Presentation and Workshop
Barriers to Disruption:
New Growth Engines
As industry forces accelerate and elevate, food companies must drive 10 years of progress in as little as 6 months.
To remain in the game and avoid disruption, they cannot be limited by industry boundaries. How should CEOs and Boards prepare for an unknown future? What will investor-grade strategies look like post-COVID?
Learnings from award-winning business thinkers Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur are put to use in this session:
- What growth looks like now: Redefining value
- Long-held innovation myths and ineffective practices
- Your business model trajectory: growing or declining?
- The search for new markets, new arenas
- The ambidextrous organization for the 21st century
Presentation and Workshop
Never Going Back: The End of the Food Industry as We Knew It
Technology, channel economics, new sources of capital, and shifting profit pools are responding to a) the way consumers live, work and play; and b) the way businesses do business.
Many long-standing industry practices will never return, and new forces will not wait for food companies to catch up.
This session equips executives with new insights that bust old assumptions and is critical input to help them chart their organizations' path for the post-COVID world:
- From products era to services era
- New markets at the nexus of food, beauty and health
- Ecosystems and interdependencies
- Access to products over ownership of products
- The leadership challenge: Transforming insights to action
What We Know For Sure
The operating environment is accelerating faster than expected. Leaders face unmatched challenges to read ambiguous market signals to find clues about the future while not letting the present fall through the cracks.
Survival means being world class at doing two things at once:
- Improving results Today
- Exploring and developing new models for Tomorrow
Both critical "engines" must now co-exist, side-by-side, on equal footing in the organization.
Our services are built entirely around helping food and beverage companies in all major segments do just that.
Our People
Debra Bachar, Founder and President
Debra's lifelong industry career includes executive roles with domestic and global food manufacturers. Consulting since 2000 at the CEO and board levels, she is a renown industry foresight specialist, facilitating development of investment-grade growth strategies for blue chip and upper middle market food and beverage companies. Public speaker, industry commentary, influencer and white paper publisher, Debra is former Chair of Executive Programs and Top to Top Conference for the Women's Foodservice Forum. She is trained and certified in Strategyzer's Thinkers 40 award-winning business model methodologies.
Scott Norman, Finance and Business Manager
An exceptional management career spanning over 28 years, Scott's corporate history lists prominent public and private consumer packaged goods companies. Joining Blueberry in 2008, his track record of generating revenue growth enables clients to successfully develop sales management techniques that optimize customer relationships and translate complex growth objectives into successful field implementation. Scott also provides financial and business oversight for Blueberry.
Bill Pierrakeas, Senior Client Advisor
Bill is specialized in leadership development, change management, strategy definition and training. He applies extensive expertise working with diverse Fortune 1000 firms' leadership and integration teams during acquisitions, divestitures and other changes in ownership. Published author of articles and studies throughout his industry career, Bill is a Certified Lean Expert, Certified Lean Analyst, and board member for the Association for Manufacturing Excellence.
Subject Matter Experts
Blueberry maintains a strong network of contracted service professionals including doctorate-level executive coaching, search, human resources, legal and other practitioners as requested to advance client objectives.
OUR VALUE PROMISE
- In-the-moment knowledge and ahead-of-the-moment implications of food industry developments.
- Fresh thinking perspectives and impeccable judgment.
- Custom, tailored recommendations; nothing off the shelf.
- Objective, unbiased and candid, 100% of the time.
- A genuine spirit of partnership with our clients.
