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Rockwood Management Services
52 Johnson Drive
Chatham, New Jersey 07928-1168 U.S.A.
001-973-635-1970 Phone
info @ rockwood.com
European Affiliate - Frankfurt Area
B&P Baumann Wirtschaftsberater
Am Muehlgraben 75
63263 Neu-Isenburg, Germany
+49 6102 7416 0 Phone
info @ baumann-wb.de
WE ARE READY TO HELP!
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Merge, acquire, collaborate,
partner, share
These are all ways that we
help our clients to grow and improve their businesses. Often the best,
most innovative solutions result from the synthesis of multiple concepts and
ideas. It takes lots of time and effort to pull things together in ways
that are workable and cost-effective. Even large organizations are finding
it hard to do everything themselves. They are finding creative ways to
share expertise for the common good. They are sharing efforts with a broad
spectrum of partners from all points of the globe including governments,
educational institutions, customers and even competitors.
Mergers and acquisitions,
too, provide the economies of scale necessary to support trials and
controlled introductions of new products and technologies.
Having a larger
user base helps to spread the load and realize benefits with greater overall
value.
What is the
best way to get started?
There is probably no right or wrong way for everyone or every situation.
However, here are a few things to consider.
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Identify the biggest challenges that you
face.
This sounds easy, but can be difficult. Some people, some
organizations, have been subjected to problems and shortcomings for so
long that they accept them as facts of life. They believe that they are
doing the best that can be expected and resign themselves to a status
quo. These can represent the greatest opportunities for improvement.
For example, many professionals spend countless hours on tasks that
should be assigned to lower paid employees or replaced with automated
systems. After all, wouldn’t an interactive voice response system that
acts like a real person improve the productivity and effectiveness of
your phone calls? And, don’t be too surprised if a robotic nurse
answers your call button one of these days. Solutions like these will
soon be commonplace. Why not start investigating them now? And get
others to help.
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Who else could be interested in helping?
Put everyone down on a list of candidates even if you think that they
won’t be interested. We help, too. It can be surprising how long
the list will be and how interested others will be in getting your help,
too. In addition, trade associations may already working on solutions
to your problems or vendors may like a candidate to trial products that
have not been released to the marketplace. Trials are great; you can
expect lots of free assistance and support that will not be available
later on.
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Set expectations and decide how to
approach those on your list.
Are you looking for an informal relationship or would it be better to
consider a merger or acquisition\? It can be helpful to see what
others are interested in before making up your own mind.
Fresh ideas are important.
We stimulate ideas, set
priorities, organize the results and make plans for subsequent action and
follow-through.
We provide management support and help to assure that details are not
overlooked.
Conducting due
diligence and negotiating. Keeping things quiet.
We bring a broad
range of skills and capabilities together to assure successful conclusions.
We conduct all aspects of the effort in ways that maintain confidentiality
until the parties are ready to make the appropriate announcements. |