White Papers

NEW - The Broken Strategy Alignment Process - Too many organizations fail to execute strategy effectively. CEOs and staff are both frustrated by the situation. Read this report to understand the problems and the steps you can take to fix this problem.

The Four Building Blocks of a Growth-Oriented Culture - Learn how you can unlock your teams potential and jumpstart profitable growth. If you are seeking a way to get your company focused on growth read this report. We provide you with a framework for transforming your company's culture into a growth oriented organization.

Fixing the Late New Product Problem - Do you suffer from the late new product syndrome? Does it seem like new products never get completed when scheduled? If so, this white paper is for you. We help you uncover the problems that cause new products to be late and provide you with opportunities for action that will help you get new products back on schedule.

Over 100 New Product Development Best Practices - Do you wonder whether you have a world class new product development process? This report compiles over 100 best practices for new product development. We show you best practices for customer requirement definition, strategy, concept definition and selection, product launch, metrics, process management and more.

Jumpstart Inventory Productivity: Using Speed and Information to Improve Inventory Utilization - Your supply chain is one of your most important leverage points for profitable growth. Too many supply chains are too slow and un-responsive. You will get practical insights from this whitepaper into how you can improve your supply chain performance.

On the Importance of Lead-Times - If your company is like most, you've undertaken multiple initiatives in the last 5-10 years to take inventory out of the supply chain. Unfortunately, such initiatives frequently gloss over the topic of lead-times, using worst-case lead-time scenarios as the assumptions that feed new planning systems. These assumptions are rarely if ever updated, and worse yet, little if anything is done to improve actually lead-time performance. In fact, lead-time is one of the most important factors that drive cycle and safety stock, and tremendous gains can be realized by focusing on and improving lead-times.

Turning Working Capital into Free Cash Flow - Working capital represents the hard cash that is required to run a business day-to-day. Effective working capital management can be the lynchpin to making growth profitable - it's what Dell Computer has focused on in order to dominate the computer industry. But because it doesn't show up in most P&Ls or divisional budgets, working capital typically receives less attention from management than it deserves. The result, excess working capital, means that too much cash is tied up in running the enterprise, too much capital is required to grow the enterprise, and the business faces unnecessary exposure by holding on to assets that are much riskier than cash. Learn more in this whitepaper about actions you can take to turn working capital into cash.

Turnarounds and Crisis Management - By the time a company reaches the point that a turnaround is required, management attention is typically consumed by chaos and crisis. In these circumstances, Coplenish becomes management's SWAT team to quickly understand and stabilize the situation. Learm more about our approach to turnarounds and crisis management in this whitepaper.