The 2013 Seven Small Jewels: Improving Enterprises

In consulting, sometimes a firm’s name has no rhyme or reason. Or its significance is completely unknown. For Improving Enterprises, nothing could be further from the truth: The name says it all.

Joe Kornik | April 04, 2013

Improving Enterprise - Curtis Hite In consulting, sometimes a firm's name has no rhyme or reason. Or its significance is completely unknown. For Improving Enterprises, nothing could be further from the truth: The name says it all.

Improving Enterprises is the result of the 2007 merger of Improving Enterprises LLC and Blue Ocean Group, which was established a year earlier by Curtis Hite, Barry Rogers, and Ric DeAnda as a high-end technology services firm with a focus on consulting and project outsourcing. Today, Hite serves as CEO and Chairman of Improving Enterprises, which employs an "enterprise strategy of finding like-minded companies and then helping those companies grow," Hite says.

And grow. And grow. Since the firm launched, it has achieved 30 percent annual growth. Last year was no different and in 2013 Hite is forecasting another 33 percent increase. "We started right at the downturn and it changed our approach but was beneficial in the long run," Hite says. "Starting in a very difficult time could've been a disaster, but we've had a very senior model from the beginning. This was fortunate because at that time clients were only willing to spend on senior-level talent."

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