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PROFIT FROM TECHNOLOGY

Go Beyond IT Excellence -

Build Profit and Stockholder Value
 

These are tough times. Your company must sustain itself and remain competitive to survive the current economy. More important, you must be prepared for opportunities that arise when economic conditions improve.

Business Technology is a major force in business today. Coupled with streamlined business processes, a trained workforce, and a culture of service to the customer, business technology that's focused on mission and aligned with company goals can be the deciding factor in your survival, your growth, even your exit strategy.

Our consulting practice focuses on a number of areas that help you apply or manage business technology to build profit and value. All of our work integrates the processes and the people involved, and we're vendor neutral, so we place your needs first.

Business Alignment   Assure that your IT organization invests only in work that's aligned with the company's strategy, goals, processes, and operations. Our approach involves all stakeholders to build the right strategy, execution plan, governance (steering) model, and measurement.

Profit and Value Enhancement   Redesign your business processes so they're most efficient and responsive. Support them with the right applications. Involve and train the user community. What better recipe is there for making your firm run like a well-oiled machine? Relationship management (CRM) processes bring revenue and therefore rank high in our view.

Exit Planning, Mergers, and Acquisitions   Enhance the value of your business by having clean data, effective information security, a clear sales pipeline, clear inventory records, a rich body of knowledge about your customers, and applications-supported processes that run without the constant intervention of the head of the company. We help you build value before the sale, and after merger or acquisition, we guide you to successful integration of the merged companies' processes and data.

Operational Excellence   Make your IT organization highly effective in its ability to deliver and visionary in its ability to seek innovative approaches to business problems. We'll work with you to improve operations, increase satisfaction with service, improve vendor management, plan for the future, ensure compliance, cultivate the right skill sets, and build a culture of service and partnership with the business.

Especially in tight economic times, technology can improve your performance and survivability. We invite you to see how our consulting, interim CIO service, and coaching and mentoring programs can help you profit from technology.
 

News

Society of Actuaries Publishes Lipka's ROI Article

Thursday, November 20, 2008
The Society of Actuaries published Steve Lipka's article "Why IT ROI Needs to Be Rethought" in its November 2008 issue of The Independent Consultant. Read More

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Marketing, Green IT, and Critical Thinking

Posted by Steve Lipka on 06/17/09
Lax as we've been in posting, we'll make up for it this month with three topics. What's the theme? Relationship management (not necessarily IT related), green IT, and an ad that makes you wonder.

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