Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or possibly in Arizona where you might not have noticed), you know that the spring weather across the Midwest has been terrible - too cold, too wet, too snowy. Adding add insult to injury, it all started after the New England Patriots won the most boring Super Bowl in history. Coincidence? Probably, but annoying, nonetheless. The spring weather has monopolized market analysts’ attention in an Amazonesque manner. At the beginning, it was a welcome relief from the trade war analysis, but the cries of delayed planting and yield losses have since become as predictable as James Holzhauer winning Jeopardy! To give our readers a reprieve from more weather analysis, this article offers a technic...
Weighing in on strategic realignment
WPI’s team was retained by the governing board of a U.S. industry organization to review a decision, reached by vote, to invest significant assets into the development and management of an export trading company. WPI’s team conducted a formal review of this decision and concluded that the current level of market saturation would limit the benefits of the investment. Based on WPI’s analysis and recommended actions, the board subsequently reversed its decision and undertook a strategic planning effort to identify more impactful investments. On behalf of numerous clients, WPI has not only assisted in identifying strategic paths but also advised their implementation.