Business Performance Improvement (Strategy, Operations, Management System)
Greater New York City Area
- Current
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- Principal and Founder at Llinlithgow Associates
- Past
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- Director, Strategy & Business Architecture at Avaya
- Director, Solutions at Avaya
- Director, Enterprise Product Management at Viewlocity
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- Univ. of Wyoming
- Johnston College, Univ. of Redlands
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Dave Livingston’s Summary
Llinlithgow Assoc. is a management consultancy focused on helping improve Total Enterprise Performance by balancing and integrating Strategy with Operational Execution. We work with both investors and operating companies to achieve their goals in value development and investment returns by focusing on three major elements. One - establish a management system and operating plan blueprint to translate those goals into actionable initiatives. Two – develop specific initiatives in critical functional areas that offer significant benefits. Finally - work collaboratively to implement our recommendations based on an incremental, structured methodology that turns short-term improvements into sustainable, long-term performance.
We ask, and investigate, a straightforward set of key questions. And then look to find the best ways to achieve the largest improvements at the lowest cost. We start with the basic business value proposition and then assess the marketing and sales programs for alignment and cost vs. returns. Similarly we then examine key complementary operating functions like customer service, procurement and logistics. Finally we translate those findings into an operating plan and management system. That translation results in an operating blueprint that matches requirements against capabilities.
Dave Livingston’s Specialties:
Developing an inter-locked set of initiatives, built on the operating plan blueprint, is the heart of our methodology, called bizzXcel. Special functional expertise in Technology, Product Development and Management, Go-to-Market (Market Planning, Marketing, Sales), Logistics & SCM (Customer Service, Procurement, Transportation) and Management Systems Design is used to flesh out detailed components of the Operating Plan Blueprint.
