Strengths

1. Asif J. Mir is highly motivated, energetic, and dynamic business leader with 35 years of strong management experience in Strategic Planning, Marketing Science, International Business, Supply Chain, Outsourcing, Trade Finance & Project Finance, Globalized Outsourced Production, Business Performance & Turnaround Strategies, Procurement & Purchasing, Module Development and Training, Strategic Investment.
2. Visionary and creative Leader. Asif J. Mir expresses vision in strategic business terms rather than technical terms, and in a manner that generates enthusiasm, buy-in, and motivate managers to work together toward reaching common goals.
3. Team Builder. He can put together a covey of co-workers committed to a common cause.
4. Fluent in English, Arabic, and Urdu/Punjabi. Using ICT he can write in any world language.
5. Innovation & Creativity. Asif J. Mir maintains an inspiring history of using innovation and creativity as tools for success.
6. Profit and result oriented. Familiar with the art of increasing revenue, profit and market share growth.
7. Strategic and tactical business planner. Recognized for unusual strategies.
8. Knowledge Manager. Determine what information within an organization qualifies as valuable for not all information is knowledge, and not all knowledge is valuable. Capable of managing knowledge to the advantage of the organization he works for. Asif J. Mir draws on human competency, intuition, ideas, and motivations.
9. Knowledge Synergy. Asif J. Mir integrates new concepts of institutional transformation and show interim successes along with progress made on more protracted efforts such as multiyear systems developments infrastructure, or enterprise architecture projects.
10. Asif J. Mir is orderly and goal-directed. Firmly tied to the strategic objectives of the organization. He is inextricably tied to the strategic objectives of the organization.
11. Asif J. Mir constantly tests, updates, revises Knowledge and sometimes even "dump" when it is no longer practicable. It is a fluid, ongoing process with Asif J. Mir.
12. Partnerships and Alliances. Asif J. Mir draws upon pooled expertise, relationships, and alliances. He furthers the two-way exchange of ideas by bringing in experts from the field to advise or educate managers on recent trends and developments.
13. High-profile Clientele. Asif J. Mir has worked for high-profile organizations and entities, including world’s largest Fortune 500 companies.
14. Global recognition as a celebrated leader.
15. Demonstrated success rate: 99 percent.

 Business Solutions


Business is not an academic discipline but more of an art. Asif J. Mir adequately understands the mysteries and ambiguities of today’s business practices and can provide independent and objective advice and counsel to clients across a variety of industries, business and geographic areas. He believes that his value comes from his combination of expertise, knowledge and skill in practicing the art of business. He works with his clients to understand, visualize and achieve their long-term objectives and business goals. He strives to be empathetic, persuasive and practical in his assessments and recommendations. He approaches each project with enthusiasm and embrace working with his clients as a team.


 Business Strategy Development


Asif J. Mir has a disciplined methodology for helping clients develop and implement corporate and business unit strategies that can help grow shareholder value. His support to clients in numerous industries has helped them in existing strategic directions or charting new ones. His approach blends a wide variety of inputs ranging from traditional analyses, to customer loyalty assessments, and unique cultural assessment exercises. He actively involves his clients’ employees to set the stage for implementation and results. He applies his expertise across industry lines to provide a more global perspective on how to navigate change and what it takes to make business strategy development successful. He can also facilitate strategic planning and business planning sessions for senior management teams to help provide a view of an industry's competitive environment as well as develop plans, goals, and performance targets.


 Knowledge Management


As commercial organizations face up to modern pressures to downsize and outsource they have lost knowledge as people leave and take with them what they know. This knowledge is increasingly being recognized as an important resource and organizations are now taking steps to manage it. In addition, as the pressures for globalization increase, collaboration and co-operation are becoming more distributed and international. Knowledge sharing in a distributed international environment is becoming an essential part of Knowledge Management. Asif J. Mir can help your organization create a knowledge hub by:

1. Creating a knowledge vision
2. Developing a knowledge crew
3. Building a high-density field of interaction at the front line
4. Initiating a dynamic new-product development process
5. Adopting middle-up-down management model
6. Switching to a flexible organization
7. Constructing a knowledge network with the outside world

 Marketing Science


Asif J. Mir offers you experience in conducting market analysis, assessing and prioritizing opportunities and threats to the business, developing and planning responses, and providing assistance with implementation of action plans. He goes beyond reciting facts and provides insight and assessments of your market and its impact on strategy, operations, competition and resources. To help obtain, maintain, and increase the profitability of your business, he provides a working framework that puts each of your employees on the same page.  


Business Planning


Leading enterprises are characterized by both good results and good fundamental management processes. Long-term success can be achieved and sustained by building the infrastructure for sound planning and management. The services of Asif J. Mir include strategic and business planning, performance indicator development and review, organization design and workload-based staffing, project prioritization and approval processes. Each of these services is not an end, but a field-proven means to better operating and business results. He provides the structure, templates, and tools to facilitate progress from a budget-centered mindset to true business planning. His methodology links goals to the corporate strategy and then identifies specific initiatives at each organizational level for each goal. He employs workshops to mobilize a large number of employees quickly and effectively in developing their own business plans to support top-down objectives. When the planning process is complete, the stage is set for clear accountabilities and effective performance management.


 Performance Management


Asif J. Mir believes that successful performance management incorporates three fundamental components:

1. Creation of formal business plans that define the organization's long- and short-term goals, key performance indicators and initiatives to achieve stated goals
2. Continual reporting of performance towards achievement of stated goals
3. Linkage between the performance management system and the business planning process to drive results through individual performance plans, rewards, and periodic management reviews.
4. Asif J. Mir can help you make the performance management process a driving component of an overall human capital management program and integrate performance evaluation, compensation, talent assessment, and succession planning. By using performance management as the driver, he integrates these distinct processes to create a consistent, holistic view of each individual. This approach prevents silos between the processes and the risk of fragmentation or inconsistency. The result is a more consistent, logical and efficient means of evaluating and developing your employees. This integration also links performance, pay, development, and promotion decisions. The result is a more consistent, logical and efficient means of evaluating and developing your employees.

 Technology Management


In the eyes of many executives, technology is both a blessing and a curse. New technologies can deliver unique capabilities and benefits; but all too often, technology costs too much, takes too long to deliver benefits or doesn't deliver them at all. Packaged systems are becoming commodities that fail to deliver differentiation and often don't align with business processes or strategies. The proliferation of products and platforms increases costs and complexity—leading to a greater number of failed or over-budget IT projects. Changes to products and software providers also increase the risks associated with major IT investments. Technology management is hard. Asif J. Mir has a keen interest in helping businesses manage their technology and IT organizations effectively. He can address your issues related to IT/business alignment, outsourcing, leadership and governance by helping to define and implement the right business model for you. By focusing on speed, simplicity and cost effectiveness, he can work with you to design and implement appropriate tools and structures.


 Business Process Reengineering


Creating powerful new processes is not easy, however. Process change is typically complex and far-reaching, and it touches every aspect of work—who does it, how it's done, how it's measured, how it's rewarded, and who's in charge. Asif J. Mir can help you achieve substantial cost savings and other process-related improvements by guiding teams as they assess current-state processes, define future-state goals, and develop action plans to close the gaps. By using a combination of data gathering, interviews, observations and analysis techniques, he can help you improve all facets of your daily operations. Key process measures and methods for ongoing improvements are incorporated to provide lasting change.


 Organization Design


An effective organization design is a key to achieving an entity's business strategy. In its broadest sense, organization design encompasses configuring structures, processes, reward systems and supportive programs to create an effective organization. Asif J. Mir uses a structured process in designing new organizations, select the appropriate staff and build the supporting infrastructure. He applies sound fundamental management principles, knowledge of your business, and a clear understanding of your unique needs. He provides you with assistance, tools, and techniques in defining optimized organization structures that provide traction for your business strategy and contribute to long-term business success. Then he is there to help you determine how to staff your organization cost effectively. This process actively engages critical client staff and is conducted to align the organization with strategy, as well as to ensure legal defensibility.


 Project Management and Change Management


The success of any new project or major change hinges upon an organization's ability to implement that change. Change management must be done—and done well—or the project will not meet expectations. Asif J. Mir develops an integrated approach to build the capacity (willingness and ability) of an organization to make required changes. His process is based on behavioral science principle and is implemented through effective project management practices. He applies a consistent project methodology to all engagements, supported by a variety of planning tools to make the process more efficient. The very nature of his business—helping clients address problems by developing and implementing effective solutions—means he has to successfully manage change projects every day.


 Global Alliances


Asif J. Mir has developed strong connections with international firms to broaden the reach. He offers clients a unique blend of specialized firms with global capabilities. Through and through, collaborations enhance innovation, and my network allows me to combine the experience, talents, and insights of the alliances with my deep knowledge and specialization.


 Human Resources Services


An increasing number of companies are asking their human resources (HR) functions to assume larger and more strategic roles—without increasing costs. To meet these demands, many HR functions are moving to hybrid frameworks that include centralized and decentralized services. Asif J. Mir has accumulated a dedicated human resources practice that consults across a wide range of industries. Within HR shared services, he works in strategic and tactical capacities, including strategic planning, service delivery design and implementation, organization design, shared services design and implementation, service center build and launch, merger integration, cost reduction, process redesign, business case development, technology selection, and outsourcing.


 Supply Chain


Supply chain management has grown over the past decade from a back-office function to one of critical strategic importance, yielding significant—and positive—changes in the way we do business. Asif J. Mir helps his clients craft new supply chain strategies, restructure their supply chain organizations, and significantly improve daily operations. He has supported client initiatives across the full range of supply chain processes, including:

• Planning and forecasting
• Strategic sourcing
• Procurement outsourcing
• Inventory management and warehousing
• Freight and transportation management
• Supplier relationship management
• Accounts payable

He offers deep knowledge across a variety of industries and experience in implementing practical, results-focused change. He is able to rapidly assess your current supply chain situation, identify practical opportunities for improvement, and estimate the financial and business benefits associated with implementing the change.


 Global Scale


Previously, each global region, or even individual country, was considered independent from a shared services perspective; this is no longer the case. Continuing pressures to obtain more cost savings from back-office operations are requiring companies to look for more economies of scale from multinational shared services. At the same time, improvements in technology have made it feasible to perform shared services functions centrally for global business units. Asif J. Mir’s shared services reach is global. He has worked with clients worldwide, including North America, Asia, Europe and Africa, and has established shared services centers in these regions and has helped design numerous global shared services delivery models for a variety of shared services functions. He is familiar with global shared services best practices and trends both from our consulting work and from participation in shared services conferences any part of globe.


Outsourcing Consulting


Organizations are constantly focused on keeping costs low and production high. In the never-ending push for optimum efficiency, outsourcing is an attractive option. Many companies already have made the transition and experienced tremendous growth, and business process outsourcing is right on its heels. Asif J. Mir is well known for his expertise in corporate services delivery, which is the focus of many outsourcing efforts. Because his partners and consultants understand management issues and its impact on your business, he is able to help ensure that you can effectively make, communicate, and sell outsourcing decisions. As a recognized leader in outsourcing consulting services, he has proven methodologies, industry resources, templates and experience with outsourcing, in-sourcing and co-sourcing. What sets him apart is his unique blend of independence, service delivery expertise, and senior-level involvement with each project. Asif J. Mir understands the impact outsourcing decisions can bring to any organization, and he pays particular attention as he helps his clients manage and prepare for this change to help ensure a smooth transition. He can help you make thoughtful and prudent business decisions to:

1. Determine the strategy for outsourcing
2. Assess the need for outsourcing and build the business case
3. Decide what to outsource
4. Develop and evaluate requests for proposals
5. Select an appropriate vendor
6. Define the commercial and technical relationship
7. Negotiate and develop the contract
8. Implement and execute the plan
9. Manage organizational change

As in all of my practice areas, Asif J. Mir can provide you the benefit of my experience through hands-on leadership and active involvement. He has extensive outsourcing consulting and management experience and am directly accountable to you for the success of your project.