Current Project Examples

As you will read, TSI works on a variety of projects ranging in size and industry. Common through all of these is the need we satisfy for our clients, to realize improved business performance. Please note that these descriptions are intentionally general in nature, to protect the confidentiality we maintain with our clients.

Rapidly Growing Game Distributor - Indianapolis, IN

TSI is currently working with this organization to assess the utility of its key information systems and business processes in two days. TSI delivered the assessment and is providing coaching to the existing management team.

Large Retail Operator and Education Content Provider - Chicago, IL

TSI is currently working with this organization to integrate a recently-acquired organization from an operational and organizational perspective. TSI is also helping to define sales and account management documentation to improve handoffs between Sales and Account Management.

Mid-Sized Automobile Parts Manufacturer - Michigan, Indiana, Florida, Mexico

TSI worked with this organization as part of the operational and technology due diligence team. After the transaction was completed, TSI acted as the Program Manager to manage the technology and part of the operational transition efforts. This effort including moving and/or changing dozens of technology service providers and vendors.

Mid-sized Research Institution -Chicago, IL

TSI is currently working with this organization to develop a Technology Roadmap and Strategic Plan. This plan will align with the overall Strategic Plan and provide an assessment of current technology process, people and architecture capabilities and define a going forward actionable plan.

Rapidly growing Mid-sized Travel Services - Chicago, IL

TSI helped this organization define its business and technical requirements and evaluate several leading SFA/CRM vendors including several products from Oracle and Salesforce.com. TSI served as the neutral facilitator and manager of the process to carefully evaluate leading options relative to the prioritized requirements. TSI also advised this client on critical contractual issues.

Midwest-based Commercial Lighting Designer and Manufacturer’s Representative -Chicago, IL

TSI helped this organization define its key business processes and establish a going forward plan for growth. This plan included key changes in its organization structure, processes and use of technology. TSI helped this organization with the initial process improvement around its sales, account management and financial processes. TSI also helped this client explore some initial technology options including Salesforce.com, NetSuite and several Microsoft packages

Large Privately-held Higher Education Content and Service Provider - Chicago, IL

TSI is currently assisting this growing organization to implement Information Technology Governance (i.e., defining the structure, processes, policies and domains) for this organization to move from a highly-decentralized to a more collaborative environment.

Large Midwestern University - Urbana, IL

TSI is leading an effort for this university to improve its approach toward advancement and development including its strategy, process and technology capabilities. This is becoming an ever increasing issue as state funding continues to be reduced.

TSI is currently in the fact-finding and analysis stages to define improved processes, business and IT requirements and selecting improved technology to enable a significant fund-raising campaign.

Leading Growth Fund Management Company - Denver, CO

TSI modified its popular Process Training Workshop for this growing and forward-thinking organization and trained over 120 of its business analysts and project managers to define, analyze and improve their business processes.

Non-Profit Educational Organization - Chicago, IL

TSI is leading a project to assess and improve this organization's core student registration and financial processes. A software vendor evaluation will follow this phase and result in the selection of an improved enterprise software system.

Growing Travel Services and Media Company - Schaumburg, IL

TSI created an IT and Business Strategy that positions this organization for continued high growth. TSI then performed a process improvement and software vendor evaluation to develop solutions that enable more efficient and scalable growth capabilities.

Large Hospital Consortium - Oak Brook , IL

TSI is in the process of developing an IT Strategic Plan to determine how to leverage and improve a highly disparate centralized/decentralized organization that has acquired 8 hospitals in the last 10 years. This project is part IT assessment and part "Roadmap Development" to align IT as an enabling organization to help the overall enterprise achieve its strategic goals.

International Food Manufacturer and Distributor - Minneapolis, MN

TSI is performing an audit of a key area within Information Technology to make this high-performing group function even better, faster and with greater quality.

Large State University Chicago, IL

TSI performed an audit of the University's ERP implementation and presented key recommendations in the areas of Project Management, Process Management and overall team structure and project approach.

Large Trade Association - Schaumburg, IL

TSI was invited to be the keynote speaker on topics of performance management, process improvement and productivity.

High-Fashion Distributor and Retailer - Edison, NJ

TSI is leading a strategic planning, process improvement and technology assessment project to help this private company improve its ability to grow in a more sustainable and profitable manner. Working closely with the senior management team and another consulting firm, TSI has identified numerous opportunities for improvement and risk areas that require immediate resolution.

Industrial Manufacturer - Chicago, IL

TSI is facilitating a rapid process improvement process to help this public company improve its New Product Development (NPD) process as well as its Sales Forecasting and CRM processes.

UAE University - Dubai and Al Ain, UAE

UAE- TSI led the UAE’s College of Business and Economics (CBE) Strategic Planning (SP) Process to define, for the CBE and its Departments, a Vision, Mission and Values that leverages the current dynamic market conditions and direction of the University as the basis of its development. In one week we created the College and Department’s Vision, Mission and Key Goals while aligning the Vision and Mission at the CBE and Department levels.

Privately-held Retail Store Operator - Oak Brook , IL

TSI was chosen to assist in defining and implementing this organization's CHANGE MANAGEMENT approach since this company, like most others, has significantly more projects than it has resources. TSI is working closely with PMO, HR and Store Operations to define the approach in a collaborative fashion.

Power Transmission Company - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

TSI was selected from over a half-dozen consulting firms to lead the process development effort to build efficient processes throughout the organization.

Large Public University - Illinois

TSI assisted in the strategic planning and critical issue resolution in this University's College of Business. The result of this effort was the collaborative development of an action plan with specific milestones and targeted results.

Rapidly-growing Search Engine Marketing Company - San Francisco, CA

TSI is assisting in the development of efficient processes and a scalable organization structure and technology architecture for this rapidly growing company.

Large Healthcare Organization - Oakland, CA

Assisting in deployment of new financial policies and processes in the large, complex distributed environment.

Distributor of Durable Goods Chicago, IL

Assisting in the overall planning and coordination of their corporate and distribution center (DC) relocation including the warehouse design. Prior to this, TSI analyzed their DC configuration and use of 3 PL’s and recommended consolidating and in sourcing some of these functions. This resulted in net savings in excess of $1 million annually.

Healthcare Plan - New England Area

Developing improved enrollment procedures, job aids and training guides to make productivity gains without changing technology (as the timeline does not permit technology changes now).

Educational Publisher - Columbus, OH

TSI performed a rapid two-day assessment of its DC and order management functions and recommended numerous operational, organizational and technology changes to senior management.

Insurance Company - Chicago, IL

Developing their Transformation and Change Management Methodologies. These will be used for all significant internal projects as this organization strives to reinvent many of its key business processes. TSI is leveraging their methodology as the framework from which to customize and train internal consultants.

Healthcare Association

Chicago, IL

TSI is performing a workflow analysis to improve some of the key business and IT processes. This involves defining how their internal customers are seeking to gain more value from this group, yet focusing on the near-term changes that can be deployed within the next 90-120 days.

Professional Services Firm - Chicago, IL

Assisting in software vendor evaluation and contract negotiation. This will result in improved processes, based on the up front process work we completed earlier.

Consumer Packaging/Branding Company - Chicago, IL

Assisting in defining key functional and technical requirements on a key IT initiative.

Professional Services Firm - Chicago, IL

Assisting in developing a process improvement approach that they can use internally and with their clients. TSI is leveraging their methodology as the framework from which to customize and train internal consultants.