Management Consulting
We are a full service consultancy with experience in all aspects of implementing sustainable change and operations improvements, including organizational effectiveness interventions, process design and reengineering, strategy development, and systems implementation.
IT Transformation
Changes in the industry, especially the prevalence of out-sourcing and the advent of SAAS applications, has meant that internal IT departments have found that the nature of their work has changed drastically. Rather than being focused on developing and maintaining applications, they find themselves making strategic investment decisions and acting as intermediaries between their business partners and their outsourcing partners. Now, instead of just their technical expertise, IT employees need communication, problem-solving, and business skills so they can continue to add value. We offer a full transformation service to turn "IT order-takers" into value-adding business partners, including:
- Strategy development and alignment
- Skills and capability assessment
- Process design and reengineering
- Project prioritization and management
- Training and coaching
New Product Development and Launch Effectiveness
With continued cost pressures and increasingly competitive market places, it is more important than ever to maximize the investments in new products. Sometimes getting your product to market just a few weeks sooner, especially in the pharmaceutical and tech industries, can reap substantial returns. We have substantial experience in streamlining new product launch processes and improving the effectiveness of the front-end decision making process that chooses which products to pursue. We do this by:
- Implementing stage gates
- Improving early communications and involvement
- Redesigning and simplifying processes
- Streamlining approvals
- Implementing support systems
- Training and coaching
Skunkworks Implementation
Many companies have invested heavily in innovation initiatives and have trained employees in any number of innovative-thinking techniques. But what comes next? Setting up teams to process ideas on a continuing basis has usually not returned the anticipated value, and, hence, ideas do not systematically get turned into results. We can help you with the right way to set up innovation teams and avoid some of the common pitfalls like:
- Building to consensus
- Focusing on ideas and not results
- Prioritizing ideas as the method of selection
- Failing to narrow down focus areas
For more information about these areas, see the articles in The Business Realist.