Our Milestones

1978

Established Optimal Development Consultancy, Inc., a management
research and development firm, in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines;
call name used is Optimal Technology Center;

Proprietary technology product copyrighted

  • Optimal Records System
    A proprietary method for paper-based information storage and retrieval, used as a conceptual framework for records management in large organizations

Other services

  • Feasibility studies, industry studies and business development studies.

1984

Proprietary technology product copyrighted

  • Organization & Systems Development Program
    An institutional development program aimed at professionalizing one of Indonesia’s pharmaceutical business enterprises.

1985-1986

Assisted in setting up records retention program based on
Optimal Records System at Pertamina, state-owned oil and gas
production enterprise;

Proprietary technology product copyrighted

  • Entrepreneurship & Business Management
    A learning program developed for one of Indonesia’s business schools.

Assisted in setting up an integrated filing system based on Optimal
Records System at Huffco (now Vico), Pertamina’s production-sharing
contractor and Indonesia’s largest gas production enterprise;

Proprietary technology product copyrighted

  • The Optimal Presentation System
    A learning program designed to help managers improve their
    platform and composition skills.

1987-1989

Established PT Optimal Technology Inti, which deployed proprietary
technology products and services of both Optimal Technology
products and those of the Optimal Technology Center within the
territorial limits of the Republic of Indonesia; call name is OTI;

Proprietary technology product copyrighted:

  • Corporate Culture: Barang Jadi atau Buatan Sendiri
    A conceptual framework for understanding the demands and dynamics of culture change in business.
  • How To Create A Positive Corporate Culture
    A learning experience with the aim of enlightening a company’s officers and employees on the powerful influence of culture in the execution of strategy.
  • How To Grow Winners in Indonesia in the 1990’s
    An article that describes an outlook and prescribes action priorities for businesses during the decade of 90’s.

1990

Proprietary technology product copyrighted:

  • Man Management Astra
    A leadership development program aimed at building a leadership culture at one of Indonesia’s largest business enterprises.

1995-1996

Proprietary technology product copyrighted:

  • Organizing for Business Excellence
    Paradigm for Aligning and Attuning Organizations, which helps CEO’s in planning, implementing and in evaluating their strategies, and facilitating development of their organizations in three time frames: the past, the present and the future.
  • Strategy Planning Implementation Evaluation System
    A body of concepts, tools and methods designed to guide managers through a multi-stage process of thinking through, executing, monitoring and evaluating their chosen business and function strategies based on the Organizing for Business Excellence paradigm.

Showcase client engaged:

  • TMG Manufacturing
    World’s largest semi-integrated manufacturer of Fuji brand cameras (2 million units per annum).

1997

Assisted in the capacity of Program Adviser to organize the First
ASEAN Business Summit in Jakarta, under the auspices of the
Indonesian Trade and Industry Board;

Showcase client engaged:

  • Bogasari Flour Mills
    The world’s largest flour milling operation, a division of the blue
    chip PT Indofood Sukses Makmur, tbk.

1998

Proprietary technology product copyrighted;

  • Enterprise Resource Engineering
    A conceptual framework that prescribes the basis for building a body of integrated IT software applications to assist officers and employees run any business based on the paradigm, Organizing for Business Excellence.

Showcase client engaged:

  • PT Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa, Tbk.
    A 16 million ton integrated cement industry leader.

1999-2000

Proprietary technology product copyrighted:

  • SPIES Executive Information System
    A conceptual framework that prescribes the approach and features of an information system designed to monitor the execution of strategy based on the paradigm, Organizing for Business Excellence.
  • Performance Quotient I & II
    Grand Strategy for Management Attention, a conceptual framework that prescribes the approach and features of an information system designed to monitor the execution of strategy based on the paradigm, Organizing for Business Excellence.
  • Dual Frame Organizing
    A conceptual framework that prescribes a new method or organizing the business enterprise that strives for strategic and operating excellence based upon the paradigm, Organizing for Business Excellence.

2001

Established PT AndrewTani Indonesia
(call name: AndrewTani & Co.) as part of a branding strategy;

Established Special Intentions Trainings & Publications Unit
(later PT Foresight Asia) and launched:

  • Indonesia Now & Beyond
    A coffee table book dedicated to reminding the world about the beautiful side of Indonesia, as an expression of the Firm’s corporate social responsibility, aiming as well to enhance the Firm’s image in the eyes of Indonesia’s political and intellectual elite.

Showcase client engaged:

  • Treasury Division of PT Bank BNI (Persero), Tbk. The country’s second largest state bank.

Regular Client engaged:

  • PT Citra Marga Nusaphala Persada.

2002

First international title published and translated:

  • Get Real: Empower the Manager Leader Within
    By McGraw-Hill Education; ranked 19th in MGH’s Top 50 Professional Titles.
  • Indonesian Translation in 2003
    By Gramedia Pustaka Utama, #1 National Best Seller for selling 3,000 copies in 9 weeks; now on 2nd printing.

Showcase client engaged:

  • Bogasari Flour Mills.

2004-2007

Singapore Head Office established

Additional clients engaged, such as:

  • Bank Indonesia, central bank of the Republic of Indonesia.
  • PT Indosat, Tbk.,the second largest telecommunications player in Indonesia.
  • PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Tbk., the largest national telecommunication state owned enterprise.
  • PT Krakatau Steel (PERSERO), the largest steel producer in Indonesia.
  • PT Bank Bumiputera, Tbk.
  • PT Paramitra Media Perkasa, the owner of Indonesia’s first direct response TV of innovative products.
  • Family Planning Agency of the Government of Republic of Indonesia (BKKBN), the family planning agency for Indonesia.
  • Department of National Education of the Government of Republic of Indonesia, the education authority in Indonesia.
  • BPMIGAS, government executive agency for the upstream oil & gas business activities of the Republic of Indonesia.
  • Muslimat NU, one of the largest women’s faith-based organizations in Indonesia.
  • Muhammadiyah, the largest non-profit social-religious organization in Indonesia.
  • PT Pertamina (Persero), the national oil company of Indonesia in their Upstream Directorate.
  • PT Pertamina EP, the second largest oil and gas producer in Indonesia.
  • PT Pertamina Geothermal Energi, Indonesia’s largest geothermal company.
  • PT Pertamina Hulu Energi, the oil & gas portfolio managers for overseas assets.
  • PT Pertagas, the gas trading business of Indonesia’s NOC.
  • PT Pertamina Drilling Services Indonesia, an oil drilling services company.
  • Exploration & Production Techonology Center, the oil and gas technology research & development arm of Indonesia’s NOC.
  • PT Japfa Comfeed, Tbk., one of the largest integrated food and animal protein producing companies in Indonesia.
  • Japfa International Division, with operations in Singapore, Vietnam, Myanmar, India and China.
  • PT BNI Securities, a subsidiary of the second largest bank in the Republic of Indonesia.
  • PT Columbindo Perdana – Columbia, largest consumer financing and consumer goods distributor in Indonesia.
  • PT Indo Tambangraya Megah, Tbk., a BANPU Group Company, Thailand based coal mining enterprise.