Veteran Consultants Launch Breakthrough Growth and Innovation Strategy Firm

New consultancy helps companies re-ignite the growth, innovation, and agility that lead to long-term, sustainable success.

(PRWEB) November 12, 2004 -- Spark Partners is pleased to announce the launch of their new firm, which is dedicated to helping organizations rediscover growth, innovation, and agility -- helping them find the Fountain of Youth that keeps their business vibrant, exciting and growing profitably. The firm was founded by Adam Hartung, Charles Searight, and Alan Weyl, each of whom has over 25 years of experience both as C-level operating executives and as senior executives with major consulting firms such as Accenture, the Boston Consulting Group, and CSC. They bring to their clients a unique combination of business strategy, process, and information technology expertise.

We have banded together to help clients solve the very frustrating problem of re-igniting growth after years of cost cutting, reengineering, six sigma, and the like," said Alan Weyl. We believe that sustained high growth is far more important to corporate longevity than optimization -- which frequently leads to corporate asphyxiation and death."

One third of the companies in the Fortune 500 failed to survive the last 10 years. Two thirds failed to survive the last 30 years. A Corporate Executive Board study found that nearly all of the nations largest companies have experienced a stall in growth followed by an extended period of stagnation, that in most cases resulted in a loss of over half of a companys market value.

We help clients understand why they have lost the innovative spark and the agility they once had and how to regain them. But that is not nearly enough. We help companies connect innovation and agility with profitable growth and develop the ability to sustain profitable growth over the long term," said Charles Searight.

The fundamental principles underpinning the Spark Partners approach to helping companies avoid stalls and sustain growth are the subject of a book co-authored by Adam Hartung entitled The Phoenix Principle, to be published in early 2005. Our research showed us that companies stall because they become locked-in to what worked in the past," said Mr. Hartung. We have developed an approach to helping companies break through the status quo and unlock growth." Well known business author Tom Peters, in the foreword to The Phoenix Principle, calls this approach a tremendous upgrade in how we think about business decision making that is timely for what ails leadership."

About Spark Partners
Spark Partners is a consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations rediscover growth, innovation, and agility -- helping them find the Fountain of Youth that keeps the business vibrant, exciting and growing profitably. Spark Partners is comprised exclusively of senior executive consultants who have experienced all of the business cycles, management fads, and company successes and failures of the last 25 years. They have office locations in Boston, Chicago, and New York and can be reached at http://www.sparkpartners.com/.

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