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How a technology services company succeeds to grow through technology turndowns?

 

Michael Giske

CEO and President
MG Solutions

Bob McRann
Director
Chairmen's Roundtable

September 6, 2006

 

(619) 237-1380

Michael Giske is the CEO and President of MG Solutions, a company that he founded in 1997. They are a services company who enable their customers, and their value chain to build and fully utilize integrated eBusiness Centers and Networks that are centered around our highly economical Webtop Infrastructure Solutions. They have gone through several growth cycles sometimes combined with growing pains. That pushed them to work with the Chairmen's Roundtable to see how they could sustain business at the next level. In this show, Michael will explore his journey with us.

LISTEN: SEGMENT ONE
Michael tells us how he came to the country and got started on his business. How do you start working as a small company with Fortune 500 companies?

LISTEN: SEGMENT TWO
As the business was growing, it started to face challenges as the external environment around them was changing. Michael tells us how he used a grave breakdown as an opportunity to shift strategy and create a new level of growth... He did this with the help of CRT. Bob gives us his impression when he met Michael and MG Solutions.

LISTEN: SEGMENT THREE
The Chairmen's Roundtable process really opened Michael's eyes as to not only the strategy they need to put in place, but also as the changes he needed to make to his infrastructure in order to fulfill the strategy. Bob gives us the perspective of how the CRT process worked for a company such as MG Solutions.

LISTEN: SEGMENT FOUR
Michael and Bob review some of the most important recommendations that he received from the CRT and the significant progress that they have made since implementing these recommendations. Bob underscores how MG Solutions is a great success story for the CRT.

 

MGS OVERVIEW

MGS has a long standing background in deploying Enterprise Solutions with a focus on Enterprise Application Integration for Web Services, Portal, Access/Identity Management extending into Asset Management and Service Centers.

MGS benefits from an in-depth diverse IdM product knowledge and large implementation experience ranging from 10,000 to over 100,000 users who are managed by our deployed solutions. In addition to MGS' core engineering background we provide VAR (Value Added Reselling) services for various software product vendors such as BEA, Citrix, HP, Passlogix and Sun.

With over 9 years of Enterprise Application Integration expertise and highly trained solution architects and engineers, MGS can be very effective in meeting even the most demanding customers' needs. MGS' high level of skills and experience has empowered our customers to adapt to new technologies and translate them effectively in a very short time frame - be it for our large commercial as well as government customers.

MGS received two significant HP Awards as part of HP's large annual Software Forum event in Miami 2006:

  • Best IdM Solution Partner" award which is a result of providing excellent delivery services in an ongoing repeatable manner.
  • Best Rising Star HP Partner" award which speaks to MGS ability to commit to a key objective and execute in a very decisive fashion.


For more information, please contact MGS at 1-619-237-1380 or go to www.mgsportal.com

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