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Helping Clients Improve Results Across the Business Cycle by Adam Hartung

March 14, 2009

Dear Members,

There is a new and better approach to helping companies improve their organization's results during downturns. This presentation shows how to help clients increase growth, unleash creativity and innovation, migrate toward future trends with minimal change issues and improve motivation. Takeaways:

  • The importance of scenario planning, and how to do it effectively to increase growth
  • How to use competitive analysis to improve results including the role of SWOT
  • How to use innovation to upend competitors
  • The value of Disruptions, and how to implement them so change is far easier
  • The benefits of White Space, and how clients can create and manage it
  • How good leaders help their organizations adopt trends to improve motivation

This session is about what the most successful organizations of all sizes actually do that sets them apart in their ability to generate above-average results year after year after year and how consultants can help them implement these steps.

About Adam Hartung

Adam Hartung is a former consulting partner at Index, CSC Consulting, Coopers & Lybrand Consulting and The Boston Consulting Group, now leading Spark Partners in suburban Chicago. He is a 3-time successful entrepreneur, and headed business development at PepsiCo, DuPont and Sun Microsystems.

His approach to strategy and implementation utilizes over 800 case studies developed across 12 years of research. He has worked with leading management thinkers including Clayton Christensen, Geoffrey Moore and Jim Collins to develop a new approach which helps organizations flourish regardless of environment, including economic downturns like we’re seeing today. He has worked with CEOs in numerous organizations to make the approach actionable and effective.

He is a faculty and advisory council member at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, and has his MBA is from the Harvard Business School, with Distinction.

Here is an interview with Adam Hartung by Christy Erbeck:

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