Rowland Chen, LLC

Roles I play

Consultant

Solve the toughest business problems using innovative tools and components as would any decent engineer
Collect information, analyze data, define the real problem, develop a solution, and execute
Have solved problems ranging from cruise missiles crashing to orchestrating business turnarounds
Partner with CEOs to increase the valuations of their firms

Advisor

Provide advice drawn from 40 years’ experience tackling the hardest strategic, operational and financial problems
Guide you and your leadership team on how to navigate strategic issues that block competitive advantage, organizational issues that slow performance improvement, and financial issues that constrain growth
Wide range of industries including technology, healthcare, and financial services.

Mentor

Coach leaders as their businesses progress from early stages through maturity and possible exit
Broad industry experience gained through leading and executing over 175 science, engineering, and business consulting projects spanning four decades
Thought partner and sounding board to people at all levels of an organizations

Specializations

Early-Stage Success

Take firms from concept to monetization and everything in between
Multiple industries including high tech, financial services, and healthcare
Industry disruption strategy formulation

Business Combinations

Full-cycle of mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, shared services, and other combinations
Lightweight acquisition integration method to quickly stabilize combined operations

Transformation

Entire enterprise, single business unit, specific functions
Major change program management
Competitive strategy, operations, organization, people, technology

Revenue Growth

Growth strategy formulation
Product and category management
Go-to-market execution
Marketing & sales process optimization
SaaS, high tech hardware, consumer products, financial services, healthcare

Education

Business administration, mathematics, new ventures, entrepreneurship, software applications
Corporate, graduate school, undergraduate, secondary education
Talks, lunch-and-learns, workshops, seminars, mini-courses, semester-long courses
Custom courseware development-as-a-service

Framework Foundry

Custom design of frameworks and methodologies specific to your situation
Apply to strategy formulation, operations improvement, problem solving, stakeholder alignment, pitches
Training of your people in framework visualization and execution
Teach-to-fish