Los Angeles-based Business Strategy Consulting firm with the single-minded purpose of increasing client shareholder value through developing distinctive strategy and tenacious execution.


Why Dobie Associates

Five facts that matter when choosing a Consulting Team:

1. If consultant’s can’t grow their own business, how can they help me?

Doug has built Dobie Associates, Inc., from 1 to 12 consultants and generated nearly 50% annual revenue growth from 2005 through 2009.

2. This is just a numbers game to these guys – consultants come in, tell us what we already know, create a binder of stuff, and leave all the time.

Dobie Associates average client tenure is more than two years and renewal rate after first engagement is 90%.

3. Consultants are guys who can’t do much and haven’t accomplished much.

Dobie was recognized as 2007, Advertising Age Marketer of Year for his work with MTVN and Amp’d Mobile. He has garnered trusted working relationships with the CEO’s, President’s and CMO’s from top companies in the wireless, content, entertainment, software and manufacturing sectors.

4. These guys just work with big companies, I’m a little guy – I need to get ROI on my consulting investment.

Dobie Associates makes its greatest impact in companies under $100 million in annual revenue; two recent clients have seen 30% top line growth – in the worst economy since the depression – based on consulting from Dobie Associates.

5. Once these guys leave, I’m stuck trying to implement something that is neither realistic or actionable.”

The Dobie Team takes execution seriously from day one. We develop a “knowledge transfer” matrix and work with clients to add key skills and capabilities simultaneously to work stream deliverables. The Dobie team will work to identify talent, on-board new employees and see the implementation through both Dobie resources and client’s to meet timelines and deliverable schedules. We’re there to the end. See renewal rates above.

Our Approach

• Collaborate. Identify and team with our client’s key stakeholders and subject matter experts throughout the organization to assure alignment and mutual success.
  
  
• Catalytic. Serve as a conduit, sounding board and catalyst for new ideas and change within our client’s organizations.
  
  
• Concentrate. Focus on the core drivers of our client’s business, not the symptoms; avoid chasing shiny objects.
  
  
• Continuous. Provide knowledge transfer to our clients throughout the engagement, enhancing necessary skills to ensure the strategy initiatives and programs fit our client’s capabilities; our recommendations must be measurable and able to be implemented.
  
  
• Client Centric. Bring energy and enthusiasm to our client’s workplace. Create an open, non-political, professional work environment.

Partial List of Dobie Clients:

• Amp’d Mobile, Los Angeles, CA
• Agency 3.0, Beverly Hills, CA
• Amber Watch Foundation, Irvine, CA
• Best Buy, Minneapolis, MN
• Business Machines Company, Lansing, MI
• Clearwire, Inc., Seattle, WA
• Facionic, Cologne, Germany
• FLO TV, A Qualcomm Division, San Diego, CA
• Fluidmaster, Inc., San Juan Capistrano, CA
• Highmark, Inc., Huntington Beach, CA
• IAMPO, Ontario, CA
• Motorola, Inc. Libertyville, IL
• Osprey Retail Systems, New Bedford, MA
• PCN, Sacramento, CA
• Progress Software, Bedford, MA
• Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA
• Sage Software, Inc, Irvine, CA
• Salesforce.Com, San Francisco, CA
• Toyota Material Handling, Irvine, CA
• Verizon Wireless, Bedminster, NJ