Your Need  Today, with downsizing and high staff costs, companies of all sizes have weak points in their management team's capabilities. With the current complex and competitive business environment, it is essential that all companies maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses. Whether the weakness is in administration, finance, marketing, sales, production planning, product development, international business development, strategic planning or corporate culture management/evolution, Abbot/Partners may be the answer.  Our Mission  The mission of Abbot/Partners is to cost effectively augment its clients' management teams with executive(s) who possess a broad range of talent and sophisticated experience on an as-needed/when-needed basis. If the need is permanent, Abbot/Partners will initially provide an interim executive(s) to get working now and will recruit and train the necessary executive(s) to provide a long term solution.  Our Terms of Engagement  Abbot/Partners prices are reasonable and within the budget of our clients. Because of our experience, a good deal of the work we perform for our clients is "predictable". Thus, there are built-in economies of scale which we are able to pass on to our clients.

Business Startup => Business plan development => Funding   => Business plan      implementation    General Business Management => Daily Operations   => Department co-ordination   => Supervision of:      -> Finance Function      -> Legal Function      -> Negotiations   => Capital facilities      planning, programming,      and development   => Organizational analysis      and development   => Workflow and productivity      improvement   => Program design and      evaluation   => Management systems      development and operation   => Project management   => Policies and procedures      analysis   On-Going Business Development => Analysis of static      business situation   => Development and      implementation of plan to      get from here to there

=> Real-time performance      tracking and feedback      systems   => Real-time adjustment based      on results   => Corporate culture      management/evolution   Marketing => Package design and      development   => Collateral design and      development   => Market definition   => Product formulations   => Niche market definition   => Pricing strategies   => Advertising   => Community and media relations   => Internet strategy      development and channel      management      -> Web design      -> Web maintenance      -> Web marketing  Sales => Franchise system      development   => Channel development   => Program development   => Short and long-term goal      oriented quota development   => Team development and      management

Production => Quality Assurance/Quality     Control  => Production planning  => Co-ordination with sales     planning  => Inventory control  => Process development and     control  => Vendor development  => Value analysis/management  International => Opportunity definition  => Strategic and tactical     plan development  => Trade finance  => Relationship development  => Government requirements  => Negotiation     -> Private sector     -> Public sector  => Supervision of project     implementation  => Progress assessment and     adjustment  => Geographic emphasis     -> Asia     -> The Americas   Constituent Management => Public Affairs  => Community Relations  => Government Affairs