Gadish Management Consulting has helped transform organizations. These case studies help illustrate just some of the ways we can support your organizational needs.
We invite you to read the following case studies that Gadish Management Consulting has successfully implemented by selecting an industry from the list below:
Arts / Import
Client’s Goal(s): Secure funding for expansion in California.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with the company to understand their unique art product line from South America, identified local wholesale and retail markets for the one-of-a-kind products they import, and created a business plan which allows them to secure funding for expansion in California.
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Biotechnology
Client’s Goal(s): Secure funding for human trials of a new drug leading to FDA approval.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with the company to understand their patented technology. We then proceeded to create a business plan reflecting the products the company provides, and the patented technology they seek to fund.
We presented the business plan to potential strategic partners, venture capital firms, and private investors, and secured the required funds, thus allowing the company to move forward with the FDA approval process.
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Community Festival / Non-Profit
Client’s Goal(s): Become a more popular, increase brand awareness, create a more profitable non-profit organization.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with the board of directors of a local community festival as well as the organization’s staff, to develop a marketing plan that defines the approach the festival must take to become more popular in the community. We provided advice on restructuring the fundraising approach.
We provide ongoing consulting services to the festival as it works to implement organizational changes.
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Construction
Client’s Goal(s): Penetrate new (commercial construction) markets.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We helped a construction company working exclusively with residential clients, define a marketing strategy to penetrate the commercial market. We worked with the president of the company to define a marketing plan. The plan clearly identifies the market segments the company should approach. We defined a specific marketing strategy for each of the business sectors, and assisted in implementing a series of marketing campaigned. We measured the effectiveness of each marketing campaign, and adjusted the campaigns to maximize return on investment (ROI).
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Dental / Supply
Client’s Goal(s): Become a more corporate, more efficient and profitable organization.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with a dental supply company on a new organizational strategy, and helped implement the strategy (a dental supply company provides dental products and materials for thousands of dentists by ordering them from hundreds of dental product manufacturers).
We defined an online marketing strategy and worked with the company to create a sophisticated online presence, which includes an online store to sell about 20,000 dental products. We defined an online marketing plan and worked to promote the online store to quickly increase online sales.
We worked with the management and staff of the organization to define operational and management systems throughout the organization, increasing accountability of employees and middle management. We focused on creating an environment which links rewards to accountability and employee performance. We worked with management to hire staff to support the new organizational systems.
Throughout the process, we worked with the owners of the organization through the Corporate Transition Coaching program, helping them adjust as they transition the organization to a more corporate environment.
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Entertainment / Film
Client’s Goal(s): Secure funding to continue work on a multi-part documentary film.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with the producer, as well as the documentary’s team to understand their vision for the documentary and its distribution. We created a business plan, and helped them promote it in the Hollywood film industry.
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Environmental Technology
Client’s Goal(s): Introduce imported environmentally friendly home HVAC products to the US market.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with an importer (that has exclusive rights to newly patented HVAC products) to define a strategic plan to introduce the products into the US market. The plan consists of B2B (business-to-business) as well as B2C (business-to-consumers) and B2G (business-to-government) components.
We worked with the client to receive necessary government approvals for these products, and to certify them as environmentally friendly. We worked to promote the products to regional and national US distributors. We defined a multi-channel marketing campaign to promote the products to US consumers.
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Facilities Management
Client’s Goal(s): Transition to a corporate entity and capture new markets.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with the management of a rapidly-growing facilities management company to perform an organizational audit, and create a strategic plan for the organization. The plan defines organization wide systems, departmental systems, operational systems. We worked with management to define a comprehensive marketing plan targeting new market segments. We defined a strategy to introduce new products and services to existing markets the company services.
Throughout the process, we worked with the owners of the organization through the Corporate Transition Coaching program, helping them adjust as they transition the organization to a more corporate environment.
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Film Festival
Client’s Goal(s): Become a more efficient, and more profitable non-profit organization.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with the founding director of an international film festival as well as the organization’s staff, on an organizational audit leading to a strategic plan which defines the approach the festival must take to become more corporate. We provided advice on restructuring the board of directors of the film festival. We provide ongoing consulting services to the festival as it works to implement organizational changes.
Throughout the process, we worked with the founding director through the Entrepreneur Coaching program, helping them effectively manage this organizational transformation.
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Financial Services
Client’s Goal(s): Become a more corporate entity as it grows. Build an online services infrastructure.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with the management of a financial services company to define a strategy for growth. We helped the company with its recruitment activities to secure top caliber personnel. We worked to define and implement a comprehensive online presence, including a sophisticated financial services platform allowing the firm’s clients to interact with it online.
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Food / Franchise
Client’s Goal(s): Secure funding for franchising a fast-food operation. Build up the operation.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with a franchisor of a fast food concept to define a clear strategic plan, marketing plan, and business plan to secure funding necessary to turn an existing operation into a franchise operation. We introduced the plans to investors to secure required funding.
We consulted the franchisor as they promoted the organization to potential franchisees, and built their franchise operation.
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Garment Industry / Import
Client’s Goal(s): Become a more corporate, a more efficient, and a more profitable operation.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We are working with the leading importer of garments to the US to re-engineer its existing operational and management systems. The implementation strategy includes revising the organization’s business processes to be more inline with the latest technology developments, revising data flow processes, revising job descriptions, defining and hiring additional human resources as required.
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Government (City of Los Angeles)
Client’s Goal(s): Define a modern information technology strategy to increase organizational efficiency.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with the general manager of a Los Angeles city department to define an information technology (IT) strategy. We worked to implement a strategy which includes improved utilization of existing human resources, re-training of human resources, and introduction of new IT processes into the organization.
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Healthcare
Client’s Goal(s): Build a healthcare company.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with the investors of the healthcare startup to define a strategic plan as well as a marketing plan for their organization. We then helped them as they built their operational capabilities, and monitored and adjusted their marketing campaigns to effectively promote the organization's products and services to other organizations in the healthcare industry (B2B marketing).
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HVAC Services
Client’s Goal(s): Prevent the company from filing bankruptcy.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with the management of an HVAC services company to transition the money loosing organization to profitability. We conducted an organizational audit to identify problems, their causes and extent. We then defined a strategy to transition the company from working with builders to interacting directly with residential, commercial (restaurant chains, etc.), and institutional (government, insurance companies) entities.
Throughout the process, we worked with the management of the organization through the Business Crisis Coaching program to help them quickly and effectively respond to the serious business challenges they faced.
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Information Technology (IT)
Client’s Goal(s): Turn a money-loosing organization into a profitable organization.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with the management and employees of an information technology service provider to conduct an organizational audit and defined new strategic and marketing plans. We then assisted in the implementation of the plans, helped recruit human resources, and assisted the company in its efforts to penetrate new markets.
Throughout the process, we worked with the management of the organization through the Business Crisis Coaching program to help them quickly and effectively respond to the serious business challenges they faced.
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Inventions
Client’s Goal(s): Turn an invention into a multi-million dollar organization.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with the client to understand their invention, and the market for it. We then created a business plan, and approached angel investors to fund the start-up organization. Once funding was secured, we proceeded to work with the inventor to create and implement strategic and marketing plans, recruit management, and build a viable organization providing products and services related to the invention.
Throughout the process, we worked with the inventor through the Startup Coaching program to help them understand what is involved in starting the business, and becoming a business owner.
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Media / Publishing
Client’s Goal(s): Create an organization to publish a print and online magazine.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: The client, with many years of corporate success in the publishing industry, wanted to start their own publication. We worked with the client to create a business plan. We brought a number of strategic partners / investors together, and then helped plan and form a successful organization that publishes a monthly magazine.
Throughout the process, we worked with the client through the Startup Coaching program to help them understand what is involved in starting the business, and becoming a business owner.
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Community Organization / Non-Profit
Client’s Goal(s): Strengthen the positioning and secure additional funding for the organization.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with the board of directors to create a business plan to secure funding for a permanent location, and recruited a full-time fundraiser for the organization. We worked to strengthen the board of directors by infusing it with new strategic board members.
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Real Estate / Mortgage Brokerage
Client’s Goal(s): Start and grow a real estate / mortgage brokerage.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: Worked to define a strategic plan, and a marketing plan for the start-up organization. We created a business plan to help the organization create strategic alliances with other institutions in the real estate and mortgage industries. Planed and implemented a range of traditional and online marketing campaigns to promote the organization.
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Retail / Wholesale
Client’s Goal(s): Introduce imported food products to major supermarket chains in the US.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with the client to understand the products they were already selling to mom and pop shops in the US. We then defined a comprehensive marketing strategy to penetrate the larger supermarket chains. We established collaborations with major distributors, and helped the company enter multiple supermarket chains.
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Sports
Client’s Goal(s): Turn a popular informational sports web site into a commercial enterprise selling products online.
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We worked with the client to define a strategic plan consisting of operational components and marketing components. We helped re-design the web site, and to introduce an infrastructure to sell third-party products online.
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Transportation (LAX Airport)
Client’s Goal(s): Evaluate and provide feedback on ongoing IT strategic efforts
Our Actions to achieve these Goals: We helped define and refine a strategy for one of the multi-million dollar initiatives at the airport. We then reviewed and provide feedback on the implementation of the strategy.
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