Pelorus

                 Experience, Expertise and Education

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Experience and Expertise

We believe that when looking for professional management consulting services a clients seek consultants with both a breadth and depth of experience, specific expertise in the area of need.  The benefit of a consultant’s exposure to a breadth of industries and business environments is perspective.  Quite frankly, not all business problems and issues are unique.  In many cases, not all, the issue at hand has been analyzed and resolved before in another situation; not a pre-determined solution (solutions looking for a problem) , but a framework for analyzing and resolving a business issue or situation.  Client’s should not pay for “whole cloth” solutions in time or money.  Client’s really want to get to the crux of the matter as quickly and efficiently as practical and prudent.  

In the same vane, client’s hire consultants for their expertise in a specific industry (medical devices, pipelines, forest products, direct marketing) or to either supplement inhouse capabilities or, in most instances, temporarily add a unique capability to deal with a specific, one-time issue (prepare, market and negotiate the sale of a business unit or product line).  

Pelorus draws upon a breadth of tangible experience in an array of industries in assessing and solving client issues.  The predominance of our experience is business-to-business (B2B) and selected experience in business-to-consumer (B2C).  A sampling of Pelorus industry experience, either operating or consulting assignments:

• Business-to-business:  Pharmaceutical (Intravenous solutions production), transportation (pipelines, rail), forest products (timberland and production), industrial electronics and controls, energy (E&P, mini-refineries), medical devices.    
• Business-to-consumer:  residential real estate, financial services (mortgage brokering, Pre-paid legal services, data-base direct marketing), long-distance telephone services, post-secondary for-profit education, internet-based performance analysis.

Pelorus expertise:

• Divesting and acquiring companies, business units, product lines, new technologies
• Over $1 billion in transactions
• Commercializing nascent technologies
• Strategic planning and business plan development
• Situation assessment
• Competitive analysis
• Direct marketing to consumers
• Interim management