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MISSION
• Provide professional services of highest quality
aimed at facilitating and improving change, growth and transformation worldwide
• Act as reliable, trustworthy and confidential partner to organizations
involved in creating economic values • Be instrumental in achieving results
and objectives through multiple roles: strategist, analyst, planner, innovator,
catalyst, change agent, manager, coordinator, trainer, consultant and
advisor
2
EXPERIENCE
• Consulting work in more than 30 countries since
1986 for various UN agencies and multilateral development banks, USAID and other
bilateral international development organizations as well as consulting and
corporations • Management development and university/college teaching in areas
of international business, policy-strategy, marketing and management in USA,
Puerto Rico and Switzerland, as well as countries in Latin America, Caribbean,
Africa, Middle East and Asia • Engineering and managerial positions with
industrial companies in the USA, Canada, UK and Switzerland
3 KEY
AREAS
Strategy
• Qualitative-logical
analysis of complex systems, situations, networks, organizational relationships
(through LOGOS MATRIX Methodology • Identification and creation of strategic
alternatives • Developing action plans to achieve stated objectives •
Linkages with systems stakeholders to achieve synergistic effect and development
of new alliances
International Business
Development
• Identification and analysis of export/import) and
foreign direct investment opportunities • Formulation of concepts and
projects, comprehensive feasibility studies • Venture negotiations and
organizations • Interim management of operations
Private
Enterprise Development
• Analysis and development of
SME policies • Strategic assessment of SME sector • Formulation of
appropriate development alternatives • Training of entrepreneurs and
entrepreneurship • Enterprise
restructuring/re-engineering
Marketing
• Planning and implementation of research/survey
activities • Strategy planning and development • New product development •
Identification of new markets • Analysis of competition and channels •
Preparation of business/marketing plans
Organizational/institutional
development and capacity building
• Diagnostic assessments of
operational effectiveness • Development of new organizational concepts •
Planning for organizational change • Training • Monitoring and evaluation of
organizational change
Management
• Interim
management/coordination functions for projects, business ventures and
institutions
Project management
• Identification,
design, negotiations, planning, and management of projects • Design and
implementation of management information systems • Monitoring of
progress
• Evaluation of programs, projects and complex
systems
Data mining
• Development of search
strategies and execution of worldwide searches on the Internet • Mobilizing
efficiently resources and information, knowledge management
functions
4
SECTORS
Multi-sector
experiences
• International development assistance, business
services, industry , (eco-) tourism, environment/ecology, handicrafts,
engineering, academic and management development
institutions
5 WORK
METHODOLOGY
• Creative and dynamic application of
participatory-interdisciplinary approaches, teamwork, networking and linkages
towards achieving synergies
• Analytical as well as strategic focus, with
strong market orientation, guided by principles of feasibility and
sustainability
6
LANGUAGES
• Written and oral fluency in English, Spanish,
French and German
7 EDUCATION (of
Founder, President & Principal Consultant: Dr. Pierre
Hostettler)
• PhD in International Business, Management and
Economics from Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX
• MBA in Marketing from
Seattle University, Seattle, WA
• BS in Mechanical and
Industrial Engineering from the Biel School of Engineering (Fach-Hochschule),
Switzerland
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