CONSUMER PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY:
Strategic Decision Support
  Client:   A Fortune 100 Manufacturer.
     
  Problem:   For several years, the client struggled with complex technical and cross-functional issues about committing to significant capacity expansion. Market forecasts for their products were strong, but competing perspectives and intricate linkages among the alternatives clouded any one clear direction. Executives had significantly different opinions on the best path forward. As a result, they were limiting near-term corporate growth.
     
  Approach:   Tunnell helped the client understand, quantify, evaluate, and prioritize their various options using our in-depth understanding of life sciences and our proprietary Tunnell Strategic Decision Services(SM) model.  We helped executives capture all variables impacting their decisions, plus added risk, uncertainty, and varying economic trade-offs and benefits to the total picture.  A number of business case options boiled a myriad of complex factors down to the critical few, and we financially demonstrated the value of these different business alternatives (including the “do nothing” case).  Consequently the client gained a financial grasp of the value of addressing (or not) major risks and uncertainties. Throughout our work, organizational issues were handled through our interactive project approach that used client-initiated language and decision criteria.
     
  Results:   The outcome?  A clear direction to move forward after years of ineffective grappling.  The chosen alternative was worth over one-half billion dollars to the client, clarified the organizationally-charged issues that were roadblocks to expansion, and gave senior executives a strategy they could rally around and embrace as their own.
       
   
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