores of new businesses, ranging from business to business service companies to international lumber operations. We understand how businesses really work and, more importantly, how they make profits.

Business Plan Preparation

Almost anyone can construct a business plan - there is software available that works on any modern personal computer. However, the real key is to create a business plan that wins acceptance with the target audience. When CEG prepares a business plan, the content is tailored to the salient business issues and the format is tailored to the anticipated audience. We build the plan based on logic and sound business practices, backed up with rational financial projections.

Executive Mentoring

Got a valued and promising executive who is struggling? Have organizational necessities pushed a young manager into a senior executive position, without sufficient training? The CEG team can help - not by propping up that promising executive, but by teaching and guiding him or her to achieve the necessary level of performance. We act like a good parent: not doing the work for the executive but making sure he or she learns how to do it, through personal experience.

Acquisition Analysis

Got a great acquisition opportunity but can't spare your top management to review and analyze it? CEG can help by adding senior executive experience to your analysis and review team. We have participated in, or lead, numerous acquisition and merger analysis teams. At one end of the process, our team members can identify and articulate big picture synergies and roadblocks. At the other extreme, we can demystify and put a value on proprietary information and data.

Technology Assessment

Whether you are trying to evaluate the value and applicability of your own technology or someone else's, CEG can help. Because we have been involved in such a wide diversity of industries, we add a perspective seldom available from your internal staff. We aren't technology specialists; we are knowledgeable generalists with a keen sense of commerciality. Thus, we tend to look past the technology to find the potential profit generating business that the technology can generate.

Interim Business Management

Where it makes good business sense, we can provide short-term general management of a business. An unanticipated void at the top of an organization can be quite destructive. Temporarily filling the opening with an internal person isn't always possible, or advisable. An experienced CEG team member can keep the business moving forward while you find a new general manager. Once that new manager is on board, the CEG team can, if necessary, switch to the executive mentoring mode.

Strategic Planning

While your company executives may view strategic planning as just another required corporate exercise, we truly believe it is the central core of any long-term business success. If you company doesn't have a strategic business model to follow and build on, how do you know you are going in the right direction? CEG creates strategic plans that are broad in scope, but built from simple concepts. We strive for a business model that can be explained to a ten year old in just a few sentences.