Company Name: EMERSON MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS Tel: 805.522.4300
Accredited Executive Associate with the Institute for Independent Business (www.iib.org.uk) Emerson Management Solutions (EMS) is a consulting practice that provides timely and practical advice to small and medium-sized independent business owners / managers. With accreditation by The Institute for Independent Business (IIB), Douglas Howe, Founder and Principal of Emerson Management Solutions (EMS), provides assistance in a number of areas, including obtaining public or private funding, increasing sales and profits, reducing debt, E-commerce & technology challenges, recruiting top talent, developing exit strategies, time and resource management issues, and government rules and regulations. We offer broad, diversified experience across a variety of industries and business disciplines to provide practical solutions to the challenges and changes you face in today’s highly competitive marketplace. We help you make the best choices going forward. Whether your need is a single, targeted short-term project or strategic business or marketing plan and programs, EMS is your outsourced solution, allowing you to reduce operational risk and avoid overhead costs while having access to high quality, experienced management. Through creative and focused programs, we effectively identify emerging opportunities and help empower the client team to outstanding achievement. Our Mission & Methods are designed to support senior management in organizations that lack the resident expertise, "bandwidth," or funding to provide full-service management activities for their team. At the same time, our clients deal with experts in their field, realize reduced operational risk and avoid overhead costs, both salary and non-salary related. Since 1981, Douglas E. Howe, Principal in Emerson Management Solutions, has specialized in business development and general management, including turnarounds and restructurings of established companies and launches of pre-revenue start-up operations. His successes include projects across a variety of high technology industries and applications. Based in Simi Valley, California, Emerson Management Solutions is positioned to provide a highly skilled, cost effective resource primarily for small-to-medium sized independent businesses that can benefit from high quality, focused and experienced management support for their team. Contact us today to see how we can be a valuable support asset for your company and save potentially thousands of dollars in infrastructure costs while helping you find and retain new customers and build your business. CONSULTANT PROFILEDouglas E. Howe is a 25-year veteran of successful new business start-ups in the technology sector, both in large companies as well as pre-revenue commercial enterprises. He specializes in strategic business development and general management to successfully launch new businesses and deliver strong revenue and profit gains in established companies. He holds a BA in Languages from Defiance College and an MBA in Marketing from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a former jet attack pilot with the U.S. Navy, having accumulated 185 combat missions and over 300 carrier landings. Mr. Howe has received accreditation by the Institute for Independent Business, an international not-for-profit business support organization. Its purpose is to bring timely and practical advice to independent business owners. His mission is to expand the Institute's presence in Ventura, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties. SELECTED PROJECT PORTFOLIOProject to start-up / spin-off commercial business for $100mm government/aerospace company Industry:HDTV video digital imaging Challenge: Determine commercial feasibility and value of company's IP in advanced HDTV digital imaging Technology:High-performance CMOS-based HDTV image sensors Solution: ProCamHD™ family of HDTV image sensors for a variety of video camera applications Results: Successful post-revenue spin-off of business unit from Parent company Project for $125 million international distribution business Industry: Consumer Electronics Challenge: Rapid (10-month) analysis and adjustment of internal drivers and external focus to financially survive Solution: Assembled team; created 100-day plan for critical goals; long-term goals for financial survival Results: Sales revenue up 15%, profits up 134%, operating costs down 17%, obsolete inventory reduced 60%, and employee turnover down from 30% to 10% Project for $330 million consumer packaged goods company Industry: Consumer packaged goods - seafood products Challenge: Sizeable inventory of specialty seafood product was approaching its shelf-life limit and potential write-down Solution: Designed and executed nationwide promotion campaign targeting an ethnic group national celebration day to spur one-time sales volume Results: Sales increased 300% over the same prior year period, liquidating remaining inventory and creating out-of-stock situation |