Blue Aster is a strategic advisory firm that helps companies bridge the gap between an idea and its implementation. In any given year, consultants, boards, and executive teams generate numerous great ideas. These might involve a new product, a new operating model, participation in a new program, and more. When those ideas and the reality of implementation and testing collide, new data floods in and can overwhelm the people and the process. Blue Aster takes an entrepreneurial approach to refining critical assumptions and charting new paths.
Blue Aster provides discovery, building, and implementing support, taking ideas all the way from blank paper to results, or any range of plans in between. Sometimes work starts with an acknowledged but amorphous need to grow differently or sometimes it starts with a predefined project or audacious impact goal.
Example engagements (see the FAQ for examples of my specific work):
Strategic Planning
Creation of a new strategic plan and assistance implementing the first stages of the plan.
New Fund Design
Design and implementation of a new fund, with a focus on financial modeling and efficient management of the fund’s operations.
Funder and Intermediary Support
Design and initial implementation support to funders and intermediaries developing new investment programs or strategies.
Lending Process Design
Redesign and implementation of an organization’s lending process or products to achieve greater scale and efficiency. This includes securing team-wide buy-in and adoption of the new process or product.
Program Analysis
Analysis of the financial, strategic and organizational capacity implications of new lending or credit enhancement programs offered by public and private funders.