We help highly transactional businesses to automate, scale and speed decision-making
- Planning to upgrade or add an enterprise optimization system in pricing, supply chain or related areas?
- Retooling key back office components?
We have built, managed and been selected scores of times for complex,
cross-functional fulfillment and optimization solutions in large enterprises all over the world.
Having been seated on both sides of the table many times, we know the key questions to ask,
the important success criteria, the "gotchas", and the project structures
that can make or break a project on tight timelines.
Our key capabilities include:
- gathering project needs and building evaluation criteria
- assisting with business cases and the approval process
- coordinating with your IT leadership to incorporate applicable regulatory and governance elements
- managing or guiding the RFP process from blueprint approval to vendor selection
We'll also use our broad network also to gain additional advice (where needed and with your consent) to give you impartial advice with a work product you can use for future activities.
- Have an initiative that requires experienced leadership?
- Could you benefit from some additional product and solution management expertise?
- Have strategic projects that are missing key resources or facing execution problems?
- Need an independent perspective on some core decisions or challenges you face?
We've delivered hundreds of projects and implementations, many with 7 or 8 figure budgets.
Our team can help you with virtual CIO / CTO services to extend your productivity
and to help ensure your organization keeps its commitments.
Our team can help in a variety of ways, from mentorship to direct leadership and from key project management
to organization-level supervision. We've led teams from dozens to hundreds in size, build complex analytics and
decision optimization solutions, and re-tooled enterprise-class infrastructure to meet changing demands.
Whether taking the reins for a key project, helping to align vendors and team around large initiatives,
or helping you transform your organization, we can help you achieve your strategic goals.
We are full stack in data management, data science, analytics, cloud computing, IT, and software development,
operating from product and business case management through the entire delivery process as needed.
From the business case presentations and financial models to RFP management
and from enterprise architecture to acceptance testing, we can help you keep your commitments.
- Know you need to change things up but not sure where to start?
- Have a sense of what is wrong but not sure how to prioritize?
Our team has built and implemented back-office, fulfillment, analytics and optimization solutions
across a number of different industries. We'll work with you and your consulting partners to understand
the key elements of your strategy and map that into a thorough review of your current landscape.
We'll review technology, time and talent to assess not only what you can do with your current environment,
but also how other priorities and projects may impact a new initiative.
Working with your team, we can then propose several options for improvements,
extensions and replacements that align with your goals and priorities.
If you decide to take action, we can help you with program management and delivery too!
Planning an initiative and deciding whether to go outside for the solution?
Our team understands how the business priorities and current project portfolio can affect the success of a new key initiative.
Using our experience delivering literally scores of large-scale enterprise solutions in the real world,
we can build a portfolio of options, assess risk, recommend vendors, and work with your technologists to refine plans.
If you decide to buy, we can help manage an RFP process for you as well that ensures your stakeholders and interests are best represented.
If you decide to build, we can provide a range of services from project management to enterprise architecture and from data acquisition to data science.
- Is a key project blocked due to integration or data management issues?
- Is your technical staff unable to deliver because of other priorities and commitments?
- Do you have an initiative that is not moving along as planned because of data issues?
- Have a legacy system that isn't providing what you need?
- Are business partners demanding APIs or data access that your team can't deliver due to other factors?
We have deep expertise in
- data wrangling (ETL, data loading, cleansing)
- data streaming and structured exports
- API & middleware development and integration
- filtering, structuring, and modeling
For your project, we can develop detailed specifications and test plans, act as an advisor to your project team,
or deliver running interfaces to you in a bespoke fashion.
If you need APIs or middleware to enable business partners or to bridge a gap on a legacy system,
we can get your interface built in a reliable manner.
Depending on the needs and landscape, we can leverage industry tools and middleware solutions,
or we can build the interface directly in code.
This kind of work can usually proceed without blocking other project activities.
We can apply this expertise in business process automation work as well.
In many cases, one can speed or simplify day-to-day use of complex back-office and optimization systems
through process automation. We discuss this in more detail in the Business Process Automation topic.
- Do you feel as though managing your operational, analysis and optimization systems requires too much manual work?
- Is your staff having trouble completing key process steps or making decisions during peak periods?
- Are your colleagues the ability to review insights and make decisions while mobile?
- Have you or your strategic consulting partners identified potential profit leakage areas at key decision points?
We can help identify improvements at different levels of scale and complexity, ranging from simple workflow automation
to system re-architecture. Most enterprise back-office, analytics and optimization tools have APIs or machine interfaces to facilitate tighter integration.
These interfaces are often overlooked or de-scoped in implementation projects as teams deal with other problems.
We can help with what we call decision scaling, leveraging automation, interfaces and the capabilities of your existing systems.
We will work with your solution vendors and consulting partners to ensure the highest value areas are addressed.
- Are you just starting to explore how data science and machine learning systems can accelerate your business?
- Do you have a project that is under stress or not producing the anticipated results?
- Are you exploring how to integrate and improve the results from your existing expert systems?
- Have you looked at the potential to harness your client and customer interaction data to spot problems, trends and opportunities?
Our firm's resume includes significant innovations in optimization and analytical systems. We have built, integrated, and implemented a variety of solutions using industry-leading techniques and technologies. We can help you develop a comprehensive strategy for data science and decision optimization, working with your firm's strategic consulting partners and in-house team to align with business goals. We can identify quick wins, map potential benefits, and help get you started.
Our firm can help in other areas further downstream as well. Read about our Data Wrangling, Business Process Automation, and Data Science capabilities to learn more.