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Blog Post

Building a Supply Chain Strategy

Supply Chain strategy is no longer just about ‘just in time’ and cost efficiency. It’s not even just about onshore vs. offshore, supply chain security, and sustainability. It’s about brand impact, politics, and a radically changing customer and product environment where customers are increasingly spread out, supply chain aware, and demanding.

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Blog Post

3 Reasons Compensation Transparency Gives Your Business A Leg Up

Three Reasons Why Pay Transparency is Gaining Traction, and How to Set Your Business Up For Success.

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White Paper

The Circular Economy

Explore ways to transition to a circular economy to address waste and environmental challenges.

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Blog Post

The Robots Are Coming: What is Industry 4.0?

The three-part Inc. article series on the timing and impact of humanoid professional and personal service robots.

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White Paper

It's the People, Stupid - Discover Why Business Psychology Matters

In the end, companies and non-profits are just collections of people who work together to create and deliver products and solutions that other people buy and consume. So the most important thing in business isn’t strategy, design, price, or even quality. It’s psychology and sociology. Applying proven psychological principles and models like Maslow’s Hierarchy and Erickson’s Eight Stages to your business can help it not only survive but thrive.

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Blog Post

7 Good Business Questions to Ask Yourself

Businesses must go beyond survival in the post-COVID world. They should focus on channel partners, supply chain, employee engagement, safe operations, cash-flow management, revenue replacement, and competitive strategies.

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White Paper

Estimating and Managing Investment in a Product Model Context

Explore ways to reduce waste and expand the range of business outcomes available through iterative and incremental investment cycles.

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White Paper

What is Strategy Consulting? Behind the Curtain

Discover the secrets behind successful consulting relationships. Explore financials, consulting models, and how these models drive culture and client service.

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Blog Post

Seven Ways Today’s Challenges Can Make Your Organization More Sustainable

The pandemic has changed the world. Use the Triple Bottom Line to make your business sustainable and resilient.

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Success Story

Team Success

Rebuilding and Redefining Team Success at a Top 5 National Bank

A wealth management team in a top 5 national bank had challenges attracting and retaining high-quality team members and the team’s backlog of work had grown insurmountable. The client needed a strategy to reduce attrition but lacked the expertise to identify the root causes of turnover, eliminate the team’s backlog, identify service gaps, and build a stable, successful team. Using Pepper Foster’s strategic transformation experience and StratC&T™ framework we implemented a team development program and workflow strategy to solve the client’s largest challenges, reduce turnover, increase team and customer satisfaction, work the backlog, and hire and onboard new team members.

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Success Story

CombineHarvester

Improving strategic alignment, governance, and planning for an Ag Lending leader with Pepper Foster’s StratX™ Framework

As a leader in the agriculture lending industry, our client had reached a strategic inflection point. The CEO told the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and Board of Directors, “We don’t know how to do strategy so we need to organize a strategy practice for the enterprise.” Leveraging our StratX™ framework, Pepper Foster implemented a collaborative strategy development solution that aligned the ELT and Board around a new corporate vision, strategic priorities, themes, plans, budget, and execution governance model.

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Success Story

EVCharging

Aligning Resource Utilization with Revenue and Expense Forecast for Clean Transportation

The client had seen the number of initiatives significantly increase over the last 3 years and needed a tool and methodology to align leadership around project prioritization and resource utilization. Pepper Foster worked with stakeholders to understand the priorities and constraints and rapidly developed and deployed a resource management tool and process.

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Success Story

Athlete

Redefining the Track: Digital Transformation of Athletic Performance for Global Apparel and Shoe Retailer

Pepper Foster spearheaded a digital transformation initiative focused on enhancing the athlete experience and improving operational efficiency. The new solution dramatically improved the functionality and efficiency of the lab, allowing for simultaneous multi-athlete tracking and interactive data engagement. Researchers and athletes experienced a more seamless interaction, with significant enhancements in data capture and analysis capabilities.

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Success Story

DoctorPatientConsultation

Streamlining Success: Maximizing Efficiency Through Lean 5S for Healthcare Provider

Pepper Foster was engaged to spearhead a Lean 5S initiative for a regional healthcare provider. The primary objective was establishing an organized and sustainable space, fostering increased efficiency while instilling a culture of ownership and responsibility among the Clinical and Learning and Development (L&D) teams.

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Success Story

Clockwork

Turning Around A Struggling Software Upgrade Project By Establishing Best Practices

How Pepper Foster helped a large utility turn around a critical software upgrade project and ensure dependent projects could be successful by refocusing the team, establishing best practices, and implementing a comprehensive runbook department-wide.

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