ALACRITY INC.

Moving Forward

Sample Portfolio of Work

 Business Planning

  • Strategic and Financial Planning - Helped businesses in telecommunications, finance, pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods, insurance and energy sectors create strategic and financial analysis through facilitation and using a software system with expert rules and plan writing capability
  • Resource Allocation - Helped pharmaceutical business track and determine resource allocation strategy
  • Financial Budgeting - Developed and delivered training program to help branch managers of credit union rapidly develop business plan and annual budget. The training included use of a specially developed plan writing software
  • Public Sector Business Planning - Developed activity based method to help a public sector organization adopt annual planning
  • Planning for Non-profit Organization - Helped spiritual organization develop plans to operate a center using volunteer resources
  • Publishing Business Planning - Facilitated planning for a print publisher to strengthen print business.
  • Small Business Planning - Help small businesses develop business plans rapidly through planning software. The software available in 4 languages was distributed in US, Canada, Mexico, Denmark and Germany

 Branding and Product Management

  • Consumer Brands Management in these categories - personal care and food
  • Brand Advertising - household care, personal care and heating
  • Corporate Advertising - oil
  • Marketing Planning - helped marketing team develop marketing plans for telecommunications organization

Project Management

  • Developed Project Management Process for telecommunications and eLearning organizations
  • Managed Project Management Office for international consulting and implementation of software system
  • Trained and Managed Project Managers in US, Canada, Europe and Asia

New Product Development

  • Facilitated new product development and evaluation using Gating Process. Developed software and supporting manual and templates. Trained cross-functional teams to adopt these processes
  • Developed and Marketed Software to assist, as well as provided training in concept development, selection of new products, and modeling the adoption curve
  • Managed new product development of consumer brands

Management Development

  • Leadership and management coaching to senior executives
  • Developed process for assessing organizational learning needs, customizing eLearning Management System, implementing the systems and training end users for clients in automotive, telecommunications and financial institutions
  • Developed project management teams for implementing software internationally
  • Developed and facilitated business simulation software for training managers in product life cycle, competitive analysis and inter-functional cooperation
  • Delivered MBA level training in strategy in business school

Operational Modeling

  • Developed IT resources modeling through cascading strategic objectives to functional objectives and projects for pharmaceutical company
  • Developed a steel making model which uses operational data to monitor performance measures for a mini-steel operation
  • Created business model for a Broadband start up to simulate different product lines and staged operational rollout
  • Used Resource Allocation modeling to help pharmaceutical organization analyze opportunities of different products and lines of business
  • Developed performance metrics system for measuring the different stages of water purification in plants across a municipality
  • Developed performance metric system for measuring the distribution of clean water supply to different storage points in a municipality

Software Development

  • Developed software development process for telecommunications organization
  • Managed developers for eLearning software customization process
  • Managed development team for business planning and performance measures software
  • Delivered business analysis for performance modeling application
  • Subject matter expert on business expert systems

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About Mary Chung

Sample Consulting Work

Riding the Tiger