Businesses are highly complex and at the same time incredibly simple. There are some very practical and time-tested philosophies and methods that can be used to ensure that a business can achieve the desired results.

What we work on is not just giving you advice and coming up with plans that become paperweights. What we do is work on an in your business with you as a teammate. Our experiences across the entire spectrum of business from strategy to planning to capitalization to financial negotiations from start to finish, from the exit to the clean. 

We’ve seen it all over the course of our careers, so we take the advantage of being not just engineers and not just consultants, but business engineers to design a future together that everybody wins.

“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be."

- Napoleon Hill

It’s been said in business that timing is everything and team runs a close second. While that’s true, we also believe that the number one reason businesses go out of business or succeed is having the correct access and structure of their finances and capital.

We work with you to make sure that your budgets and projections are lined up with available sources of equity and debt capital to achieve your growth objectives. Making sure that your business considers and anticipates what it will need in the future is critical to ensure what one to two years of operations looks like.

You will think very differently and manage things differently in your business if you’re not constantly struggling to make payroll. The freedom to create and to thrive. And to make strategic decisions by being properly capitalized and properly backed by financial partners.

It gives you power as a CEO and ultimately helps to protect your company and your projects.

“The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is living fully and just existing.”

― Gerber Michael E., The E-myth Revisited

The trains need to run on time. Factories need to deliver on time. Projects need to end on time. And processes need to run ABC and 123.

Ensuring that your company can run the right processes at the right time in the right sequence and relationships is critical to removing friction and increasing stakeholder enjoyment in the process of working together.

Operational improvements happen when stress is relieved for the people doing the work and their job satisfaction helps ultimately to delight your customers. If your customers are happy and your employees are happy and your other stakeholders and investors are happy, operations are achieving the desired result.

We work alongside you to ensure there’s no waste in the systems and that processes are documented, followed by all, and, more importantly, updated with feedback for improvement regularly.

Today’s world of thousands of applications has made it very easy to over-engineer the complexity of running your business. We believe less is more and keeping it simple is the name of the game.

Our operations management approach is to use time tested industry standard software and tools with high level support, high level training and widely accepted business practices so that your existing team and new team members and partners have the ability to accelerate their work.

Sometimes the best thing we do is to help you stop doing something.

"When setting objectives for the year, don’t just focus on what to achieve. Also include your top three objectives to stop doing. For every “to-do” objective, have a corresponding “stop doing” objective."

- Jim Collins, Good to Great

Most business owners and project executives forget that everything you do has an element of risk and compliance. Our experience is that most people have risks and regulatory issues in their business that they don’t even know that they have.

One of the hardest things you can learn how to manage in life is that you don’t know what you don’t know. What we work on is to help uncover the items and blind spots that most business owners overlook or take for granted that their staff or their advisors are taking care of.

We make sure that as your advocate, we’re giving you advice, CEO to CEO, from lessons learned over decades of running businesses, investing in businesses, and dealing with problems. We can assure you that your attorney, your CPA, your bookkeeper, your banker, and your insurance agent are all very good at what they do.

However, what we have learned is that they are not going to advocate as if they are you. In short, you cannot outsource ownership to your vendors.

What we do is come in and audit all of those critical business relationships – their scopes of work, what they’ve done lately, what they’re planning on doing in the future. We make sure everything from your first EIN number to your last tax return has been properly documented so that you have the ability to manage the sale, exit, or close of your business.

In short, this tremendously improves the value of your company to a potential buyer. It’s the number one area that someone attempting to sell their business leaves the most money on the table for poor quality documents or accounting or risk issues that drastically change the terms and price of the value of your business.

“The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome.”

— Peter L. Bernstein1.

Who must do what by when? That is the essence of project management.

Are we managing things in parallel? Are they running in series? Are there predecessors or long lead items? How do we make sure we finish by when we intend to finish?

That we have the resources at the right time? that we have adequate capital to be able to pay our vendors and pay our suppliers and pay for materials and pay for all the things that need to be done to achieve our results?

How are we monitoring and managing the outcomes? And how are we making sure that the systems do not hold us up from the execution?

We can step in and help you manage strategic projects and mission critical projects as a part of your team to make sure that you have the resources in place to get to the next level – months, if not years, ahead of time.

Project management is the art of being the CEO of a specific objective, the owner of the outcome, understanding that the people, the process, and all variables need to be touched and managed every day to guarantee that the scope, schedule, and budget will be met.

“Operations keep the lights on, strategy provides a light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.”

-Joy Gumz

We don't just write a bunch of plans and get everybody excited about what you're going to do.

We actually roll up our sleeves and help you do it.

We do it very simply. We actually open up the computer and we pull out the flip charts and we pull up the spreadsheets and we pull up the flow charts and we pull up the task lists.

And we build the systems with the team that we'll need to execute the outcome. We conduct the meetings, we have the check-ins, we make the calls, we help hold people accountable and we hold ourselves accountable.

We make sure that all of the variables that happen in trying to achieve a result have a leadership mindset and focuses on the outcome for everybody to execute.

We're not for everybody, and that's OK. We're not for people who are procrastinators. We're not for people who are dreamers. And we're not for people who aren't interested in actually achieving greatness.

Will only work with other leaders and will only work with other people that have a desire to do something big. So, let's talk about your next big thing. We are the people that can help you achieve massive results.

"I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies."

- Lawrence Bossidy