Value Enhancement Solutions is a professional services firm that provides strategic planning coaching and implementation management expertise to large and mid-size companies, both public and private.  Specifically, Value Enhancement Solutions' service delivery platform includes assistance with the development of strategic business plans, coupled with project management services that support the execution of related new initiatives and "special projects". 

Balance

The time-tested guiding principal at the core of Value Enhancement Solutions' proprietary strategic planning model is balance.  We have discovered that the most effective leaders at the most successful companies are those who have mastered the ability to balance the always changing, and oftentimes conflicting, preferences of their extensive roster of interested parties.  This includes customers, investors, lenders, rating agencies, regulators, employees and labor organizations, the public community, and partners, to name just a few. 

Value Enhancement Solutions provides the tools and expertise to help executives achieve this balance by leading a team of selected corporate staff members in the development of a thorough, enterprise-wide, stakeholder analysis that is designed to identify the specific motivations of the company's particular interested parties. 

Methodology

The strategic planning process starts by specifically defining, in detail, the company's individual interested parties.  This information provides the basis for the next step in the process, which is the research and analysis phase. 

Value Enhancement Solutions has developed a proprietary reference tool, called "Materiality Mosaic™", that helps guide the research and analysis function.  Materiality Mosaic provides a comprehensive review of the subject company from the perspective of their entire universe of interested parties, for the purpose of improving relationships with, and perceptions amongst, this critically important contingent. 

Materiality Mosaic is a unique business intelligence tool designed to assist those within the organization who have a contractual responsibility (i.e. executives), a fiduciary duty (i.e. the Board of Directors), or a vested interest (i.e. private equity firms, hedge funds, venture capitalist, etc.) in maximizing value enhancement opportunities, while minimizing risk management challenges. 

Materiality Mosaic includes nearly 20,000 thought-provoking questions, addressing areas of opportunity for every functional area of a company.  The information contained within this system was compiled from many years of in-depth analysis of innumerable companies in many different industries, both domestic and foreign.  Quite simply, the fundamental premise behind Materiality Mosaic is that the best new ideas for a company are oftentimes already being applied, or have previously been tested, at other companies, including those in other industries. 

With Materiality Mosaic, Value Enhancement Solutions has captured and preserved just about every type of best practice technique imaginable and generalized them to transcend industry dividing lines.  These tidbits of state-of-the-art intelligence are organized in a scalable, easy-to-use database that when aggregated (i.e. into a "mosaic"), produces relevant content ("materiality") that is specifically tailored to the objectives of each company. 

What oftentimes results from this exercise is a litany of newly discovered ideas and opportunities, as well as an enhanced strategic vision for the company to consider.  By employing a standard methodology to the data collection and analysis process, Value Enhancement Solutions ensures that all potential value enhancement opportunities are identified, not just the most obvious and easiest solutions. 

Following a comprehensive review and analysis of all variables of potential importance to each interested party (from both a qualitative and quantitative perspective), and using this intelligence as a guiding beacon, a clear direction for the future of the company emerges, coupled with an executable action plan that details, specifically, how to achieve the company's new goals and objectives. 

Services

Strategic planning involves many interpretations, judgment calls, and decisions that only the leaders charged with the execution of the plan can reasonably make.  As such, Value Enhancement Solutions does not directly develop, nor do we undertake the task of writing business plans.  Why?  Because our professionals do not run the subject company.  The executives do.  Nobody knows the company better than the executives.  Value Enhancement Solutions' unqualified opinions, as well as those of traditional, passe' consultants and other "advisors", as to what we would or would not do in particular situations are therefore immaterial and very likely flawed.  We do not profess to have the answers, but Value Enhancement Solutions will provide the thought-provoking questions that will help companies figure-out the answers on their own, thereby ensuring full ownership of the strategic plan by those responsible for its implementation. 

The reality is that executives do not need supposed external experts to write their company's business plan because the information needed to cultivate new ideas and opportunities - specifically, what to do and how to do it - are already resident within the company via the employees, managers, and other executives.  Value Enhancement Solutions merely provides the tools and expertise to mine and organize those ideas, structuring them into an appropriate form of intelligence that will provide a new competitive advantage for the company. 

Although Value Enhancement Solutions provides a "do-it-yourself" strategic planning solution, our professionals will guide the subject company's executives through our proprietary strategic planning process each step of the way, providing coaching and facilitation support.  Ultimately, Value Enhancement Solutions does not directly do the strategic plan, but we are an additional, value-added resource to help get it done. 

The Future Starts Today

Because Value Enhancement Solutions' proprietary strategic planning process is highly specialized and the pool of experienced facilitation coaches is quite small, our availability for new client engagements is very limited.  This is how we are able to ensure the commitment to our clients and the attention given to each project remain unparalleled. 

Creating a strategic plan with the help of Value Enhancement Solutions and Materiality Mosaic will likely be the most challenging project the corporate executive team has ever accomplished.  But it also will very likely be their most valuable accomplishment. 

If you are a corporate executive, Director, or a representative of an ownership institution in the greater Tri-State, New York City area and would like to learn more about the exclusive products and services of Value Enhancement Solutions, please contact our firm's Principal, Joe McCaffrey.  We are confident you will agree that Value Enhancement Solutions is the perfect solution to enhance the value of your business.