How can we help you?
To discuss how our experts can help your organization please
Partner Biography
Noel Burke
Industry Experts
Government and Education
KOMAND Consulting Inc.Government and Education
Noel combines a rich background in teaching, management, and leadership. From 2002 through 2007, he served at the Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport, as Assistant Deputy Minister for the English-Speaking Community.
Previously, he was Assistant Director General (Assistant Superintendent) and Educational Services Director for the New Frontiers School Board. He has held numerous teaching positions, including Resident Adjunct Professor for the Faculty of Graduate Studies in Education at McGill University, and Sessional Lecturer for the Department of Education, Faculty of Arts and Science, at Concordia University and is currently lecturing in the Graduate Certificate of Educational Leadership at McGill. He was previously the Director of a Continuing Education Centre, Consultant in Continuing Education and Administration, and Curriculum Developer for the Faculty of Education, Distance Education Department, at McGill University.
His many accomplishments in education include leadership in the implementation of Quebec’s current school reform and significant developments in Vocational Education. He is also responsible for the establishment of the Leading English Education Research Network (LEARN) as well as founder of the Community Learning Centres (CLC) network. He has most recently established the Quebec English-speaking Research Network (QUESCREN) at Concordia. Noel is a respected keynote speaker and workshop facilitator on leadership, change management, and lifelong learning who has accompanied many educators and institutions on their journey to success.
Noel holds an MEd (in Administration and Policy Studies) from McGill University and is a practicing Personal and Professional Coach, certified by the International Coaching Federation (IFC).
Nasos Makriyiannis
Nasos Makriyiannis
Managing Partner
Strategy and Transformation
Alex Whitmore
Alex Whitmore
Partner
Statistics and Data Analytics
David Cocklin
David Cocklin
Industry Experts
Marine Transportation and Logistics
As a statistically driven strategic planning firm, we’ve done our research on why there is such a high failure rate with strategic implementations. It turns out that the sophistication level of the strategy management process is a keydriver – the more sophisticated the strategy management process, the better the results.
95%
Employees that don’t understand the organization’s strategy
80 - 90%
Failure rate of strategy implementation
1
2
3
4
1
Before all else, your organization needs to have a clearly articulated strategy.
To help you get there, KOMAND provides the following services:
- – Executive offsite facilitation and visioning
- – Opportunity Scanning and Trends analysis
- – Competitive benchmarking
- – Market segment analysis
- – Capabilities FinderTM
2
With a clear direction on where and how your company will compete in the marketplace, the strategic initiatives that will lead to success need to be developed, budgeted for and prioritized.
KOMAND can help you by providing services in:
- – Corporate strategy
- – Business unit strategy
- – Business case analysis
- – Balanced scorecard design
- – Roadmap and implementation planning
3
Each strategic initiative previously identified has to be operationalized at the functional division level.
The key to success is an operational plan for each functional area of your organization.
KOMAND assists you with the following services:
- – Functional strategy development
- – Change management interventions
- – Organizational design
- – Activity based costing and management
- – Operational and customer analytics
- – Process improvement
- – Financial and Operational modeling
4
With technology and production cycles continuously shortening, every organization needs to be nimble and ready to change their course rapidly.
KOMAND helps you stay on track by providing the following adaptive strategy services:
- – Advanced analytics
- – Customer profitability analysis
- – Strategic causality and correlation analysis