The management
advisory and consulting services offered by CDG include:
Strategic Business Planning
Whether your company is experiencing unprecedented growth, reviewing its
strategic direction or needs to position more effectively against your
competition, CDG can provide expertise that will help to ensure the
development of a thorough, comprehensive plan. CDG employs
state-of-the-market approaches to the analysis of your business
environment, your service offering and your competition that will
successfully
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define and clarify
goals
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identify critical
success factors
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identify obstacles
to success
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formulate a
realistic, executable plan for achievement of your goals
CDG’s
Strategic Planning services can focus on your company as a whole, a
specific practice area or on a specific service offering.
Marketing and Sales Planning
Services selling and marketing are often the most significant
challenge to a professional services company. The expectations of your
prospects and clients are primarily set by the exposure to your company
through the marketing and selling processes. Sales forecasts not being
met can be the symptom of deeper, more complex problems associated
directly with the way your company is marketing or selling its services.
CDG’s
Saturation Bombing Marketing approach examines all facets of the
how your company is marketing its services to your prospects
including
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target market
definition
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alignment between
your services and the target market
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effectiveness of
approaches employed to reach your target market
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recommendations for
enhancement and improvement of your marketing efforts
A
fine tuned approach to selling your company’s services is vital
to ensuring long term success. In a professional services environment,
business development related to new sales can be one of the most
complex challenges to the organization. Our Sales Planning services
approach includes
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examination of your
current services selling environment
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examination of your
current sales approach, techniques and methodology
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identification of
“gaps” where sales effectiveness is being compromised
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identification of
“thinking out of the box” sales approaches and opportunities
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recommendations for
enhancing and improving your company’s sales results
CDG’s
Marketing and Sales Planning services can focus on your company as a
whole, a specific practice area or on a specific service offering.
Operations and Process Improvement
The successful delivery of your company’s services and the alignment of
that delivery with the expectations of the client are primary
cornerstones of professional service quality. It is this critical
alignment combined with a structured approach that produces repeat
sales, great references and the highest level of client satisfaction.
CDG’s
Operations and Process Improvement Services can focus in a wide variety
of areas, depending on the needs of your company. Examples of services
provided to our clients include
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organization design
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alliance
formulation and management strategy
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enhancement of the
proposal development processes
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development of
roles and job descriptions
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development of a
project accounting processes
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development of
company-wide task level engagement methodologies
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process design and
establishment of a continuous improvement environment
Our in-depth understanding of professional services companies and
consulting firms, combined with our use of Six Sigma as our
foundational service delivery methodology allows CDG to provide an
unparalleled level of service to our clients.
Project
Management Services
Effective, efficient project management can be the key to success on any
consulting engagement. CDG’s Project Management services include the
development of project management methodology, project planning,
scheduling and control, review and enhancement of processes, resource
utilization, risk management and the development of your company’s
Project Management Office (PMO).
Training and Development Planning
A structured plan is the cornerstone of a successful training and
development strategy for your company. Our approach effectively
integrates the company’s business needs and training and development
needs with the recruiting and hiring and performance review processes.
The assessment of the gap between the needs of your organization and the
skills, backgrounds and desires of the associates in the organization
are integral components of this analysis. Once these gaps are
identified, short and long term training and development strategies are
formulated. This comprehensive approach helps to ensure the continuous
improvement of the process and the individual.
Customized Training Course Development and Hosting
CDG’s curriculum development professionals can assist your company in
building specific training courses to meet your company’s needs. These
courses can be structured for delivery in a classroom or e-learning
environment. Should your company have an interest in developing new
e-learning based courses or in converting current training to an
e-learning platform, CDG can help. We can also provide secure hosting
for your e-learning based curriculum.
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