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Beyond Frameworks: Traits of a Successful Change Manager
Successful change managers are empathetic, curious, versatile, and strategic. They are the organizers, connectors, challengers, and facilitators who bring structure to complex human dynamics during organizational change.
Transforming Vendor Management: Driving Efficiency, Accountability, and Strategic Alignment
A global food and beverage company facing inefficiencies in vendor management partnered with Forum Solutions to overhaul its fragmented processes, standardize operations, and align local execution with national strategy. The transformation delivered enterprise-wide improvements in workflow efficiency, accountability, and millions in cost savings, creating a sustainable foundation for strategic supplier partnerships and operational excellence.
Fearless Innovation & Change: The Art of Strategic Boldness
The most successful businesses do not just adapt to change — they drive it. While innovation styles vary across personalities, leadership approaches, and organizational structures, one element remains constant: the need for fearlessness. However, this fearlessness must be strategic, not reckless.
From Crisis to Growth: How a Retailer Revamped Direct Sales for Long-Term Success
During the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers faced declining business-to-business (B2B) sales and excess inventory. Forum Solutions helped a leading consumer goods retailer achieve significant revenue growth and enhanced customer engagement by helping them implement a direct-to-consumer sales and fulfillment strategy.
Keeping the Customer at the Forefront in Novel Product Development
Successful product innovation hinges on prioritizing real customer needs over novelty for novelty’s sake, emphasizing direct user engagement, co-creation with the customer, agile development, and usability to ensure meaningful impact.
Innovative Solutions for Faster Customer Service and Cost Efficiency
Enabling efficiencies and cost savings for a retail food & beverage company’s launch of new, innovative equipment.
Navigating a Safe Return to the Office with Data-Driven Solutions
Forum Solutions partnered with a global technology and e-commerce leader to support a safe, compliant, and employee-centered return-to-office (RTO) experience. We brought a data-driven mindset to the project through the implementation of an inspection tool, dynamic dashboards, and an agile reporting framework.
The Agile Decision
Agile project management has revolutionized the way businesses deliver solutions by emphasizing iterative development, collaboration, and flexibility. As a result, businesses can respond more swiftly to market changes and customer needs, significantly reducing the time to market.
Inclusion as a Business Strategy
Inclusion is not just a moral imperative; it is a business strategy that leads to better employee engagement, innovation, and resilience. As organizations navigate the complexities of the modern world, those who embrace and actively foster an inclusive culture are better positioned to thrive.
Project Logic: Common-sense Principles for Impactful Project Management, Part 2 of 2
A small number of simple and customizable tools and principles can be used to accomplish most critical aspects of project management, without a ton of formal training.
A Look Forward: Supply Chains, Global Markets and Sustainability
Today, global trade remains as unstable as ever, yet heightened awareness continues to fuel a commitment to readiness, and readiness in turn spurs the formulation of actionable strategies designed to navigate future risks and unforeseen events.
Establishing and Leading an IT Shared Service Organization
Consolidating multiple information technology teams into a shared service organization.
New Product Development Process Enables Soaring Growth
An international hard goods product developer and manufacturer experienced steep year-over-year business growth that more than doubled the number of products in development highlighting their limited resources and formerly invisible process inefficiencies that presented formidable obstacles to scaling with new demand.
COVID, Politics and Shortening your Supply Chain
From boardrooms to dining rooms, businesses and consumers are experiencing the effects of supply chains in disarray. Business leaders need to prepare their organizations for the future.
Enterprise Strategy Department Organization Primer - Part 2 of 2
All organizations have limited resources, so it is critical to determine the objectives and initiatives that are most important to the organization and say “no” to those that are not a priority. To develop an effective strategy, leaders must prioritize goals and objectives, requiring due diligence, prioritization, and planning to make the best use of scarce resources. In part two of a two-part series, Arkan Kayihan shares Expanded Functions for Strategy Planning & Strategy Development teams.
Enterprise Strategy Department Organization Primer - Part 1 of 2
All organizations have limited resources, so it is critical to determine the objectives and initiatives that are most important to the organization and say “no” to those that are not a priority. To develop an effective strategy, leaders must prioritize goals and objectives, requiring due diligence, prioritization, and planning to make the best use of scarce resources. In part one of a two-part series, Arkan Kayihan shares Core Functions for Strategy Planning & Strategy Development teams.
An Integrated Approach for Maximizing Strategy Realization: The Enterprise Planning Lifecycle - Part 4 of 4
Strategic planning is a key function of all enterprises. Whether running a Fortune 50 company or a non-profit organization, it is critical to prioritize resources and activities to maximize organizational objectives and align employees around a common vision. Despite being such a critical function, many organizations struggle to realize their strategic objectives. In this four-part series, Forum Solutions’ senior associate, Arkan Kayihan provides an approach to developing and deploying a robust Enterprise Planning Lifecycle to maximize strategy development and realization.
An Integrated Approach for Maximizing Strategy Realization: The Enterprise Planning Lifecycle - Part 3 of 4
Strategic planning is a key function of all enterprises. Whether running a Fortune 50 company or a non-profit organization, it is critical to prioritize resources and activities to maximize organizational objectives and align employees around a common vision. Despite being such a critical function, many organizations struggle to realize their strategic objectives. In this four-part series, Forum Solutions’ senior associate, Arkan Kayihan provides an approach to developing and deploying a robust Enterprise Planning Lifecycle to maximize strategy development and realization.
An Integrated Approach for Maximizing Strategy Realization: The Enterprise Planning Lifecycle - Part 2 of 4
Strategic planning is a key function of all enterprises. Whether running a Fortune 50 company or a non-profit organization, it is critical to prioritize resources and activities to maximize organizational objectives and align employees around a common vision. Despite being such a critical function, many organizations struggle to realize their strategic objectives. In this four-part series, Forum Solutions’ senior associate, Arkan Kayihan provides an approach to developing and deploying a robust Enterprise Planning Lifecycle to maximize strategy development and realization.
An Integrated Approach for Maximizing Strategy Realization: The Enterprise Planning Lifecycle - Part 1 of 4
Strategic planning is a key function of all enterprises. Whether running a Fortune 50 company or a non-profit organization, it is critical to prioritize resources and activities to maximize organizational objectives and align employees around a common vision. Despite being such a critical function, many organizations struggle to realize their strategic objectives. In this four-part series, Forum Solutions’ senior associate, Arkan Kayihan provides an approach to developing and deploying a robust Enterprise Planning Lifecycle to maximize strategy development and realization.