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About Lori Williams
Lori Williams has over 15 years of experience in strategic planning, marketing, operations and finance. She has functioned as a business owner, corporate officer and consultant in a variety of
industries.
Through a combination of real life experiences and academia, she has developed a unique balance of intellect, experience and interpersonal skills.
Lori is the owner of a LW and Associates, a business consulting firm specializing in strategy and finance. As the Chief Strategist, Lori provides businesses with growth strategies designed to
increase revenues, profitability and build long-term sustainable growth.
In 2007 Lori founded Business Simply Put, a division and registered trade mark of LW and Associates, to provide smaller companies with affordable high-level information and advice. Business Simply
Put offers professionals access to business intelligence on key topics specific to small and medium-sized companies. This includes a wide variety of forums, including classes, seminars, webinar,
teleseminars, and products such as E-Books and E-Resources. Lori recognized the need for sound, simplified business wisdom and by combining experience, expertise and technology; she designed products
and services affordable to smaller companies.
Lori holds an MBA from Pepperdine University, BS Business and Management, an AA in Medical Science and a Practitioner’s license in NeuroLinguistic Programming. She is an adjunct professor at the
Lloyd Grief Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC, teaching the Business Plan Class and Feasibility Studies. She has been a requested speaker at business organizations and has addressed
esteemed audiences such as the IBM Big Blue Alumni, City Club, World Savings Bank, Citibank, and members of the Small Business Development Center located in California and Texas.
Lori is a published author. Her EBooks are distributed through Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Linkedin. She self-promotes her classes, seminars and workshops, in which she is solely responsible for
content and delivery.
She has an abundance of energy and believes anything is possible if you work hard and are committed to your dream.
Business Counsel A Forum for Ideas and Exchange: How can you build a large multi-national organization while maintaining a desired culture?
How can you build a large multi-national organization while maintaining a desired culture?
The culture of the company can
provide a competitive edge that can propel a company to reach success. This was
highly exemplified in the tech start-ups that have been able to successfully
challenge the long-standing institutions. Although it could be said that the
new technology presented by the start-up was the defining difference that
allowed these newcomers to excel, the question arises as to why the large
institution, given its expansive amount of resources could not have invented
the technology prior. Case in point MIT loaned Xerox six prototypes of the
laser printer, the first of their kind and some vice president at Xerox ignored
the opinion and aided not to pursue the technology. Canon was the first to
bring it to markets. What caused Xerox to ignore this potential advantage?
I have seen many organizations
where the top management perceived they understood the culture of their
organization; however, they really didn’t, especially subcultures. This challenge becomes increasing difficult as companies grow through
mergers and acquisitions, which can be a necessity since growing organically
may not be an effective strategy for large-scale growth.
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