The Renewal Consulting Group
Charlottetown, PE
Company Overview
Rob Paterson is an organizational architect. His practice is called The Renewal Consulting Group Inc. Rob specializes in designing networked organizations that use significantly less capital, have much lower costs and have stronger connections to customers than traditional structures. His focus is in helping executives develop their vision for new ventures or for when they have to merge competing cultures.
His customers include major departments of the Federal and Provincial governments, universities, high schools, community colleges, companies in the private sector, research organizations and non-profit organizations. Some of his assignments include: advising Industry Canada at the outset of their 'Connecting Canada' initiative; advising the President of the Interac Association on the application of the Interac model to other partnerships; advising the founder of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research on networks and outreach;
advising the Clerk and the Deputy of Management Board for Ontario on networked organizations; advising the Clerk and Deputies of the PEI Public Service on the Knowledge Economy (The Knowledge Economy Partnership, an IPAC innovation award winner was an outcome of this assignment); advising the PEI Department of Agriculture on the transition between the commodity and the information economy; providing the founding vision for a number of new economy entities on Prince Edward Island such as the Atlantic Centre for Health, Solanum PEI (winner of an IPAC award for innovation), the Belvedere Group and the World Potato Learning Centre.
Rob is a strong believer in the non-profit community. He is a founder and the treasurer of the Child Alliance, a founder of The Natural Step on Prince Edward Island and a director and treasurer of the Strathgartney Foundation. He has been a director of the Marion Foundation in Massachusetts and of the Smile Theatre Company in Toronto.
Rob writes and speaks regularly on the new economy. He is currently teaching the first online business course on The Natural Step with Tim Carroll at the University of Prince Edward Island.
Background
Prior to being in private practice, Rob worked for Wood Gundy and latterly for CIBC where his last position was as Senior Vice President Policy Development & Strategic Management, Human Resources. In this role, he was responsible for predicting major social and business trends and for advising the chairman on the appropriate structural and cultural responses.
While in this position, Rob redesigned the entire compensation, staffing and benefit systems so that they would reflect a culture of team-work and personal responsibility. Before taking up this portfolio, Rob was the SVP Marketing. In this role Rob was responsible for the strategic planning and information management processes of the Investment Bank. His principal responsibility was to manage the challenging business and cultural merger of Wood Gundy and CIBC's Investment Bank and the customer issues relating to the acquisition of Merrill Lynch's retail business by Wood Gundy. Prior to the merger, Rob acted as the personal assistant to the President of the Investment Bank as he built a global investment banking operation from scratch.
Before taking up these corporate roles, Rob was, for 14 years, a line executive in investment banking. He has worked in many cultures and countries - in Canada, the USA, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. His main task as a line banker was in developing new lines of business in new markets. He set up Wood Gundy's international bond sales in North America, Wood Gundy's institutional business in the Middle East and CIBC's Eurobond business in Europe. Prior to working conventionally, Rob was a diamond prospector for De Beers in Botswana. Rob has two grown up children and lives with his wife, Robin, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Education
Educated at Harrow School in England, Rob has an M. A. Honours in History from Oxford University.
Company Information
Physical Address
673 Bunbury Rd
Charlottetown, PE C1A 7J8
CA
Mailing Address
P. O. Box 3281
Charlottetown, PE C1A 8W5
CA
Additional Details
Legal Name: The Renewal Consulting Group Inc.
Number of Employees: 2
CA
One of the risks of entering the new economy is believing that it operates using the same rules as the traditional economy.
Rob's role is to help you see these new rules and then determine how to shift your enterprise to take advantage of them. For instance, until recently Prince Edward Island's agriculture has seen its economic future in trying to produce and sell more potatoes. But we have reached our production limit. Some even suggest the PEI has breached it. What was the reframe beyond simply producing more? It was to look differently at PEI to discover its core competency and to look out at the world and find customers who needed this competency. PEI's core competency is that it has a group of people who really know everything about potatoes from production to research. The global opportunity is that the potato has become the third most important crop in the world and that the developing world has rapidly adopted the potato as an essential food crop. The global requirement has become to learn how to set up sustainable potato systems. The match is to connect PEI's expertise with this requirement. PEI's current Knowledge Agriculture strategy is derived from this type of analysis.
This type of reframe of the problem and the opportunity is at the heart of the 'Renewal Process'. Most executives assume that their job is at its core to sell things. The new economy requires that you, the executive, expand this foundation to focus on selling the related service or information.
When you have seen your business in this new context, you then have to reframe how you are organized. The traditional hierarchical organizational system and arms length relationships with suppliers and customers works against the creativity and speed of response required to be successful in the new economy. So the second stage of the 'Renewal Process' examines how you are organized internally and looks at all the relationships that you have with all outsiders.
At this point you will be equipped to begin to redesign your enterprise so that it is aligned with the new rules of the new economy.
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Services
- Organizational & Strategic Planning
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