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Business Consulting

When you engage Tom Y. Sawyer you are bringing significant expertise to bear on your problem, situation or opportunity.

This expertise includes:

Tom is a leader, a mentor, and an organizational and systems expert who will bring insight, energy, discipline and real-world experience to an organization when they need it most. In addition, Tom can bring the marketing and creative expertise of the entire RSW team to the table, providing unparalleled depth in business development services.

"Tom Sawyer is a true expert when it comes to information technology management and implementation. I have always found him to be a man of very high standards, both technically and ethically. If he promises something, he delivers more and he handles problems with more professionalism than any other I have met." – Nathan Kannan, Director of GIS - Technical Services, Sentinel USA, Inc

He understands how to find and optimize the value, the ‘profit engine’ of each enterprise, and he also assesses, understands and mitigates risks. He helps you arrive at solutions by following a proven, systematic process. His methods are grounded in the success of his past engagements and in the understanding that innovation and speed are vital nutrients in business.

His entrepreneurial spirit, enthusiasm and people-oriented approach, combined with his technical and financial know-how, produce real value you can see and measure.

With a sense of urgency tempered with pragmatism and a unique understanding of human nature, he works on behalf of his clients to bring economically feasible processes to life. Tom is a creator, builder, and fast-track implementor. He gets things done.

Startups and Early Stage Businesses

Entrepreneurs at the startup stage often face daunting challenges in strategic planning, financial modeling, systems implementation, information technology, human resource management, product development, funding and more. An organizational expert, problem solver, and author of a successful book on financial modeling, Tom Y. Sawyer brings real-world expertise to an organization when they need it the most.

As a professional business and technology strategist, Tom's mission is to provide targeted expertise aimed at assisting entrepreneurs at the early stages of their venture. With his entrepreneurial background, he has the unique ability to look at problems through the prism of real-world experience. He assesses, understands and mitigates risks. And he helps you arrive at solutions by following a proven, systematic process. His methods are grounded in the success of his past engagements and in the understanding that innovation and speed are vital nutrients in business. His entrepreneurial spirit, enthusiasm and people-oriented approach, combined with his technical and financial know-how, produce real value you can see and measure.

Mature Growing Businesses

For operating organizations where the status-quo is well entrenched, Tom brings a fresh perspective and innovative ideas to the process of successfully reengineering any business model. Beginning with a fundamental understanding of "what is," Tom quickly identifies "what could be," then helps the business owner implement the changes required to get you there. His ultimate goal is to help you increase the value of your business. Tom's unique blend of experience lets him get to the core of the issue right away, then craft process-driven solutions that meet your business development needs head-on. He possesses an urgency and integrity that cause people around him to mobilize.

Tom is a fanatic about linking business goals with a solid strategy. He brings a combination of CEO and CTO level expertise to the project, along with a keen understanding of risk assessment and mitigation, technology requirements, financial modeling and hands-on management.

Process Flow

Process Flow

Tom will work closely with you to develop a plan that includes time, money and resources required. He will then help you implement the plan, with a sharp eye on the schedule, the budget and above all, progress. In working with Tom you'll find that simple solutions overcome complex problems. His entrepreneurial approach saves time and money while producing high-quality, durable and on-target results. Tom provides an objective anchor to reality while applying creativity to develop innovative, comprehensive solutions.

Tom Y Sawyer is driven to produce excellence in his area of expertise, his interface with clients and in the businesses he helps build. He measures his success by the relationships he maintains with business owners who have benefited from his engagement. These business owners are successful, in no small part, because they looked to Tom to help them get where they wanted to go, when they most needed his help.