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“XenoPort was experiencing some delays and excessive costs in delivering materials to clinical trial sites at a time of rapid company growth. Sides & Associates worked effectively with a senior cross-functional team, helping us sort through many strong and sometimes conflicting views to streamline critical path activities, establish clear accountabilities, and identify “quick wins” that resulted in an immediate impact on reduced costs and shorter timelines. S&A’s planning, timeliness and follow-through were all outstanding. They did a great job for us and I look forward to working with them again.”
-Dave Sevello, Senior Vice President of Development, XenoPort
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 S&A Overview
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Mission
Sides & Associates, Inc. (S&A) was founded in 2001 to help high-potential businesses drive and manage growth. To this end, our consultants partner with clients to identify the right opportunities, plan and execute their next stage of growth, and manage the consequences of that growth on their organizations. Bringing deep experience in successfully driving and navigating growth, our senior people lead and execute all of the work which allows client leaders to set direction and effectively manage improvements while focusing their attention and internal resources on core business operations.
Impact
We're proud to have received "exceeds expectations" ratings from 100%
of our clients. We have enabled these clients to:
- Meet growth objectives and create the infrastructure for
rapid growth
- Fully understand and effectively tackle complex management problems
- Create positive transformations from transitional periods
such as integrations of acquired companies, launches of new divisions, or changes in key leadership positions
- Drive organizational changes while effectively managing
the current business
- Powerfully position an integrated offering and establish
the infrastructure to deliver
- Fill temporary gaps in leadership, project management and
organizational development positions
- Build skills in areas critical to long-term organizational
excellence
- Secure funding and reduce investor risk
Values
- Our client’s success: At every interaction, it’s about you, not us. We enjoy immersing ourselves in our client’s worlds and are committed to doing what’s right for you and your business. We focus our energy on helping you succeed – whether that requires achieving certain results, saving money or time, increasing reliability, stretching yourself across more responsibilities, or expanding your organizations’ capabilities. Whatever the goal, we make it happen by adapting and finding the way of collaborating with you and you organization that works.
- Personal growth: S&A consultants are smart, experienced and skilled but we also believe the quest to learn and improve never ends. We don’t bring all of the answers; we learn from our clients every day. We do what we do because we enjoy challenge, variety, people, and the process of making the changes that achieve results for our clients. We view personal and professional development as inseparable. We believe in balance: that having time and space to think, study, and enjoy rich life experiences enables us to grow, develop, and bring the right energy to our work.
- Social responsibility: We’re passionate about our
work and our commitment to improving our world along the way is longstanding. Our founder has led a major corporate environmental initiative and has founded ten ongoing outreach projects. We’ve made time for project work with the Sierra Club and to annually teach entrepreneurship to international MBA students. Instead of spending on client gifts and entertainment, we donate to chosen causes and spread the word about them
via our holiday letter. As
with personal growth, we view these activities as integral
to our work. See giving back for a list of organizations we support.
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