She joins Fisher’s consulting team in Guangzhou and Shanghai at a time when China is transitioning from unbridled growth to a managed investment model. Although the business climate remains frenetic, a shift to operational excellence now drives decision making among China’s paper industry stakeholders. Fisher believes the need for strategic thinking through a Leveraged Consulting approach has never been greater.

“Xia Min’s consulting background combined with her knowledge of pulp and paper business operations in Asia dovetails nicely with our clients’ needs to add a layer of strategy consulting to the business intelligence resources we provide,” notes Fisher General Manager, Stanley Okoro, adding, “We know from experience that traditional consulting with high overhead and lengthy delivery cycles is not how the paper industry with its thin margins operates and, frankly, it’s not the way China operates."

Leveraged Consulting Means a Fast Track to the Finish

In her new capacity, Ms. Xia will demonstrate the value of Leveraged Consulting for clients who must quickly understand their competitive positions and develop asset optimization strategies in advance of major investments decisions. As she puts it, “The lion’s share of a consulting project is consumed by doing research and assembling data before the analytical work and insight begin. By contrast, Fisher’s Leveraged Consulting means I can begin the substantive work on day one of the project because most of the necessary asset, production, cost and industry data that I need is already available in abundant detail for every paper mill and machine in the world. In addition, the analytic models have already been built specifically for the paper industry in the FisherSolve^™ platform. Consequently, we can provide insights and answers to the client’s challenges, delivering on our commitment to them more quickly, effectively, and at low cost.”

Clients who use Fisher’s Leveraged Consulting services point to another distinct advantage: they can easily pivot their focus, ask more questions, and explore more scenarios letting real-time discoveries guide the direction of a consulting project to its optimum conclusion. Ms. Xia laments, “Unfortunately, traditional consulting does not permit this kind of agility. Too often, the time and costs consumed at the front end of a project set the direction and force analysts to push ahead on a predefined course no matter where new revelations suggest one should be going. I can safely say, Fisher’s Leveraged Consulting approach is unique in the industry because we are the only ones who have the combination of data, analytics, and expertise that lets our clients fast-forward to the solutions they seek.”

Xia Min earned her MBA from Thailand’s Asia Institute of Technology, School of Management and has over ten years of paper industry experience with a focus on Asia Pacific strategy development in packaging, tissue, and market pulp. She can be reached at xmin@fisheri.com

Fisher International supports the pulp and paper industry with business intelligence and strategy consulting services. With research resources in nearly every pulp and paper producing country in the world, Fisher’s comprehensive databases, analytical technologies, and expert consultants are used by the paper industry around the world every day. To learn more, please visit www.fisheri.com