The Enterprise Group
Time Shared Executive Advisors

Innovation is the key to success in today's brutal global competition. If you want to revitalize your innovation process and train your organization in the most effective ways to compete/succeed through innovation, Doug Dempsey is the man to help you. Doug has made a career of innovation in every aspect of business. Educated as both an engineer and a businessman, Doug is also an inventor at heart, holding patents on a number of innovations including the first graphite composite tennis racquets (while at Wilson Sporting Goods). While innovation is his first love, he has also been a senior operating executive of several companies and can provide help in that capacity as well. Most of all, he is a highly creative and visionary leader, which permits him to both lead the creation process and the implementation of its outcomes. Finding these contrasting skills in one person is uncommon.

To get this kind of help, use this link to e-mail THE ENTERPRISE GROUP. If you want to describe the kind of help or your situation, please feel free to do it. It will be kept confidential and I'll connect you directly with Doug Dempsey. If you want to contact him directly, just use this e-mail link, and indicate that you found him through either The Enterprise Group or John Mariotti.

A strong business relies on successful products/services. When revenue growth and new product introductions slow it is felt throughout the entire business. Yet most companies today are thinly staffed and overloaded when trying to revitalize a stalled product or launch a new product/service. The product launch is the moment when customers are most demanding, and if it is not dynamic and well conceived, the effort could backfire or fail. Vaughn Baker has introduced new or revitalized stalled consumer products in America, Asia, and Europe for three decades. Typically, Baker works alongside company staff developing a detailed launch plan while staff takes care of ongoing business. Then Baker organizes a SWAT team approach to the launch or revitalization focusing on it until agreed upon objectives are achieved.

To get this kind of help, use this link to e-mail THE ENTERPRISE GROUP. If you want to describe the kind of help or your situation, please feel free to do it. It will be kept confidential and I'll connect you directly with Vaughn Baker. If you want to contact him directly, use this e-mail link, and indicate that you found him through either The Enterprise Group or John Mariotti.

If you need a brand name--or a family of brands, a positioning statement, an advertising or promotional tag line, or anything else in this area, there is no better, faster or higher value solution than to contact Daniel Moneypenny. Daniel's client list reads like a "Who's Who" of business, and he works equally well with industry giants like P. & G. and with small companies just getting started. And, he is not only dynamic and incredibly good, he is affordable too!

To get this kind of help, use this link to e-mail THE ENTERPRISE GROUP. If you want to describe the kind of help or your situation, please feel free to do it. It will be kept confidential and I'll connect you directly with Daniel at Emaginit. If you want to contact him directly, just use this e-mail link, and indicate that you found him through either The Enterprise Group or John Mariotti. There is more info on Daniel's work on his site.

60% of your customers really don't know why they buy from you -- or why they should continue to buy from you - especially when some new cheaper alternative comes along that seems "good enough." That's why they say your prices are too high, that's why your margins are too low and that means the marketing system is broken. Ivana Taylor of Third Force has a turnkey marketing process that will identify and re-connect you to your ideal, most profitable customers and make you the one they choose - every time. WARNING: this process will work -- if you want it to.

To get this kind of help, use this link to e-mail THE ENTERPRISE GROUP. If you want to describe the kind of help or your situation, please feel free to do it. It will be kept confidential and I'll connect you directly with Ivana Taylor. If you want to contact her directly, just use this e-mail link, and indicate that you found her through either The Enterprise Group or John Mariotti. There is more info on Ivana's work on her site.

Is your company "broken" or struggling and making little or no progress. Has operational effectiveness or operating discipline broken down. Are you on the perilous edge of big trouble? Or do you just need help moving from a plateau of modest performance to a much higher level? Then Joe Kokal is our man. Joe learned business the hard way--from the ground up--and ended up owning his own business. But he realized he really enjoyed helping others get "out of trouble" and has been doing it now for years, very, very effectively. Joe can come in as a consultant or as an interim executive, if necessary, and initiate the platform of change necessary to turnaround and/or improve all sorts of businesses, but especially manufacturing situations.

To get this kind of help, use this link to e-mail THE ENTERPRISE GROUP. If you want to describe the kind of help or your situation, please feel free to do it. It will be kept confidential and I'll connect you directly with Joe Kokal. If you want to contact him directly, just use this e-mail link, and indicate that you found him through either The Enterprise Group or John Mariotti.

Retained executive search has a well-deserved reputation for often being ineffective, expensive and alibi-ridden. If you've retained a large national search firm to recruit an exec and were happy, count yourself as lucky. A more common outcome is a large fee + expenses, a lengthy but marginal slate of candidates, excuses about inadequate compensation or an undesirable location, and the search is done, with no suitable candidate. Why not use a boutique search firmÑa professional with over thirty years of experience and hundreds of successful searches under his beltÑwho never gives up until he fills the job with the right candidate. John Grom doesn't have multiple offices or a large staff of researchers. What he has is a large network of executive contacts built over the years and a strong reputation for getting the job done. With John Grom you won't have as good an excuse for failure as if you used a large national firm and came up empty, but then you won't need one!

To get this kind of help, use this link to e-mail THE ENTERPRISE GROUP. If you want to describe the kind of help or your situation, please feel free to do it. It will be kept confidential and I'll connect you directly with John Grom. If you want to contact him directly, use this e-mail link, and indicate that you found him through either The Enterprise Group or John Mariotti. More info on C. John Grom's work is on his site.

Many times a company either has no formal HR function, or cannot afford to staff with a high level HR executive because that level of help is not needed "full time". When this is the case, or if the HR function is just not working so smoothly, it's time to find a better solution. Here is one! STHRM is the variable-cost solution to fixed-cost human resource issues. STHRM works to make your company more competitive, profitable, and to bring about meaningful changes that benefit employees and shareholders. Glenn Levar believes that building value starts with people. He has provided full-service human resources outsource solutions to entrepreneurial, mid-market, and turnaround companies for more than nine years.

To get this kind of help, use this link to e-mail THE ENTERPRISE GROUP. If you want to describe the kind of help or your situation, please feel free to do it. It will be kept confidential and I'll connect you directly with Glenn at STHRM. If you want to contact him directly, just use this e-mail link, and indicate that you found him through either The Enterprise Group or John Mariotti. There is more info on Glenn's work on his site.

Great Lakes Resource Center has expertise that enables managers of organizations and work units to create and apply customized measurement tools to drive changes that result in improving the effectiveness of managers, organizational practices, teams and individuals. These measurement tools help improve your relationships and results as you deal with customers, suppliers, and employees. Get proven bottom line results! "Measure it and it will improve."

To get this kind of help, use this link to e-mail THE ENTERPRISE GROUP. If you want to describe the kind of help or your situation, please feel free to do it. It will be kept confidential and I'll connect you directly with Tom Finley. If you want to contact him directly, use this e-mail link, and indicate that you found him through either The Enterprise Group or John Mariotti.

Prosperity Perpetuation® Person-Specific™ Planning

Calfee Financial is an independent financial advisor that provides concepts, strategies and comprehensive management services for individuals and businesses. Peter Calfee uses his years of success as an "advisor to the stars" while at IMG, a career as a highly capable CPA and business-person to help you craft plans and create the best possible outcome for you and your business. Ignore the tired templates and pre-conceived notions that are offered by too many mediocre practitioners. Now you can obtain advice that combines sound fundamentals and fresh ideas with the energy and discipline to meet your needs. Build a customized, highly personal, integrated and focused strategy for individual and business financial planning and your pathway to prosperity perpetuation¨.

To get this kind of help, use this link to e-mail THE ENTERPRISE GROUP. If you want to describe the kind of help or your situation, please feel free to do it. It will be kept confidential and I'll connect you directly with Peter Calfee. If you want to contact him directly, use this e-mail link, and indicate that you found him through either The Enterprise Group or John Mariotti.

If your company suffers from inaccurate forecasting, poor demand planning, too many SKUs, poor service and/or poor inventories control, Al Klayko is a person who can help. With over 35 years experience in supply chain management and certification in Production & Inventory Control, Al has the knowledge and experience to significantly improve your supply chain processes. Al has improved forecasting accuracy at other companies by over 60% and improved inventory turns by 2-3 times and customer service into the high 90-percentiles.

To get this kind of help, use this link to e-mail THE ENTERPRISE GROUP. If you want to describe the kind of help or your situation, please feel free to do it. It will be kept confidential and I'll connect you directly with Al Klayko. If you want to contact him directly, use this e-mail link, and indicate that you found him through either The Enterprise Group or John Mariotti.