The Forum Difference
Learn how Forum Solutions builds and implements effective strategies for transformative growth with sustainable results
Fearless Innovation & Change: The Art of Strategic Boldness
The most successful businesses do not just adapt to change — they drive it. While innovation styles vary across personalities, leadership approaches, and organizational structures, one element remains constant: the need for fearlessness. However, this fearlessness must be strategic, not reckless.
From Crisis to Growth: How a Retailer Revamped Direct Sales for Long-Term Success
During the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers faced declining business-to-business (B2B) sales and excess inventory. Forum Solutions helped a leading consumer goods retailer achieve significant revenue growth and enhanced customer engagement by helping them implement a direct-to-consumer sales and fulfillment strategy.
Room for All: Rainer Valley Food Bank Expands Their Facility and Programming
Room for All: Rainier Valley Food Bank Expands Their Facility and Programming
Keeping the Customer at the Forefront in Novel Product Development
Successful product innovation hinges on prioritizing real customer needs over novelty for novelty’s sake, emphasizing direct user engagement, co-creation with the customer, agile development, and usability to ensure meaningful impact.
Innovative Solutions for Faster Customer Service and Cost Efficiency
Enabling efficiencies and cost savings for a retail food & beverage company’s launch of new, innovative equipment.
The Power of Service: How Volunteering Strengthens Teams and Fuels Growth
Forum Solutions Senior Consultant Megan Myers shares her perspective on how volunteering strengthens teams and fuels growth.
A Strategic Approach to Market Expansion & Prioritization
Forum Solutions partners with Project Access Northwest to increase access to critical medical, dental, and behavioral health services.
Visual Storytelling to Accelerate Change
Using visual communication methods to improve delivery of important information for an airline client.
Forum Solutions Values Series: The Power of Collaboration
Forum Solutions’ Values Series: Where we explore the principles guiding our firm: Authenticity, Collaboration, Excellence, Inclusion, and Innovation. This edition focuses on Collaboration, a core value that fuels our collective progress and success at Forum Solutions.
Exploring the Solution: Persona-Driven Strategies in Integrating Multiple Companies Through an Acquisition
In this case study, we discuss how we helped our client reorganize their newly combined company following an acquisition. By leveraging each entity's core strengths, unifying operations, and managing changes, we enabled them to achieve their strategic goals and foster a cohesive organizational culture.
Accelerating the Mission to End Food Insecurity in Our Community
Forum Solutions partners with a local non-profit, Rainier Valley Food Bank (RVFB), to optimize their technology and enhance their efforts in combating food insecurity in South Seattle. By donating consulting hours, Forum will help to streamline RVFB's software and services, helping the organization maximize its community impact.
Cleared for Takeoff: How Strategic Change Management Ensured a Smooth Preferential Bidding System Rollout
Forum Solutions collaborated with a major North American airline to develop and execute a change management strategy for a new pilot preferential bidding system.
Integrating an Acquisition to Drive Value
To realize the value of an acquisition, Forum Solutions was brought in to successfully integrate two companies into one cohesive, collaborative team, creating a world class client and employee experience.
A Look Forward: Supply Chains, Global Markets and Sustainability
Today, global trade remains as unstable as ever, yet heightened awareness continues to fuel a commitment to readiness, and readiness in turn spurs the formulation of actionable strategies designed to navigate future risks and unforeseen events.
Off into the Sunset: Legacy Patient Treatment System Retirement
Off into the Sunset: Legacy System Retirement. Determining how to sunset a customized patient treatment management system without disrupting care.
Artificial Intelligence, Startups and Building Effective Teams
Jacob Colker, managing director of AI2, the Paul Allen Institute for AI on building team culture, especially in the intense dynamic of a start-up.
COVID, Politics and Shortening your Supply Chain
From boardrooms to dining rooms, businesses and consumers are experiencing the effects of supply chains in disarray. Business leaders need to prepare their organizations for the future.
Top Issues Facing Healthcare Executives Now
Provider-based healthcare delivery is one of the most rewarding and meaningful professional endeavors. Successfully meeting the mission of delivering high quality care with excellent outcomes to patients, delivering outstanding patient satisfaction, addressing provider burn-out, and recruiting and retaining staff, all while managing to thin margins is incredibly complicated.
Enterprise Strategy Department Organization Primer - Part 2 of 2
All organizations have limited resources, so it is critical to determine the objectives and initiatives that are most important to the organization and say “no” to those that are not a priority. To develop an effective strategy, leaders must prioritize goals and objectives, requiring due diligence, prioritization, and planning to make the best use of scarce resources. In part two of a two-part series, Arkan Kayihan shares Expanded Functions for Strategy Planning & Strategy Development teams.
Enterprise Strategy Department Organization Primer - Part 1 of 2
All organizations have limited resources, so it is critical to determine the objectives and initiatives that are most important to the organization and say “no” to those that are not a priority. To develop an effective strategy, leaders must prioritize goals and objectives, requiring due diligence, prioritization, and planning to make the best use of scarce resources. In part one of a two-part series, Arkan Kayihan shares Core Functions for Strategy Planning & Strategy Development teams.

