Case Studies

Mid sized Industrial Equipment Manufacturer
In the Netherlands, developed a global selling system to include focused customer approaches, communication of pricing and terms, accounting and planning implementation. Results:16% sales growth in the first year of implementation.

Electronic Products Manufacturing and Outsourcers

For a European-USA owned public company, defined the size of electronic products market potential in various global markets, including computer and software, telecommunication and medical devices, determined the distribution and fulfillment capacity to meet the prospective market needed.

Automotive Competency Manufacturer
Developed a global strategic alliance profile, defined the key players, potential alliances and customers for Brazil, facilitated the meeting with potential alliances in Brazil and successfully formed an alliance partner.

Retail Hardware Product Importer/Distributor

Defined the product line merchandising, product line offering, and led the project team to revamp the product line; trained the sales force of the benefits of the new approach. Results: sales revenue increased 10 fold in the next two years.

Industrial Commodity Manufacturer
Using our Strategic Planning Process, led the management team to successfully create a plan that positioned the company for the owner to be sold successfully.

Consortium of Netherlands Companies
Provided the necessary market and competitive intelligence and strategy guidelines to assist sixteen different Dutch companies to locate US customers, strategic alliances, distributors and sales agents.

North American Printer
Establish strategic positioning through industry research for a large printer in the educational books, business-to-business catalogs, direct marketing materials, and specialty magazine markets.

Banta Corporation
Wisconsin
Website: http://www.banta.com/

Strategy, architecture, design, and development of an internal data exchange network, used to network several divisions within Banta Corporation. ASP, and Microsoft SQL Server.

Microsoft Consulting Services at Allstate Insurance

Northbrook, Illinois
Website: http://www.allstate.com/


Architecture, design and implementation for Allstate's corporate Intranet. Technologies include Microsoft Windows NT Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Site Server. Extensive use of Microsoft Active Server Page technologies on both the client and server side.


Allstate Insurance for Sales and Marketing Executives International

Northbrook, Illinois
Website: http://www.allstate.com/
Website: http://www.smei.org/


Designed and developed a web site for Sales and Marketing Executives International (SMEI). The site was created with Microsoft's BackOffice Platform including Internet Information Server 3.0 and Active Server Pages. The site facilitates the searching of predefined sites. Expert responses to member queries are also stored in a knowledge base of common sales and marketing issues. Using Microsoft Exchange, the SMEI site includes public and private forums for member collaboration and incorporates web based multimedia training. Additional Microsoft products and technologies used to develop the site include Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, Microsoft Access and Visual InterDev. Third party products include Java, Java Script and Verity Search 97 Information Server.


Accenture
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Website: http://www.accenture.com


Design and development of an internal database used to store, display and print textual abstracts. Application tools included Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Access.


American Express
Phoenix, Arizona
Website: http://www.americanexpress.com/

Application development involving database maintenance tools and sales tools for a consumer web site which offers travel bargains and demographics gathering contests to the general public. VB 4.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 were used to create approximately 200 SQL stored procedures used for all database access as well as VB wrapper functions for these stored procedures using VB 4.0 RDO (Remote Data Objects).


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