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Strategic Ideation Inc. is a broad-spectrum general management consulting organization. Founded in 1964, it serves clients around the globe from its corporate offices in Alameda, California.
Our founder and chairman, Tom Billings, is a veteran Silicon Valley executive with both a B.A. and M.B.A. from Harvard.
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We are skilled in assisting our clients with: comprehensive business planning, long range corporate strategy, acquisitions and mergers, right-sizing and organization re-structuring, economic and technological feasibility studies, conceptualization of profitable new ventures, cost containment, and profit maximization.
On the sales and marketing front, we assist with conceptualization and design of new products and services, analysis of marketing opportunities, consumer preference studies, public opinion surveys, motivational research, sales force and promotion management, advertising campaigns, direct mail merchandising, telemarketing, e-commerce and web marketing, and distribution channel management.
Our expertise in the realm of human resources extends to executive and professional search, technical staff recruitment, design of compensation plans, employee motivation and benefit programs, ergonomis and usability engineering, and labor relations and negotiations.
We regularly assist with corporate financial management, design and implementation of budgetary controls and and overall internal control systems, interim portfolio management, and risk analysis.
We assist with corporate communications by designing and writing annual and quarterly reports, writing executive speeches and articles, handling financial public and press relations and marketing communications, producing in-house publications, doing technical writing and editing, and managing participation in trade shows.
Our role in technological innovation and engineering includes external product design, business systems analysis, proof of concept, computer applications design, test regimens and quality assurance programs, and human factors assessments.
Other diverse capabilities include space layout and facilities engineering, project and program management, definition of policies and procedures, operational systems design, staffing and scheduling management, cost minimization and control, procurement, manufacturing, contracting, legal affairs, regulatory compliance, and process analysis and optimaization.
Our forte is special situations including turn-around management, start-up and early stage enterprises, new ventures, and initial public offierings.
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Representative clients have included:
The American Majority Party
The Association Service Corporation
Assurant Software Inc.
Automated Data Processing
Beatrice Foods Corporation
The Boston Consulting Group
Digital Broadcasting Corp.
Ethnic Epicure Books
Franchise Management Corp.
General Motors Corp.
Harrods Hotel and Casino Corp.
Harte-Hanks Communications Inc.
Insignia Solutions Systems Emulation Software plc
John Norton Farms
Keller-Haver Advertising
McCormick Engineering Corp.
The Millennium Three Foundation
Miller Brewing Company
The Mother Earth News
Music Circus Inc.
The National Allergy Foundation
The National Enquirer
The National Rifle Association
beron International OCR Peripherals Ltd.
Oro Diablo Gold Mining Corp.
The Psychological Corporation
Ramada Inns Inc.
Rapid Merchandising Corp.
Recorder Printing and Publishing Co.
Saga Systems Inc.
San Diego 200th Anniversary Exposition
The Remembrance Society
Seminar Resources Inc.
U.S. Borax Corporation
Victor Technologies Inc.
The Wilderness Fund
Willcox Computer and Software Systems Ltd.
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To find out more about us, click on any of the links on this page or e-mail us using the e-mail address link below.
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