The Art and Science of Solving Complex Business Problems

Companies have long relied on external expertise to build strategies, manage change, and improve performance. In the traditional professional services model, clients pay extraordinary fees for far-reaching projects that often take too long, ultimately failing to deliver meaningful results.

The digital industrial revolution changes everything. Information is abundant. Data is cheap. Technology costs are plummeting. Management practice has fully adapted to the Internet age. Increasingly, enterprise success is about the digital strength of business models and management's ability to make quick decisions in the face of changing market conditions, including all-out industry disruption.

The pandemic has only amplified the urgent need for digital transformation. More than ever before, market uncertainty is paralyzing organizations, leaving them vulnerable to threats from much more digital companies. The shift to digital must be surgical and swift.

In this new era, smart business leaders recognize the criticality of advanced analytic tools and platforms. But they also recognize that solving today’s complex business problems also require exceptional creativity and collaboration.

BLAST was created as a platform to help organizations combine art and science to break their barriers to strategic success. All our solutions are human-led by highly experienced advisors. Our methodologies are structured to motivate and sustain the highest level of collaboration and productivity across diverse teams.

We believe in starting small. Using the power of visualization to capture and express business problems. We use simple, yet powerful analytics to clarify the value and shape of problems and solutions. Making solutions real and infinitely actionable, we design experience-based workflows at the atomic level. We take pride in knowing when our time has come and gone. We ensure our clients always maintain control.

Clients, not companies.

Our clients are business leaders, creators, believers and activists for change. They're the ones carrying all the accountability and risk of their companies. They're the ones leading and managing their companies - not us. We know our place. We're there to enable our client's success. We serve our clients fast. We equip them with simple, powerful solutions and expert support they need to lead in extraordinary times.

Blast Founder, CEO

Michael Cant is the Founder and CEO of BLAST Group Inc.

Michael has spent his 30 year career grinding it out in strategy, marketing, sales and large-scale change programs with companies from start-ups through to multi-billion dollar global corporations.

He was the lead architect of one of the first Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) plays in Europe. He also designed technology-driven strategies, marketing and sales programs for large clients in technology-driven sectors, from the Internet boom through to the current digital industrial revolution.

As head of Global Marketing for CGI Group, Canada's largest IT company ($20B+ market cap), Michael transformed CGI's corporate marketing function into an industry-vertical marketing machine. A strong advocate of globalization, Michael led the strategy and architecture of CGI's global delivery model and opened the company's first global intelligence centre in Bangaluru, India. Michael has also architected strategies and management models for several highly successful global partnerships involving companies such as AT&T, BT, IBM, Orange and BCE, dramatically cutting revenue volatility and funnel risk while driving double-digit growth. 

With a unique blend of creative energy, advanced data analytics, and deep experience in both business and technology, Michael has been instrumental in the successful execution of several large M&A transactions, outsourcing deals and transformation programs, each valued in excess of $1 billion. Michael prides himself on seeing the world sideways, and advocating for changes that produce giant leaps in shareholder value, customer productivity and management effectiveness.  He loves working with smart, frank, funny people who are deeply committed to maintaining the human dimension of business as technology continues its rapid advance in our world.

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