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Topics:
Complete your projects
Developed new business
Create organization cohesion
Plan your business
Harness your creativity
Need: Complete your projects
Problem:
Manage complex projects
Create effective multidiscipline teams
Build coherent productive teams.
Deliver products on time and in budget
Approach:
Working directly with the client’s team, we have managed projects through
effective motivation. The result has been the right product at the right time
and for the expected cost.
As Director for Advanced Technology at the Time Inc. Magazine Company, Paul
Schnitzler led the development of a video-based bindery line monitoring
system. He organized the team, arranged for manufacture, wrote the
training manuals, and directed the installation of the complete systems. All
for one-third the cost of any commercial system.
As VP Engineering at Coastcom, Paul took a stagnant multiplexer development
project, focused the team and brought the product to delivery. By deferring
all non-essential features to version 2, the company was able to quickly
complete the design and move it to production.
As Head, Broadcast System Research for RCA Laboratories, he built a
multidiscipline team to solve the problem of using CCDs in a broadcast
television camera. The project saved the company two months in a one year
project and earned RCA an Emmy for technical excellence.
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Need: Developed new business
Problem:
Identify target markets
Match products to market needs
Approach: Use market
research and personal connections to learn about market needs and identify
prospective customers.
As International Director for Business Development at Cadence Design Systems,
Paul Schnitzler used his personal network to create a $10 million design
services sales pipeline.
For a startup with an exciting new material, he called his own contacts as
well as those of the inventor. He found the one market segment that urgently
needed this special product. The market has a $10 billion potential and the market
for this new product was $100 million.
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Need: Create
organization cohesion
Problem:
Bring groups together: Marketing, Engineering,
Customer Service…
Approach: Use interpersonal skills to enhance communications
between groups.
As VP Engineering at Coastcom,
Paul Schnitzler helped all of these groups listen to each other. As a product
was refined in Engineering, Marketing was consulted to be sure the result was
correct. As it moved through Manufacturing he engaged Customer Technical
Support to get them ready for the release.
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Need: Plan your business
Problem:
Focus teams on business needs
Stimulate strategic thinking
Approach: Start with your sales projections. These will drive
all parts of your planning.
In working with several startups, Paul Schnitzler helped the companies
imagine how their sales will grow. This led directly to the revenue estimates
and staff and facilities needs…And there is your business plan.
While VP Operations at ZMedia, an email-based dot.com, he
recognized that their business paralleled the “bricks-and-mortar” mailing
list business. He started ZMedia’s efforts to strategically enter that arena.
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Need: Harness your creativity
Problem:
Solve your most important business problems
Approach: Critical problems may sometimes seem insurmountable.
That is when you need to be creative.
Paul Schnitzler started a Creativity
Software company to help users find creative solutions to the most
daunting problems. This product was developed in 13 months and actively makes
the user more creative.
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