Profile

Professional summary

Dewey Intelligence and Strategy (DeweyIS) helps leaders optimize enterprises for competitive positioning. As a strategic management consulting firm, we specialize in organizational change, market intelligence, and brand positioning. Services include research and expert counsel in strategic positioning, market opportunities, operations, and revenue development with attention to internal capacity building. We offer short-term injection of talent at the right moment to revitalize and strengthen our client's organizations for greater success.

Specialties include: Advertising Research, Business Case Development, Competitive Intelligence, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Customer Satisfaction, Derived Importance, Discrete Choice, Donor Services Assessment,

Engagement overview

DeweyIS typically enters into fixed-price agreements, which include all professional services and additional direct costs including data collection fees.  It is our practice to develop project budgets based on anticipated tasks assigned to the appropriate team member with estimated time requirements.

Clients

Dewey's consulting experiences spans over fifteen years, and she has advised Fortune 50 companies, higher education institutions, and charitable organizations in US and UK, including
• FedEx
• Cisco
• IBM
• CSU CalPol
• University of the Pacific
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Midland University
• Norwich University
• American Cancer Society
• Community Foundation Network
• NE London Community Foundation

Insights

The advice above is extremely sound, and the one addition I would suggest is be aware of your own emotional readiness to let go. While you work to make the company less dependent on you, you also need to untether yourself from the company.

Many business owners and executives pour their heart and soul into the organization, and the company becomes an extension of our personal identity. I have... Read more