H2O Solutions: The Challenges of a Start-Up Company in San Francisco
Signature Assignment # 1: Case Study Essay
H2o Solutions
The Challenges of a Start-Up Company in San Francisco
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Signature Assignment # 1: Case Study Essay:
Case Context
A promising start-up company in San Francisco called, H2o Solutions, has requested onsite consulting support from your consulting firm called Integer Management and Leadership Consulting. H2o Solutions, for the last 14 months, has been scaling-up and expanding their capacity by adding new employees across all departments. The total number of employees now stands at 131.
The company produces water saving recycling systems for residential use. Though this has become a crowded space, H2o Solutions has an advantage in that they have intentionally hired people with engineering expertise coupled with passion and commitment to the environment. Additionally, H2o Solutions from its inception, hired people who demonstrated a high level of emotional intelligence. This allowed the company to bring people on board who were smart, innovative, highly collaborative, relational, and team-based.
In the distant past, the planning and goal-setting for H2o Solutions was done only by the senior leadership team which included both co-founders and the vice presidents of engineering, marketing, sales, service, research and product development, and human resources. Each vice president had one manager who served as a direct report.
Case Study: H2O Solutions
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Case Study: H2O Solutions
In the current and conversational business world, H2O solutions will not be able to use traditional concepts of planning and goal setting. This is because the firm has experienced tremendous growth and expansion in the past years creating a complex commercial environment. This means that H20 Solutions is responsible for answering shareholders and several inputs. Notably, the organization’s management has demanded a more flexible and responsive strategy of goal setting, and planning to help the company adjust swiftly to the changing market trend. Also, the firm has changed its focus from growth and expansion to strategies, goal-setting, and planning that is more concise, inclusive, strategic, organic, and responsive. This means that the current H20's planning and goal-setting strategy is not meeting the demands of the expanding firm.
Being a firm motivated to expand, I would recommend a planning and goal-setting strategy that is responsive, organic, and inclusive for H2O solutions. This is because