Expertise Overview

Our Expertise

The Razorwest team of consultants and recruiters has provided high quality and accurate market expertise to dozens of organizations ranging from start-up firms to Fortune 500 companies and large government agencies. Here are a few examples of our experience:

Reduce the average cost of hiring

For one of the largest providers of accounting services to government contractors,� recruited a large number of new full-time employees. Through our Recruitment Outsourcing service, the firm was able to redirect internal resources, focus more on core business, and reduce the average cost of hiring by approximately 300% per new hire.

Attracting the right talent and hiring employees

For a mid-sized, Richmond-based BPO firm, recruited internal staff. Through our Direct Placement services, the firm was able to attract and hire quickly and remain focused on their core business.

Resolving internal conflicts successfully

For wholesale lender and provider of business services with over $40 billion in assets, formed discussion sessions aimed at developing integrated strategies to realize the chairman's vision.�The discussion sessions enabled the group to surface their conflicts in a safe arena.� Here they could defuse their conflicts and realize that the only road to success for any of them lay in the direction of working together for the good of all.� The conflicts, while not easy to manage, became the basis for succeeding.

Creating working groups to generate results

For one of the most exclusive prep schools in the United States, helped prepare the school community against the threat of human pandemic influenza raised by the recurring avian influenza. An exploratory group of faculty and administrators was convened to determine the level of awareness at the school about the avian flu threat, the education needed to assess the threat presented to the school, and the appropriate response of the school to the threat. This exploratory group with some adjustments became a steering group, formed to guide the development of the FluPrep� program as a means by which to educate the community about the science and control of infectious disease, establish local, even personal responsibility for protection of the school community, develop community leadership for community protection, train effective non-professional responders to identify and respond effectively to potential incursions of disease, even prevent the introduction of potential sources into the community.

Improving organizational productivity

For the largest pet-food maker in the world, developed a shadow operational structure alongside the existing structure and led the corporate team�s learning effort to research and understand its needs to integrate, downsize, refocus its marketing, reposition its brand and upgrade substantially its ability to develop and use a flexible production system with completely revamped distribution channels.� The shadow structure eventually became the new way of doing business. This effort resulted in the downsizing of the company from 14 production plants nationwide to eight, with new distribution theories and mechanisms.� The engagement positioned the company for significant shareholder value growth and the eventual profitable acquisition of the company.

Developing Change Strategy

For the largest food and beverage company in the world, developed a strategy for upgrading the plant based on educating the workforce in advance of the necessities for competing in the global market. The resulting goodwill and understanding of the workforce became the basis for a new and startling union contract that gave the necessary latitude to develop a nimble and capable workforce.

Increasing Site Visibility

For a leading provider of enterprise application products and services, developed a multi-platform internet advertising campaign that led to 100% increase in site traffic and new product sales.