WHO WE ARE

Optimize is a strategic consulting firm specializing in business planning.

We were founded in Los Angeles in 2002.

As strategic consultants, our work is based on a simple principle–that management teams should be intentional and treat strategy as a cycle, and not an event. When they formalize goals, objectives, project plans and KPIs, they optimize business results

We take mid-market management teams through a highly collaborative business planning process, that reveals a clear roadmap for the future. The very process of building a plan can unify a management team.

As strategy experts, we have developed tools, and methods that enable a thoughtful planning exercise. While we provide strategy advice, our real value is providing structure, and facilitating a process in which our client’s can make informed decisions based on data.

Meet Marc Emmer

Marc Emmer’s book Momentum, How Companies Decide What To Do Next, was covered by Yahoo Business, Business Insider, NBC and CBS.

At the heart of strategy are difficult choices that management teams need to make about concentration risk, diversification, and how to ensure that a company’s value proposition continues to resonate in the marketplace. While companies know they must provide unique value, the quest for differentiation can prove to be elusive.

Our Content

The Strategy Page: Show Me the Money Edition

The Strategy Page: Show Me the Money Edition

The AI narrative is changing before our very eyes. There is no longer a debate on whether it’s useful. In recent days, the focus has been on security, and AI threatening the human race. But there is another reality brewing. We are in a token war, and the implications for our economy are consequential.

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The Strategy Page: 10 Invisible Rules Edition

The Strategy Page: 10 Invisible Rules Edition

Business leaders love frameworks because they suggest we can control outcomes. We can’t. But we can understand the forces that repeatedly shape them.
Here are ten laws of business that govern our decision making on a daily basis.

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