Joint efforts have been made and decided to name the company Goethals Consulting Corp, in remembrance of that extraordinary civil engineer that was George Washington Goethals, perhaps the first person who acted as a consultant in Panamanian land, and fundamental motor behind the construction of the Panama Canal in which we saw knowledge and tenacity, essential elements that can be applied to the consultancy services this company provides our clients
PHILOSOPHY: Perhaps one of the most alluded subjects through time is the one of freedom, but peculiarly nowadays it continues being an elusive reality that many people does not know its true meaning and reaches, this is why its essence has been lost. An important characteristic of our executive founders is the determined love for liberal principles, reason our company’s philosophy will always be oriented within this vision.
OUR VISION: “Adding value in a dynamic medium” our main motto is used as principle inside our company and also in our client relationships; in a globalize environment, enterprises who have enduring success are those who possess fundamental values and purposes, who remain unchanged in time while the their business strategies and practices are always adapting to a ever changing world.
Corporations can take into consideration the differences between procedures that should never change and which should not be open to change, consideration between what is sacred and what is not. This rare ability to handle both continuity and change requires a constant discipline and is closely related to the ability of developing an ideology.
Fundamental ideologies define the enduring character of an organization, for this reason we become leaders of change, or wave riders (as surfers familiar with Panamanian waves), that include a profound respect for the individual, a dedication to low cost quality and reliability, a compromise for communitarian responsibility and the idea that the company exists to make technical contributions for the advance and wellbeing of humanity. Leaders die, products become obsolete, new technologies arrive and management fashions come and go but the fundamental ideology of a great organization stays as a source of inspiration.
A fundamental ideology is the link between organizations as it grows, decentralizes, diversifies, expands globally and allows cultural diversity in the workplace. Goethals Consulting, a Panamanian company with global vision, supporting private businesses in the execution of these processes, which translates into more value for the company and more revenue for the shareholders. In the public sector, the implementation of these processes translates into more and better quality of life for its citizens.
SERVICES
GOETHALS CONSULTING MARKET
Our enterprise work on two levels for both for the public and private sectors: in the public sector our consultants had worked advising governments all over Latin-American, I several ministries and international organizations such as the World Bank, OAS, IDB among others.
For the private sector, they have advised enterprises all over Latin-American and Asia knowing different cultures and negotiation methods, evolving into a global mentality, a key asset in today’s world. The client enterprises are of medium and large size, with billing values similar to the media of OCDE countries.
GOETHALS CONSULTING STRENGTH
We are one enterprise with partners and associates who know what they are doing, have a coherent way of thinking and acting and practice the rules of corporate government inside our company. If something made our partners stand out is the public stance both in message and delivery build and kept unchanging through the years. This is important when we must deal with governments, and give us a special strength wish is independent criterion of the government leanings.
Our consultants can work in several languages, other than Spanish and English, like several Chinese languages, Indonesian among others.
PRACTICE AREAS
Public Sector
We specialize in the design and formulation of public policies, in areas such as the reform and modernization of the state.
-Advice on international commerce negotiations with international organizations and countries, studies on commercial regulations, investment and competitiveness.
-Deregulation of economic activities and debureaucratization of the public sector.
-Analysis of economic analysis of short and long term economic scenarios. Analysis of the evolution of the main variables inside the framework of the national economic policy, the short, medium and long term- global or field and the relationship with the countries of the region and the rest of the World.
-Analysis and development of projects related to tourisms, country-brand and the state participation.
-Design and operation of organizative structures and horizontal systems for public sector management.
-Studies and developments on the health subsystems –public and private- oriented towards their administration and management.
-Analysis and projects related to social security –health and prevention- in the levels of management, coverage, collection and resource management.
-Analysis and formulation and development of public policies for the development of the aeronautic sector.
Private Sector
We specialize on business processes and risk analysis.
-Integral assistance to enterprises, especially to family owned ones.
-Regional studies toward finding possibilities of economic development and investment opportunities.
-Formulating and improvement of processes and revenue enhancing programs to generate value and income for the share holders..
-Strategic services and operative marketing, development, economic profitability, with focus on tourisms, culture, leisure time, and nature oriented enterprises.
-Investment projects: Identification, sizing, localization, formulation, evaluation, development, financing, structuring and management, focused on real state.
-Studies on market opening especially on the APEC (Asia-Pacific) with our consultants competent on the languages and cultures of the region and their negotiation customs.
We have specialized consultants in Barcelona (in charge of Europe) and in Malaysia (in charge of APEC). These consultants are our direct employees no loose associates so the company has a immediate responsibility over them and the client must be sure of the quality control, standards, vision, values and supervision of Goethals Consulting Corp. in any place the consultant is located.
