Daniel J. Crean speaks the language of technology and markets. An experienced project manager and business builder, Crean can contribute to organizations in developing and implementing their business strategies. His expertise in operations management and product development is valuable to any manager under the gun to produce. Crean has degrees in engineering and business.
Services
Industrial marketing – strategic and tactical
Technology consulting – impact of new technologies on markets
Commercialization of technology evaluation
Product management – integration of product design, market strategy, production plan
Business plan development
Process design - process systems, business systems
Product development - integration of customer concerns and wants, manufacturability, and production economics
Selected Projects
Transuranic Waste management plan
Crean supervised development of conceptual plan for removing waste containers from a burial area to an above-ground storage facility for Los Alamos National Laboratory. This plan included evaluation of equipment, personnel needs and preparation of schedule as well as risk assessment for safety, environmental, financial, and programmatic factors.
Tire Recycling
Grass-roots plant for processing used tires into commercially saleable materials.
As assistant project manager, Crean dealt with many parties to successfully push the project forward. He worked with project financiers, civil engineers, the transportation authority, the county planning department, and the state environmental agency to complete a provisional permit and a construction and operating plan. Crean also led the evaluation of technologies, selection of technology vendors, and equipment planning for this project. This project included planning for labor and materials traffic as well as a provisional market survey for the plant products.
Headache machine
Crean led the development of a home health care device for people who suffer from severe headaches. He supervised all aspects of the product and business development. This included market surverys, market channel design, product design for manufacturability, creation of detailed business plan and marketing plan.
Challenges included communication of the product philosophy to health care community and application to the FDA regulatory process
Internet strategies
Crean developed Internet strategies for several small and medium-sized businesses. This included the visual and functional design of websites, search engine placement, and competitive analysis. Development of websites incorporated business strategy, target customer profiles and demographics, and technical requirements.
Arsenic-containing waste
Crean led the planning and process design for management and treatment of highly toxic liquid waste. The conceptual design included process design encompassing scientific data, customer preferences, industry standards, and legal requirements. Crean supervised the evaluation of impact of processing equipment on facility, estimate of construction cost and schedule, and development of control and operating philosophies. The design included provisions for safety, durability, and minimizing human contact.
Strategic marketing/Technology evaluation – telecommunications
For a start-up telecommunications firm, Crean developed a market survey and strategy.
The study included the impact of evolving technology and deregulation in the communications field, analysis of industry structure and financing, and probable consolidation among participants, given capital requirements and market conditions. The analysis took into account cable television, entertainment, telephone companies, computer and other hardware manufacturing firms and their motivations for reacting with and/or acquiring the start-up in response to offensive and defensive threats. Crean identified strategies for deal formation and a suggested a framework for valuing the company as an option for an acquirer.
Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program
As process engineer, Crean was responsible for mass and energy balances,
extremely hazardous materials.
Four types of furnaces, each with a fired afterburner, and a wet and dry pollution abatement system.
Design of scrubbing system,
Radian
Nuclear Fuel Services
Process design engineering for a scrap metal recovery facility.
Comprehensive design involved
Extraction, dissolution, evaporation, precipitation, and filtering.
Campaign scheduling
Batch limits
Material flows, accountabilioyty, safety.
Equipment sizing and specifications
Trace Erase Board
Crean
Strategic Cost Management
design and implementation of cost management practices and techniques to support the strategic position and goals of a firm. Activity-based management, business process redesign, total quality management, and value chain analysis.
Strategic Performance Management
You'll employ a systems approach to illustrate the linkages between an organization's strategy and performance measurement. This course uses cases and computer simulations to depict the design and operation of balanced performance-measurement systems. Among the topics are casual loop analysis, process redesign, and balanced scorecard.
Sales Plan
Website - free directories, search engines
Direct Letters
Direct e-mail - look into purchase of list
Cold call phone calls - 5 per week
Teaching UT extension casual classes
ACC
Animus Opibusque Parati | Ready for Anything
Why do you need to think about Process Design?
competitive advantage in an environment requiring flexible responses to changing business conditions and opportunities in a global market. Successful management of operations requires a combination of a cross-functional approach and emerging information technology to improve the quality of products, processes, and delivery systems to meet customers' needs
Process design means managing the entire value-added chain for firms delivering a service or manufacturing a product. For manufacturing firms, the value-added chain begins with product design and order entry, through manufacturing, supply chain management, distribution, customer service, and finally remanufacturing or recycling. For service firms, this value-added chain begins with service process design or redesign and continues through customer-driven service delivery, supplier management, customer encounter, service delivery environment, and customer feedback.
Innovative technology delivers clear competitive advantage.
But how do you harness this power?
Process Development
Product & Service Development
Technology Development
Technology-Based Consulting
Technology-Based Venturing
Manufacturing, process and service industries achieve competitive advantage through world class operations. These companies are facing an overwhelming need to re-configure their operations and re-think their core business processes.
The internet has created completely new ways of conducting business, making traditional approaches obsolete
The megatrend of globalization of business operations adds a new level of competition
Throughout the world, industries are being deregulated, state owned businesses privatized, and free trade zones established
Creation of shareholder value is becoming the dominant measure of success
Companies are responding with an unprecedented array of mergers and acquisitions, unbundling of businesses, large scale restructuring, and reconfiguring of supply chains and associated business processes.
Our Operations Management consultants can help resolve the issues you face. We can guide management toward winning decisions and tangible, lasting results. Whether your concerns relate to customer service, distribution networks, manufacturing operations, purchasing effectiveness, the entire supply chain, outsourcing, or the many opportunities eBusiness offers for your supply chain, we can help.
Benchmark database
Best practice library
E-enabled supply chains
Network optimization
Business process re-engineering
Post merger integration
JIT manufacturing
TQM and six sigma programs
We help you resolve the issues you face...
Poor customer service?Costs not competitive?
No e-business applications?
No focus on core competencies?
High working capital?
Too many suppliers?
No supplier management?
Low capacity utilization?
High warranty costs?
Inflexible, disconnected operations?
Long cycle time?
High capital expenditures?
ADL helps clients create shareholder value by infusing innovation throughout their extended enterprise: in strategy, organization, sourcing and alliances, and customer relations.
We offer services in these key areas of opportunity:
Business focused R&D
Product and service creation process
Innovation strategy
Intangible asset management
Venturing and commercialization
Technology auditing and assessment
Organizational learning and change management
Bain's business is making companies more valuable. We convert strategy and action into economic performance.
We must measure success in terms of our clients' financial results. We put ourselves on the line right alongside our clients. We accept equity as part of our fees, and compensate our partners on clients' financial results.
So at Hyperstrategy, instead of the usual consultants' reports you get:
Solutions that matter. We don't settle for small improvements. We only accept assignments where we believe the client will see
Strategies that work. We dig deep to find the most relevant facts and realistic opportunities. We blend insight and experience from a large universe of industries and business models so we see beyond the limits of any single industry's traditions. Then we map out a practical course of action, something you can actually execute—rapidly.
Results that last. We keep working right alongside you to turn upstream advice into downstream results. We want you to win as much as you do. We follow through to help create lasting impact.
Industrial Marketing
Understanding user needs – gathering and interpreting
Identification of early users
Translating user needs into product design, marketing communications
Identifying new points of differentiation
Segmentation of industrial markets
Identifying drivers of demand downstream of the immediate customer, projections of demand
Identifying customer’s buying decision process and designing methods to address customer concerns.
Pricing policy
Distribution channel design