The only way to gain lasting competitive advantage today is to leverage your capabilities around the world.

Charlesmore helps companies expand internationally and stake out a transnational position of consequence - creating global-scale efficiency and competitiveness, retaining national-level responsiveness and attaining cross-market capacity to leverage core competencies on a worldwide basis.

Access to new markets, new talent pools, lower cost structures bring significant benefits. But operating internationally and establishing a true transnational capability are quite different. Today's transnational enterprise secures competitive advantage through building global-scale process efficiencies, national-level customer responsiveness and by leveraging knowledge and core competencies across borders.

Charlesmore's consultants have worked in over 44 countries on six continents helping businesses globalize and create transnational advantage.

Global integration involves a strategy of viewing international markets holistically and fusing operations into a single worldwide strategic entity. This assures centralized control over key resources and operations that are strategic in the value chain and that all major decisions are made from a global perspective.

Global integration does not necessarily mean selling the same product or service in the same way all over the world. What it does mean is that decisions on how to address local customer needs or market differentiation are made by managers who have an integrated global point of view.

Global integration can provide a firm operating internationally with a number of important benefits derived from a worldwide optimization of resources including economies of scale, value chain linkages, global customer coverage, global branding, capability leverage, process standardization and information advantage.

Charlesmore helps clients plan for and achieve global integration.