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AIT Farsight Representative Clients

 

Private Sector

  • 3M
  • Allied Domec
  • American Hospital Association
  • American Medical Systems
  • ARCO - "When there is potential for controversy, AIT FarSight Group's process takes the heat out of the room and focuses attention on the data. You're able to talk about disagreement without polarizing an audience. It provides a powerful way to quickly focus a group to prioritize issues leading to action steps. It gives you hard numbers for soft issues." Karen Otazo - Manager, Human Resources Department, ARCO
  • Arthur Anderson & Co. Business Systems Consulting - "Our business strategy was enriched, embellished, and expanded after using FarSight. (The facilitation of the Strategic Process helped us...) envision our strategy and move from pilot test to rapid growth." "I have used the tools with clients to produce dramatic, positive results.  The concepts and technology are the most important breakthrough in Management I have witnessed in my thirty years of consulting." Robert M. Elmore - Managing Partner and Director, Arthur Andersen & Co. Business Systems Consulting
  • AT&T
  • Delphi Electronics Group - "In today's highly competitive global economy, fundamental change is a crucial element for defining the roadmap for innovation and creativity across all of the enterprise aspects of our businesses.  Working with the AIT FarSight process for innovative and creative thinking has allowed us to go back to the fundamentals of nature and apply a concept in transactional areas, like organization process definition and designs for tomorrow.  This has enabled us to bring together breakthrough teams that were once in conflict to those that are now selecting and executing strategic ideas with a focus on the business rather than their respective functional areas.  These successes have now allowed for the break through of paradigms in other areas as we explore the re-invention of our products for the futuristic markets of tomorrow." Donald L. Deptowicz Delphi Electronics Group General Director, Customer Satisfaction
  • Groupo Azteca
  • Bank Branch and Trust Company - "The FarSight Group is clearly one of the most innovative thinking organizations of our time. They have had a tremendous impact on the success of our business. They broaden your perspective and make you think."  John Allison, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Branch Bank & Trust
  • Coca-Cola
  • Credit Union National Association
  • CUNA Mutual Insurance Company - "FarSight Group's seminars were a catalyst and pointed us to a whole new strategy and business direction... launching a new distribution system, new products and services, and new integrated marketing activities. Following FarSight Group workshops, CUNA grew from $1 billion in sales to $5.4 billion."  Richard Heins, CEO of CUNA Mutual Insurance Company
  • Dow Chemical
  • Dow Corning (U.S., Europe and Asia)
  • Ford Motor Company
  • General Mills (Manufacturing)
  • General Motors
  • Gilbane Building Corporation
  • Herman Miller, Inc. - "It allows a team to use its creativity to open up the box of future possibilities, it explores and brings clarity to the rich diversity of ideas present in each of us, and allows a group to quickly come together around the prioritization of initiatives.  I would highly recommend FarSight Group's process to any group/organization wrestling with the realities of constant discontinuous change and seeking more effective ways of organizing itself in response to change." Craig Schrotenboer, Vice-President, Herman Miller, Inc.
  • Hewlett Packard (Change Management)
  • Hyatt Hotels (Marketing Strategies)
  • Intermedics Orthopedics, Inc. - "Our growth has been astonishing. AIT FarSight Group has not only helped us create and prioritize our strategies and tactics for growth and change, but more importantly we can share information in a non-threatening way that builds real trust and support. This is a very natural process that we use on a continuing basis."  Jerry Marlar - President, Intermedics Orthopedics, Inc.
  • Johnson Diversey - "Aim has helped our organization better understand the creative thinking and decision-making processes we need to follow to design breakthrough solutions for our customer's needs. It is robust without being too rigid, adding to the creativity and wisdom found in our company. We have already applied the requirement to thoroughly understand our customers, to identify needs that we are confident we can solve." Greg Clark, Vice President, Innovation and Product Portfolio. Johnson Wax, JohnsonDiversy
  • Johnson Wax Professional
  • Liberty Life Insurance Company
  • Midamerica Energy Corporation
  • Ministry of Defense (UK)
  • Mitsui Corporation
  • Moore Business Forms
  • Novell
  • Owens Corning
  • PEDVSA (Venezuela National Oil Company)
  • PEMEX (Mexico National Oil Company - "In a large complex company as Pemex with a new executive team formed for President's Fox administration, it would have been virtually impossible to reach agreements so fast and in such important matters as the future of the State owned monopoly without the help, methodology and technology of Farsight Group" Othón Canales. Executive VP Competitiveness and Innovation. Petróleos Mexicanos.
  • Proctor & Gamble
  • Sabre
  • Science Applications International Corporation - "I have participated in over twenty years of these strategic sessions at Exxon and other major companies. The FarSight Group process surpasses these by at least an order of magnitude." Michael E. Spaeth, Corporate Vice President, Science Applications International Corporation
  • Spineteck
  • SulzerMedia Corporation
  • Takanaka Construction
  • Topan Moore Corporation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Public Sector

  • Center for Disease Control
  • City of Tempe Arizona - "We have been talking about "re-inventing" government for 6-8 years, this is a process that makes re-invention possible...we built trust, real teamwork, a shared vision and developed creative strategies to go forward." "The AIT FarSight Group Creative Strategic Thinking Experience was a truly empowering and liberating experience for me personally and for our executive team.    All who participated came away feeling renewed and much better prepared to accept and lead change and to try new ways to build partnerships with those with whom we work and the people we serve." Terry Zerkle  - City Manager, City of Tempe - Arizona
  • Defense Evaluation & Research Agency (UK)
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • International Monetary Fund
  • Iowa Public Service Company - "You know how highly we value FarSight techniques. The uses we have found have literally saved our company millions of dollars.  That sounds lie a lot of baloney, except the results are there. More importantly than the monetary savings is that you have taught our people to think, to be creative, to be innovative.  As you know, we pride ourselves on running the most forward thinking, the most responsive utility in the country - two steps ahead of the rest of the industry.  Learning again to think is vital to our leadership." Frank W. Griffith, President, Iowa Public Service Company
  • Los Angeles Police Department
  • NASA
  • Organization of American States
  • Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWARS)
  • The Council for Excellence in Government - "Everyone on the Council team loved your workshops...they were recharged by both your words and your presence. It is support like yours that is helping transform and renew our nation's governmental structures."  Ron Redmon, The Council for Excellence in Government
  • United States Office of Personnel Management
  • United States Department of Commerce
  • United States Department of Energy
  • United States Department of Agriculture
  • United States General Services Administration
  • United States Patent & Trademark Office - Bradford Huther, Associate Commissioner of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, recently wrote, "FarSight Group's ability to create synergy among a diverse group of union and management officials during both our strategic and tactical sessions was very impressive."  He concluded, "The process really works!"
  • United States Senior Executive Service
  • United States Federal Reserve

Creative Strategic Planning in Latin America Bilingual FarSight Team

  • Organization of American States
  • PEMEX (Mexico National Oil Company)
  • SAT (Mexican Internal Revenue Agency)
  • Federal Electric Commission (Mexico)
  • PDVSA (Venezuela National Petroleum Company)
  • Coca-Cola - Before using AIT FarSight Group, our strategic and tactical meetings were chaotic. They were difficult to facilitate and everyone's opinions were not heard. The result was often that the few who spoke most imposed their ideas on the group, making decisions which were unsuitable to the mission of the business.  With FarSight Group, we were successful in reaching a decision harmoniously, hearing everyone's position, and greatly increasing the feeling of participation and overall success." Carlos Medina Turon - Director Coca Cola Systems
  • Proctor & Gamble
  • Allied Domec
  • Groupo Azteca
  • Groupo Envasa
  • Moore Corporation

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