Mike Shorten has more than thirty-five years of formal consulting experience across various industries, including research and development, agriculture, wholesale and distribution, services, training, mining, manufacturing, tourism, electricity generation, and the public sector. He has led multiple projects focusing on strategy development and execution, target operating model definition, business process engineering and enterprise project management. He has worked with businesses across the size spectrum, from SMMEs to large listed corporations and government entities.Mike has worked for international consultancies and has a realistic view of where value can and cannot be added to a client's business. Complex solutions often end in failure. His business philosophy is to simplify.His primary strengths are in helping organizations define and implement strategies. This entails identifying problems or opportunities, facilitating strategy definition, defining operating models, determining actions to implement strategies, and in the implementation thereof. His passion lies in defining solutions to problems and then turning these solutions into methodologies.