LAUNCH! Consulting Group can help start, transform, and turn-around your business. LAUNCH! has unique access to a plethora of market and industry reports as well as a powerful network of skilled consultants. We help you to think in new ways, bring in new capabilities, and increase the likelihood of successful implementations with proven strategies and deep industry experience. Learn more about what we do below and sign up for an initial consultation.
CONSULTING
AI STRATEGY
AI Strategy Team
We have 60+ years of experience developing cutting-edge technology and are using it to help enterprises to create their Future-of-Work. Based on market demand and technology trends we are currently focusing our efforts on AI. Our market research shows that more than half of organizations want to integrate AI into their organizations but aren’t sure how to. We help them to build out a competitive AI strategy that shows them the best places to invest in AI for their business, how to go about doing it, and how to measure success.
We then come up with and incubate new AI solutions, which we then offer companies to try out or pilot before fully integrating into their business to capture the full ROI.
WHY US?
We provide an objective view for your AI strategy. We don’t fit your business to our solutions like many AI vendors, instead we fit our solutions to you, giving you the best possible outcome that is right for your business.
Other Services
DISRUPTION LAB
Systematically find ways to disrupt and challenge your business internally and externally. Perform competitive analysis, creating a watchlist of
INNOVATION ENGINE & PILOTS
Innovation can be undermined by business-as-usual operations and ingrained bureaucracy, and visa
INNOVATION & EFFICIENCY BALANCER
Finding the balance between implementing bureaucracy and processes with creative innovation can be tough to navigate. LAUNCH! helps companies struggling with this issue by performing an organizational assessment using a framework to determine the right balance that is needed. We then create a plan of what process and innovation mechanisms will have the most impact and harmony. Depending on the degree needed of each, oftentimes it is counter-productive to have them exist under the same roof. If that is the case then LAUNCH! will work with you to create an Innovation Engine.
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS ASSESSMENT
Launch! will assess your current technology eco-system in order to find opportunities and advantages to advance your tech-capital and capabilities. We know the tech landscape and have touch points on emerging opportunities which allows us to develop competitive and sustainable, plug & play solutions to one-up your company.
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTATION
Technical implementations are generally sophisticated and complex, requiring expert management of various stakeholders, risks, and budget. LAUNCH! has this expertise and will project manage your tech-solutions implementation from start to finish. Reduce risks, save budget, and satisfy stakeholders with LAUNCH!’s help.
ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Perform strategic change implementation and create change sustainability.
AUTOMATE MY JOB PROGRAM
For companies daring enough to disrupt themselves, Automate My Job is a program by LAUNCH! that facilitates an employee challenge to automate their jobs with a job security guarantee. Employees won’t automate their jobs without proper incentive. LAUNCH! has designed a program that creates an incentivized opportunity for employees to move up without fear for losing their job. Employees who automate their job are given new development opportunities and create new positions for themselves that provide greater value to the company.
ORGANIZATIONAL GOAL PLANNING & STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
Facilitate annual goal planning and strategy development to create capabilities, enhance market position, and increase profits. We perform market and competitive research to help benchmark and reposition your company, set global and domestic agendas, and develop plans to see them through to success. Global strategy is our specialty with expertise in Asian and Latin American markets.
ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT & DESIGN
Design and align organizational structures, roles, and processes to strategies and goals.
CULTIVATE CULTURE
Culture can be one of your most powerful business drivers and competitive advantages. Rebuild and enhance your culture so that it supports your strategy and fits with your organizational design and business environment. We do this by building an appropriate cultural identity, providing leadership coaching, and deploying mechanisms such as control systems, rites, ceremonies, symbols, and stories to enact change.
MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS
Design, pilot, and deploy management control systems (MCS) to drive performance and gain compliance. Mitigate employee gaming and develop effective incentives that attract and retain the talent you want. Develop balanced scorecards with appropriate and measurable metrics to tie appropriate compensation rewards to.
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM
Design and launch an employee engagement program (EEP) that incentivizes employees and drives performance.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
LAUNCH! creates comprehensive professional development programs custom tailored to your human capital strategy and objectives. Programs aim to increase the capabilities, engagement, and retention of your talent.
SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM
Develop and deploy sustainability initiatives that compliment your profitability objectives and measure impact. Create measurable sustainability strategies that affect
BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENT & IMPLEMENTATION
LAUNCH! will assess your business processes from head to toe and identify the greatest opportunities for achieving peak performance and ROI that directly affect the performance of your organizations KPIs. The assessment is focused on how well you achieve your operational objectives, such as revenue growth, operational efficiency, compliance with laws and regulations, public perception, corporate responsibility and market leadership, as well as customer and employee satisfaction. Processes are assessed against current competitive benchmark capabilities ensuring that your improvements not only improve your bottom line but are competitive. We then layout and deliver our implementation plan which helps incoming CEOs and business managers take ownership for boosting profits.
LEAN 6-SIGMA IMPLEMENTATION
LAUNCH! specializes in what has been coined The Lean Digital Six Sigma, a systematic process improvement technique tailored for the modern tech-age that is designed to improve customer satisfaction and end products. This technique has saved GE $12 billion over 5 years. LAUNCH! helps facilitate this scaled cost savings by working with your company to identify and eliminate defects, variations, and waste that hinder profit margins and delivery of quality. We then ensure that the changes we make together stick through change management best practices and monitorable controls.
MISSION & VALUE REFRESH
Facilitate a creative company-wide workshop to refresh your mission and values that resonate with customers and drives employees. We recommend
PMO LAUNCHER
Organizations that deal with atypical business processes and events that don’t fit within standard processes can scale their work by creating a PMO (Project Management Office). Launch! helps companies transition into project-based organizations by establishing a PMO to effectively streamline work from a portfolio perspective. PMOs have shown to improve communication and deliver projects faster within scope and budget, improving your productivity and output.