Competitiveness Leadership Why SSG

The Difference We Offer Founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1993, SSG is a mature firm of seasoned baby boomer practitioners who exceed the old paradigm of management consultants to serve as resource partners. We offer a service model of hands-on counsel to your senior executive team that is immediate and direct (unlayered, personal attention; accessible and responsive). You absorb our resources as a seamless extension of your own. As a result, we deliver best competencies such as strategic analysis and strategy development uniquely strengthened by the street smarts of an inventive mindset that can only come from actually implementing what we recommend and plan. Our experience comes from working in the trenches, on a continuum, where rubber hits the road of everyday marketplace reality. We offer uncommon strategic insight into where the world is right now; successfully navigating the transforming context of a new paradigm that requires you redefine competitiveness to meet heightened expectations of responsibility. Unlike agencies that have traditionally perceived “strategy” as designing the utility of marketing and communications tactics, we operate well beyond the worn cliché of “integrated” marketing communications. Our services holistically address the organizational development and stakeholder issues that impact your performance. We work with your organization and leader behavior as well as your marketplace actions. Some firms tout their years of experience in a specific industry as the reason for working with them. They have neck-deep allegiances to the cultural traditions and assumed (‘tried and true’) way of doing things. As a result, many leaders are applying solutions to problems using the same strategic framework in which the problems were created! Today, assuming anything is risky at best, and applying the ‘tried and true’ is likely to produce… well? SSG offers experience in a diversity of industries, professions, markets, and paradigms to offer an array of proven intelligence and best practices that can be applied to your assignment. While respecting tradition and cultural norms, we are entrepreneurial by bloodline. Business breakthroughs are achieved in the arena of boundless possibility, rather than the box of categorical or conditional assumptions. Why SSG, now? A high touch, rapid-response client service business model. Skillful at handling the challenging circumstances of organizational transformation. An approach that achieves objectives by building sustainable advantage. Adept at identifying and navigating the best path to your next horizon of opportunity. Translates the intelligence and proven best practices of other industries to your assignment. Successful at building consensus among divergent groups, or mitigating the opposition forces, that can impact your agenda. Delivers the confidential and trusted support required by leaders who are pioneers or trailblazers in their respective domain. Due diligence skills (research, analysis, impact assessment) that cater to what C-suite leaders need for better decision making. Uncommon ability to ‘crack the code’ of advanced concepts, complex issues, or intricate technology. Baby boomers who refuse to abdicate their passion to the easy cynicism of our times. Everyday pursuit of excellence, not as an act but a habit. Results you can’t live without.