Paul Kovach and Craig Swiatek bring broad expertise to businesses and leaders who want to advance their companies DENVER – C Squared Solutions, a Denver-based business consultancy, announces the addition of Paul Kovach and Craig Swiatek to their C-suite team of business advisors. Focused on elevating the customer experience Read more…
Last September, October, and November, we published a series of blogs focused on preparing for 2022, providing several actions for thriving in the coming year. How well you prepared for the increasing uncertainty with alternate plans will likely answer our title question. (Hopefully you are not currently operating an airline!) Read more…
Nearly everyone has experienced the inability to buy needed supplies, from consumers to multi-national corporations. Just-in-time, single-source supply chains have unraveled and now thinking is changing to just-in-case, multiple supply chains. Is this pandemic effect on the supply chain transitory or permanent? If you factor in cold snaps in Read more…
How effective is your management team? Are they doing the right things at the right time? Successful companies focus on their most important business drivers and conduct pragmatic assessments on how well they perform them. Guided Discovery Top performance comes from a clear strategy and defined implementation steps – enabling Read more…
“Uncertainty in the economy, society, politics, has become so great as to render futile, if not counterproductive, the kind of planning most companies still practice forecasting based on probabilities.” -Peter Drucker, 1995. It has been one year since we wrote the original piece on this topic. Today we are seeing Read more…
After six months of working from home, are you working at all hours of the day and night? Do you fear that you are burning out? Many dedicated executives and staff are feeling the stress of not disconnecting from their work. The result is depression, mental sluggishness, and declining work Read more…
Your new ERP system is installed; your team is figuring out how to move around and use it. Inevitably there are additional wants, fixes, irritations, and broken situations. You call the software provider, voicing your concern and they respond offering to send a team to your location. Thinking that the Read more…
CFOs in Stage Two Businesses Well-established businesses are pivoting during COVID-19 and changing their business models for various reasons – lack of demand, lack of supply, lack of employees – and, of course, all the government mandates to control the spread of the Coronavirus. The use of a fractional CFO Read more…
Preparing for uncertainty: As businesses reopen, most do not know what the new normal will be nor expect a quick ramp up in their business. A gardener does not know what the weather will be for the growing season, so they prepare the best infrastructure plan for watering, weeding and Read more…