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Sigrid Caroline Schroder - US/CAN (877) 462-4035 - Assessment & Intervention

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Prevention Is Better Than A Cure                          

So many of the crises we see every day could have been prevented.   A good project moves with a certain flow and no one wants to pause to consider real and potential flaws, risking the momentum and enthusiasm of the team.  Elsewhere, problems are allowed to fester; critical issues get neglected in the flow of daily events and larger pressures.   While some crises cannot be foreseen, all too often vulnerabilities are missed which together generate the fatal flaw which results in the ultimate crisis.  Certainly bad things do happen and crises hit regardless of the thought, planning, and commitment which are invested, but those are crises which can be borne, resolved and consigned to the past.  With strength, thought, and inspiration, one can rebound from crisis; crisis turns to revival.  The greatest danger is to get stuck in the repetitive crisis cycle, living and managing from crisis to crisis, while stress, fear, and external events drive reaction and indecision.  Confusion produces reluctance to intervene.  Crisis life-cycle management  deals with crisis head on where crisis starts:  with the vulnerabilities, mistaken judgments and festering problems which devolve into crisis and undermine the future. 

 

Method and Philosophy

Caroline assesses clients' businesses and circumstances to forecast and prevent crises, mitigate and resolve active crises, and encourage rebound of businesses by breaking the repetitive crisis cycle. Resolution may include business conciliation, neutral evaluation or facilitated negotiation. Her goal is to reduce the frequency and costs of transactional disputes, operational crises, personnel conflicts, and litigation.

 

Through 4Dimensional Assessment (TM) Caroline analyzes your entire circumstances through time, looking back through business history and forward through your goals.  She has particular facility with issues including: intellectual property, employment, executive employment, customer and partner relationships, environment, governance, and real estate.

 

Long-Range Value 

Caroline can help guide strategic planning, development, risk assessment and turnaround. She helps US and foreign clients identify opportunities as well as risks, rationalize business models and business plans, develop products, restructure teams, redirect and broaden talent, and initiate strategic alliances.  She can help realign splintered management and guide turnaround. She has helped clients hone their presentations, identify opportunities and succeed in fundraising.  With degree and background in geology, she understands the earth sciences and landforms critical to your environmental assessments.  She partners with her clients to craft successful long-term business strategies amid the dynamic uncertainties of global regulatory, technological, and economic environments.  She helps you get where you want to go.

 
 
Understand the Consequences  -  Think It Through
Caroline is an attorney and consultant who specializes in crisis life-cycle management. She helps clients prevent, resolve and rebound from crisis. This approach may reduce the frequency and costs of transactional disputes, operational crises, and litigation.
Assessment  -  Mitigation  -  Conciliation  -  Revival
4 DIMENSIONAL ASSESSMENT(TM) 
 


 

CRISIS RESOLUTION:

DEVELOPING CRISES

  • Real-Time and Historical 4D Assessment
  • Pinpoint Problem Solving
  • Cost/Benefit Balancing
  • Neutral Independent
    • Facilitated Negotiations
    • Independent Evaluation
    • Concilitation


GUIDANCE FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT & REVIVAL:

SME ESTABLISHED COMPANIES

  • Adapt to Change & Refocus
  • Diversify Organically
  • Eliminate Tangents
  • Re/Construct the Business Model
  • Diversify by Acquisition
  • Adapt the Workforce

LARGE COMPANIES

  • Expand Radar to Outliers
  • CXO Sounding Board
  • Identify X, Y, Z Cultural Solutions
  • Identify Next Wave Trends
DIRECTORS
  • Filter Reports
  • Flag Factors for Risk
  • Develop & Balance Facts & Factors
  • Develop Cost/Benefit Analysis
  • Identify Outside Trends
  • Anticipate Change
  • Plan & Execute Transition
  •  
    Prepare Adaptation
  • Plan & Execute Transition
  • Debunker Leaders in Crisis
  • Control Panic in Crisis
  • Rebalance Debate for Action
  • Guide Implementation of Action
  • Develop Teams for Skills
  • Align Perspectives
  • Develop Path & Execution

DEVELOPING COMPANIES

  • Hone the Model
  • Move to the Next Level
  • Motivate  the Board
  • Build Alliances
  • Adapt to Change
  • Adapt to Reality
  • Open New Orgnaizational Roles
  • Diversify Niches
  • Approach New Markets
  • Adapt the Workforce
    ENTREPRENEURS
    • Rationalize Model for Skills
    • Assess Reality of Potentials
    • Survey External Facts/Factors
    • Rationalize Core Competencies
    • Foresee Change
    • Balance  Risk 
    • Adapt to Change
    • Control Panic in Crisis
    • Develop Situational Reponses
    • Identify Synergies for Strategic Alliance
    • Assess Plans & Execution 
    • Balance & Coordinate Teams

    FOUNDERS

    • Build the Model
    • Develop Management Team & Board of Directors
    • Develop Structure
    • Develop Presentations
    • Form Operations
    • Protect IP
    • Survive


      IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES:

      BUSINESS MODELS & PLANS

      • Build the Model & the Plan

      • Early Stage Development
      • Execution
      • New Niches & Applications
      • New Alliances
      • Understand Investor Requirments

      COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS

      • Product
      • Market
      • Identify Outlier Niches
      • Identify Vacant Niches
      • Alternative Applications of What You Do
      • Next Wave Applications-Future Trends

      PRODUCTS

      • Acquisitions
      • Collaboration
      • Co-development
      • Cross-Marketing
      • Distributive Production
      • Licensing

      WORKFORCE
      • Operational Innovation
      • Functional Innovation 
      • Behavioral Training
      • Trade Secret Training
      • IP Training
      • Collaboration Training
      • Cross-Team Communication

      CUSTOMERS

      • Customer Innovation
      • Innovative Suggestions
      • Market Suggestions
      • Customer Perspective
      • New Customer Niches

      DEVELOP SECURE BRANDS

      • Develop Barriers to Entry 
      • Assess Market Relationships
      • Assess Intellectual Capital
      • Encourage Innovation
      • Capture Developing IP
      • Secure Trade Secrets 
      • Secure IP
      • Innovate Processes
      • Renew and Renovate Structure
      • Anticipate Shifts in IP Trends
      • Monitor Regional & Global IP
         
      • IP Risk Training
      • Brand Value Training

      GROOM FOR SALE / RAISE CAPITAL

      • Hone the Model 
      • Rationalize the Model
      • Rationalize the Plan
      • Rationalize the Assets
      • Develop the Presentation 
      • Identify Your Own Best Buyer
      • Define the Ideal Investor 
      • Preset Parameters
      • Know Your Buyers/Investors
      • Filter Buyers/Investors
      • Assess Transitions
      • Ass
        ess Integration


      DEVELOP SOLUTIONS:

      BUSINESS MODELS/PLANS

      • Re-Construct Model/Plan
      • Refine Structure
      • Debug Flaws
      • Adapt to Changes World
      • Review & Challenge
      • Functional Guidance
      • Understand Effects of Contracts/Leases/Licenses

      REGULATORY ANALYSIS

      • Single Issue / Issue Sets
      • Monitor Legislation
      • Monitor Regulation
      • Define Trends
      • Monitor Enforcement
      • Anticipate Threats
      • Identify Problems
      PRODUCTS
      • Marketing Review
      • Advertising Guidance
      • Problem Identification
      • Process Flaw Scrutiny
      • Production Anomalies 
      WORKFORCE
      • Noncompete Review
      • FCPA Review
      • Risk Review
      • Conflict Pre-emption
      • Team Resolutions
      • Monitor Ex-employees' Next Gigs

      COMPETITIVENESS

      • ID Direct/Indirect/Potential Competition
      • ID Marketing Threats
      • ID Patent Infringement
      • ID Product Trends/Threats
      • ID Technology Trends/Threats
      • ID Sentimental Threats
      • Preserve Competitiveness
      • Pre-empt Obsolescence
      • Patrol Competition
       
      CUSTOMERS
      • Complaint  Solutions
      • Complaint Avoidance
      • Complaint to Innovation
      • Adaptation
      • New Niches
      • Develop Alliances

       

      ACQUISITIONS
      • Develop Parameters for Acquisitions
      •  
        Build Screens
      • Rethink Future Path
        • Identify Industry Trends
        • Identify  Collaboration
        • Size up Potential Targets/Threats
        • Assess Risks/Benfits
        • Assess Climate for Change
        • Focus on Target Reality
        • Oversee Diligence 


      Expats E, L, EB-5

      • Understand the Business, Social and Geographical Landscape
      • Lever Cultural Trends & Synergies
      • Pre-empt Cultural Dissonances
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        I SPOT WHAT OTHER EXPERTS MISS...
         

         Dilemma  >> Resolution 

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