Strategy & Start-Up
Strategic planning consulting, business start-up consulting, and general management consulting — from founding structure to multi-year operating plans.
Strategy · Start-Up · General Mgmt
Front Page / The Desks
Five Desks. Sixty Disciplines.
Every engagement is assigned to a desk, every desk to a senior consultant, every finding to a deadline. The complete filing list follows.
Desk I · Corporate Affairs
Management & Corporate.
The administrative core — how an organization is structured, governed, planned, and positioned.
Administration & Records
Administrative and business management consulting, financial management consulting (excluding investment advice), medical office management, and records management consulting.
Admin · Financial · Records · Medical Office
Reorganization & Sites
Reorganizational consulting when structure must change, plus site location and site selection consulting for expansion, relocation, and consolidation.
Reorganization · Site Selection
Desk II · Personnel
Workforce & Compensation.
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation consulting and planning, employee compensation and benefit consulting, benefit consulting services, and actuarial analysis (except insurance actuarial services).
Compensation · Benefits · Actuarial
HR & Personnel
Human resource consulting, personnel management consulting, employee assessment consulting, and organization development consulting.
HR · Personnel · Assessment · OD
Labor & Service
Labor relations consulting for negotiations and grievance frameworks, and customer service management consulting for the functions that face your customers.
Labor Relations · Customer Service
Desk III · Revenue
Markets & Growth.
Marketing
Marketing consulting and marketing management consulting — positioning, pricing logic, channel strategy, and campaign governance.
Marketing · Channels · Brand
New Product Development
New product development consulting from concept screening through launch readiness, with stage-gate discipline throughout.
Product · Launch · Stage-Gate
Sales Management
Sales management consulting — territory design, quota systems, pipeline discipline, and the operating rhythm of a revenue organization.
Sales · Territory · Pipeline
Desk IV · The Supply Line
Supply Chain & Operations.
Logistics & Distribution
Logistics and integrated supply chain management, logistics management, physical distribution consulting, transportation management, and telecommunications and utilities management consulting.
Logistics · Distribution · Transport · Utilities
Freight, Customs & Tariff
Freight rate auditing, freight rate and freight traffic consulting, customs consulting, and tariff rate consulting and information services.
Freight Audit · Customs · Tariff
Manufacturing & Materials
Manufacturing management consulting, manufacturing operations improvement, materials management, production planning and control, and inventory planning and control.
Manufacturing · Materials · Inventory
Efficiency & Research
Efficiency management consulting, productivity improvement consulting, and operations research — the analytical desk that finds the waste and prices its removal.
Efficiency · Productivity · OR
Desk V · Field & Laboratory
Environment & Applied Sciences.
Environmental & Restoration
Environmental consulting, ecological restoration, environmental reclamation planning, site remediation, sanitation consulting, and wetland restoration planning.
Remediation · Wetlands · Sanitation
Agriculture & Biology
Agricultural, agrology, agronomy, biological, dairy herd, entomology, horticultural, livestock breeding, and veterinary consulting services.
Agronomy · Livestock · Veterinary
Physical & Built
Chemical, geochemical, hydrology, physics, nuclear energy, and energy consulting — plus building envelope, roof, and waterproofing consulting.
Energy · Hydrology · Envelope
Specialist Register
Economic consulting, safety consulting, security consulting, radio consulting, and motion picture consulting services.
Economics · Safety · Security · Media
Assignment
File It To The Desk.
Send the situation and we assign it — named desk editor, fixed filing dates, sourced findings.
File A Dispatch