Strategy Development & Insights Services
Liberate your company’s growth potential.
Whether you need to raise new capital, gear up for rapid growth, identify or integrate new acquisitions, deal with operational constraints, or fill key positions with good talent, we can help you make the right decisions for your organization.
How We Help Clients
Business Strategy & Operations
We make companies more effective by identifying the right strategies and focusing on execution.
CHALLENGES
Health, life sciences, and technology services companies face constant disruption, and the current environment has rendered many strategic plans obsolete. Agile organizations keep a pulse on their environment, tuning their strategy to adapt while maintaining a laser-like focus on objectives. The next generation of industry disruptors is developing strategies that:
- Align purpose and values with stakeholder benefits and corporate activities
- Are attuned to the current state of the business and its operating environment
- Consider new business models, investments, and partnerships focused on delivering innovation and managing risk
Our Solutions
Strategy Development & Execution
We develop strategies that align your purpose and values with stakeholder benefits for maximum impact.
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Operations
We help high-growth organizations tackle the challenges that are roadblocks to efficiency, scalability, and sustainability.
Product Strategy
We align product positioning and market opportunity and help design the operational structures to manage the product for success.
Organizational Effectiveness
We align people, processes, structures, and behaviors to drive growth, enable scalability, enhance customer experience, improve operational efficiency, and develop a sustainable operating model that delivers your strategy.
CHALLENGES
The health, life sciences, and technology services industries are constantly evolving, and organizations must transform to reach new levels of business success. Leaders and teams must navigate volatile, fast-changing environments with agility to clarify the issues and accelerate the path to results. Long-term success means designing the structures, teams, and frameworks that deliver today’s results while building a foundation for tomorrow’s growth.
CREO helps you design and implement an operating model honed to your strategic intent. We provide organizational structures, leadership tools, and customized development plans that drive buy-in and accelerate results.
Our Solutions
Executive & Leadership Coaching
We coach C-suite and senior management executives and teams on individualized, effective leadership strategies that expand influence and impact.
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Organization Development
We help you clarify business objectives and then align the practice areas, functions, teams, roles, and accountabilities to leverage capabilities and achieve those objectives.
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Transformational Change Management
We align executives and team members on the approach to change and teach the tools to drive buy-in that accelerates transformation.
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Performance Improvement
We help simplify complexity in your organization’s design, standardize and optimize functions, and formalize continuous improvement standards.
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PMO and Process Optimization
We enable you to move to action on your business strategy through the discipline of managing projects and processes as a company asset.
CHALLENGES
Growing organizations pursuing transformation need an effective way to align execution of initiatives, drive visibility of status, and engineer processes for reliable outcomes.
Our Solutions
Project Management Office
We provide a framework to lead organizational change across a portfolio of projects to achieve strategic goals.
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Business Process Optimization
We help you hone the discipline of managing processes to improve business performance, outcomes, and operational agility.
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Karna needed to be more responsive to change. CREO brought a methodology that allowed Karna leadership to identify and focus on the fewest, most important things.
– Wayne M. Karna
Our People
Susan Acker-Walsh
CEO and Co-Founder
Energized by growth and change, Susan has served as a “Jill of All Trades,” holding the titles of Chairwoman, CEO, Chief Executive…
Mike Townley
President and Co-Founder
Mike’s experience ranges from hands-on technical positions across multiple disciplines to management and leadership roles…
Zack Crowson
Principal Consultant
Zack is a motivated and quantitatively oriented
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