ARE YOU PERFECTLY DESIGNED TO GET THE RESULTS YOU EXPECT?
Don't let poor design choices and an obsession with boxes and lines destroy enterprise value
ABOUT
Pragmatic Solutions - Tangible Results
Bryant Park Partners is a boutique management advisory firm founded by Don Ruse that specializes in helping companies scale and profitably grow by intentionally designing their organizations and aligning their leadership teams to effectively execute strategy.
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We help clients profitably grow through rigorous problem solving and deploying pragmatic solutions that actually work.
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We partner with senior leaders to clarify and articulate their strategy and the organization and culture needed to effectively execute it. From there, we roll up our sleeves and work side by side to design an organization, operating model, and culture that is fit for purpose.
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APPROACH
Our approach has been shaped and proven through decades of experience working with companies across a variety industries and geographies. The following five tenets guide how we approach designing an optimal organization for our clients:
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Focus only on what truly drives value for your customers and stakeholders.
Start with the end in mind and be clear on the quantifiable and tangible results you want your strategy to achieve and your organization design to enable.
Form ever follows function. Always start with an understanding of the work. Redrawing boxes and lines without a clear understanding of the capabilities needed to play and win is a total waste of time.
Governance and operating norms are what really counts in making an organization operate effectively and efficiently.
There is no "best practice design". Don't design your organization based on purported best practices. Each organization has unique capabilities, culture and strategy that should drive the design that is optimal for your company.
SERVICES
Pragmatic Solutions-Tangible Results
STRATEGY CLARIFICATION
We work with leaders to clarify and and articulate their business strategy, understand the capabilities they need to play and win in their respective marketplace, and identify what this means for how their organization, operating model and culture should be designed and evolved.
ORGANIZATION DESIGN
We take an integrated and comprehensive approach to design your organization that always starts with the work and how best to accomplish it.
Our focus includes enterprise-wide architecture that aligns operating units or geographies around new strategy or business conditions.
We also help clients redefine and redesign corporate functions to effectively enable strategy execution.
GOVERNANCE AND OPERATING MODEL
We intentionally design how people in organizations actually work together, make decisions and define success. This includes hardwiring collaboration into formal and informal ways of working, ensuring the right information flows to the right people, defining relevant and meaningful metrics, and clarifying who makes decisions and how these decisions get made.
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LEADERSHIP TEAM EFFECTIVENESS
We help leadership teams improve their effectiveness to execute by establishing clear focus, well-understood ways of working, and constructive team dynamics built on a foundation of trust.
MEET THE FOUNDER
DON RUSE
Don is a seasoned business executive and trusted advisor with an extensive track record of helping companies scale and profitably grow.
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His efforts have helped clients across five continents address new growth opportunities, cost and profitability pressures, and large-scale organization transformation challenges including merger integration, corporate center design, capacity expansion, and corporate restructuring.
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In addition to serving clients, Don is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Management Department of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Don teaches in the undergraduate, MBA and executive education programs. He is also a Faculty Advisor to the Office of the President on matters of university strategy implementation.
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Don earned his Global Executive MBA through the prestigious TRIUM program jointly issued by New York University Stern School of Business, London School of Economics and Political Science, and HEC Paris School of Management. He earned is Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University.
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Don and his family spilt their time between Austin, Texas and Ambergris Caye, Belize. When not teaching or consulting, you can find Don at the race track where he enjoys high performance driving, traveling with his family, and fishing in the blue waters of the Caribbean.
