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Better
Where
It Matters

Our Mission:

We help organizations become better where it matters. ​


​Third Gate Partners, Inc. is a global management consulting firm specializing in organization design, development, and change using a strategy-first approach for alignment within and alignment with markets to create compelling customer value. 
Our Core Values:
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Invention

​Create new value through the synthesis of ideas and diffusion of innovations 
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Relevance

Offer solutions that fully address unique organizational needs
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Harmony

Discover, understand, and apply the potential of culture in organizational systems 
We apply leading-edge theories and practices in an accelerated process of ​discovery, creation, and transformation.
Our Services
​We help leaders design, develop, and awaken the power of aligned organizations to
​achieve strategy and fulfill vision.
​​Services include:
  • Strategic Framework Creation
  • Organization Assessment and Evaluation
  • Systemic Organization Design
  • Management Governance Development
  • M&A Organizational Due Diligence and Integration
  • Leader Development Strategy and Coaching
  • Executive Connection and Alignment
  • Change Acceleration
  • Organization Design Capability Building
Outcomes
Design of the first disruptive innovation center in Asia for Life Insurance
Strategic alignment within a global electronics manufacturing company
Design of a networked sales organization in a global open-source technology company
Reinvention of a major not-for-profit organization from regional to national category leader
Comprehensive enterprise risk management framework, process, and organization for multiple companies
Improved collaborative processes at a global maritime services company
Global organizational redesign of an industry-leading Fortune 50 financial services company 
Enhanced strategic Human Resources capability with a global beverage leader​
Strategic and operational reinvention of a leading state industry trade association
Transformative organizational and executive consulting for a new bank’s journey from startup to market leadership

Strategy creation, organizational model change, and talent alignment for public and private mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures in US and global markets
Insights

The Levers of Leadership

Every leader has three essential levers they pull to create ​the right outcome for their enterprise:
Strategy
Strategy means making choices about the markets and customers to be served, the products or services to be delivered, and the competitive advantage to be built. We believe everything begins with a statement of that strategy—the combination of precise long-term objectives and a compelling customer value proposition. The right strategy will advance the march toward a vision, and set the course for building an effective organization.
ORGANIZATION
Unlike a table, or a house, or a car, organizations are invisible. Designing a material object is a matter of understanding its intended purpose, defining some design criteria, and building the object that fulfills those criteria. Organizations are essentially a set of agreements among people on how they will work both independently and together to create differentiated customer value worth marketing. Their blueprints are capabilities; their machinery structural groupings; their operating manual a system of management. Designing a good one takes both art and science.
TALENT
Placing the right person in the right role is the most essential element of any organization. But few are born knowing what to do in a particular job, especially as a leader of others. We believe a leader’s development must be continuous, adapting to the living, changing system for which they are responsible. Since it is impossible to be truly objective about one’s self, it may help to have someone mentor, advise, and at times mediate to break bad habits, establish good ones, and create healthy environments where people can do their best work.

Keys To Success

As living and dynamic systems, organizations cannot easily be built according to a mechanical blueprint. We believe in designing in context for culture.
context and culture
It is sometimes helpful to take a look at how other companies do something. If you are a global consumer products company, for example, it may be good to know how P&G or UniLever have structured their organizations. But such benchmarks only suggest how those firms solved their own problems—they don’t address yours. What are your mission (why you exist), vision (what you want to become), and strategy (where and how you will win in the markets you choose)? These and other dynamics determine the context—the unique set of circumstances that comprise your particular environment and setting. The foundation of context is culture—the manifestation of the shared core values, practices, and behaviors that the organization both has and would like to have. Often we think of culture as ‘the way things are here’ and in so doing may regard it as static and fixed. But culture, both social and organizational, is in reality fluid and evolving. It changes over time as people join, stay, and leave. If we fully understand context and account for culture, then we can build organizations that are truly fit for purpose.

The Value Creation System

We believe that organizational value is created by connecting aspiration and execution. This system begins with Mission and ends with Talent.
Aspire
MISSION
Why we exist
 A mission is a statement of purpose. It defines who you are and endures over time. Fulfilling the mission is the ultimate aspiration of an organization’s work.
VISION
What we want to become
Vision conveys a vivid image of a compelling long-term goal. President Kennedy provided the benchmark for vision statements in 1961: “This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” Clear, concise, and a call to collective action.
VALUES
What we stand for
A company’s core values are those shared principles that define its culture and bind its people together in their ideas, decisions, and actions.
STRATEGY
Where and how we will win
Strategy is the binding agent between aspiration and execution that determines which markets, what offering, and how to differentiate.
CAPABILITIES
Organizational competencies
An organization’s capabilities are its set of differentiating competencies that enable the achievement of strategy.
ORGANIZATION
The right system
This is the living system that must build the capabilities that deliver the strategy to reach the vision and fulfill the mission.
TALENT
The right people
This is what matters most in any organizational system. The right group of individuals comes together to perform in a way that expresses their values, manifests their capabilities, and creates tangible value for the firm, its customers and its stakeholders.
Execute
Industries
We have experience and expertise in these domestic and global categories:
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Banking

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Insurance

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