“The input of other executives who had successfully overcome the operating hurdles of working in Africa were invaluable for us. We could have spent hundreds of thousands on consultants but opted to engage peers who have been there and succeeded.” -- SVP Africa

The Council on Emerging Market delivered the following benefits to the participant:

• Helped participant identify major areas of operational waste relative to peers and proven capital and operating cost containment strategies that should improve profitability by over 25% within 12 months.
• Identified strategies for improving labor productivity by bringing over practices from other markets in Asia and Latin America that at one point suffered low productivity rates.
• Effectively set new benchmarks for operating performance based on regional realities.