We’ve Learned From Experience

James O’Neil founded Impact Skill Sets in 2001 after 25 years of successfully starting, building, and managing growth-oriented companies.  His goal was to distill what he had learned through those experiences into an approach that could make virtually any business more successful.  His approach—The IMPACT Skill Sets approach—has three major components:

   Growth Strategy Planning

    Choosing, planning, and taking actions on the right growth strategies are critical factors for success. We provide a practical, cost-effective approach to analysis, breakdown, and build up of growth strategies. Our strategy planning sessions are designed and implemented to dig deep into the architecture of companies. Our sessions deliver high definition roadmaps and mile markers measurement.

   Business Assessment

   Our approach to business assessment begins by assessing your management team. Our objective is to get a view of your business from the inside. We then proceed to perform an external assessment involving studies of market dynamics. We conduct interviews with customers, suppliers, sales people, etc. to get a view from the outside. Our last step is to assimilate the information, form a knowledge base of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats charts, and build a tactical plan focused on actual needs.

Tactical Implementation

   Once a strategic plan has been developed, ensuring that synergy is achieved across all of your business is critical. Aligning and linking the organization to the vision and strategic objectives is crucial to the success of the plan. Our team provides an array of tools to describe, roll out, and implement the tactical initiatives in a timely and orderly way. Our goal is to properly channel energies, focus on needed abilities and direct specific tactical plans which will assure success.