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Gardner & Associates Consulting helps companies eliminate business execution problems that threaten profitable and sustainable growth as well as the livelihoods of corporate leadership.  

Business execution is quite simply the discipline of getting things done.

Since 1991, our clients have benefited from a results-oriented management consulting firm dedicated to improving our client's condition in ways that they alone cannot achieve.

We offer the experience, expertise and focused energy to help you realize your desired outcome in a timely manner.

Clients benefit from our pragmatism as well as our broad, hands-on operations expertise to resolve interdepartmental conflict and improve business execution. 

How are we different?

Are you ready to start fixing your business execution problems?

Contact us today so we can get started.

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David J. Gardner, Founder and Principal, is the only guy who has been working on approaches to satisfy each customer’s unique requirements for over 30 years for a variety of industries, products and services. He is known for his pragmatism and track record of achieving results for his clients.

He has held management and senior management positions in Product Development, Manufacturing, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service, and Product Management.

He joined Tandem Computers in 1979 where he was responsible for Corporate Documentation Standards for Tandem's highly configurable and expandable computer systems. Dave learned what happens when customers make choices that aren’t aligned with back-office processes.

In 1983, he designed and implemented a Configuration Guide for Dialogic Systems instituting a process that greatly simplified a complex, modular product such that the field sales organization and international OEM customers could easily define their order requirements. This methodology satisfied the product definition needs of sales, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, customer service and finance. 

David improved the approach for defining highly-configurable products at System Industries in the late 1980’s by developing a methodology that not only accommodated "new system" orders but also fully addressed "add-on" orders.  This company built modular disk and tape storage systems that could be attached to each computer system ever produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). 60% of the employees used the Configuration Guides as a means to validate and order highly configurable and expandable storage sub-systems used widely with Digital's computing systems. 

David founded his consulting practice in 1991.   Here are a few examples of consulting projects undertaken:

In July 2002, David was recruited by E-ONE, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of fire and rescue vehicles, as Vice President of Product Management to lead an enterprise-wide change initiative to:

Provide accurate material and labor costs to eliminate “margin surprises”

He is a graduate of San Jose State University (BA) and Santa Clara University (MBA).

David is also a member of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting (SAC) and has been Board Approved in the Area of Configurable Product & Services Strategy and Implementation.  This approval means that the consultant has worked in a specialized area for a considerable length of time; has provided detailed, documented evidence of success directly from clients in that specialty; and has conformed to the Code of Ethics of the Society, serving as a thought leader and exemplar in the profession in general and their specialty in particular. 

In 2010, he was inducted in the Million Dollar Consultant^® Hall of Fame.  Out of over 1,000 consultants who have gone through Alan Weiss’s mentoring program, 26 have been inducted in the Hall of Fame.

Gardner & Associates Consulting is an operating division of Lakshmi Ventures, Inc., a Nevada corporation.

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