A Musical Interlude

Shannon Farrell Williams and Jamie Hofman performed "Lament" by Frank Bridge at a gala on the occasion of the Twentieth Anniversary of the String Academy of Wisconsin in 2010. 


 

The String Academy is closely associated with the distinguished Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where both Mr. Hofman and Mrs. Williams continued their studies, working with Mimi Zweig, Atar Arad, Jerry Horner and others.   Today Mrs. Williams plays with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Colorado Music Festival.  Mr. Hofman is on the faculties of The String Academy, Carroll University and the Eastern Music Festival and has been a member of the Louisville Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, and the Louisville String Quartet.

The String Academy of Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee offers a unique educational experience for students ages four to eighteen to study the violin, viola and cello.  

Work We've Done

Click on the links below to see case study summaries of some of our past projects.

• Draining $70 million in Beer Distribution Costs
  
• Optimizing the Distribution Network
  
• A Better S&OP Process for a CPG Leader
• Simplifying Distribution for a Coffee Retailer
  
• Achieving Medical Claims Processing Accuracy
• Turning Data into Business Intelligence
• Fixing a Botched SAP Implementation
• Customer Service Leadership for a Major Brand
• Strategic Selling for Print and Distribution
  
• Restructuring a CPG Distribution Network
  
• Inventory Strategy for a Global Air Freight Carrier

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Restaurant Lifecycle Management

See these posts for perspectives on the development of retail and restaurant chains:

• A Lifecycle Approach to Retail Store Development discusses techniques for managing information about a retailer's most important asset
  
• The Evolution of the Quick Service Restaurant, our most popular post with college students, provides a condensed history of take-out food
• The Smart Kitchen discusses how enabling network monitoring of kitchen equipment can improve chain restaurant performance
• Design is Destiny, about the importance of using a holistic approach to restaurant design
• May I Have a Scone With My Coffee examines the information required to introduce a new capability to a restaurant chain.
  
• Starbucks: A New Forum reflects on the notion of retail location as meeting place
  
• Brand, Menu and Store Design, an excerpt from The Economist with our views on McDonald's branding dilemma
• Building the Scalable Enterprise, about the role of decisions about enterprise architecture in determining the success of McDonald's Corporation
• Too Many Starbucks? looks at the microeconomics behind the Starbucks phenomenon
• McDonald's Strategy: Meat, Potatoes and Coffee considers the direction McDonald's is taking under Jim Skinner

To learn more about our work in consulting, please see our Profile or check out our Case Studies.
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