Our consulting practice was developed by our expert methodologists in Integrated Business Planning. They have first-hand experience in various planning areas, and have participated in or managed transformation initiatives in leading companies either as consultants or on the client side.
Historically, we are a technology company, which allows us to always look at changes in planning through the prism of proven solutions or new technologies with great potential.
Our methodology is focused on the feasibility of transformation processes through change management and deep cooperation with the client team from the initial stage of the project.
This allows the team not only to successfully advise on business consulting, but also to be thought leaders in various areas of integrated planning.
Our practice includes three areas of consulting services: Methodological consulting at the IT solutions implementation projects, Business consulting services and Change Management.
We offer the most relevant solution depending on the level of maturity of business processes. We believe that incremental evolution in integrated planning as the most sustainable, as it minimizes the risk of "rollback" due to the potential of resistance to change within the organization.
As a rule, the optimal solution to the client's tasks lies at the intersection of best practices in integrated planning, the level of process maturity, the company's own understanding of what needs to be done regarding the specifics of the business, and insights from the projects executed.
* The exact scope of work is determined at the conclusion of the contract with the Customer, depending on the specific goals of the project
Our services have several formats of involvement – from the express diagnostics of a certain problem to the end-to-end consulting, for example, S&OP process reload across an entire company. The standard elements of the typical project are stated below, but their exact selection and scope of work inside each stage depends on the specific goals of the company and project.
Audit of the current processes condition
Trainings in S&OP
Design a structure for goals, description of the approaches and processes
Creation of transition roadmap
Support for the implementation of new processes
Debugging processes after implementation
Focus on sustainable transformations is a part of our methodology. In this concept, we include both targeted change management within the project and during trial operation, as well as methodological support during the process establishment (usually it takes about 6 months).
The basis of sustainable transformation is to understand the need for change at the management level and then deliver this idea to the whole company top down. The sponsor`s time is a scarce resource, which should and needs to be planned by the project team.
For a company that faces a need for integrated planning for the very first time, it may be premature to immediately implement advanced tools such as Machine Learning or rolling planning. The process changes should be logical (both internally and from the viewpoint of the company`s evolutionary processes) and integrated into the overall process landscape of the organization. This helps explain the goals and objectives of transformation to employees, secure support and acceptance of changes.
It is important to go through the cycle of acceptance jointly with the key employees involved into the planning process. This will reduce resistance to change and will convert internal business-experts into agents of change. Participation in the process design will make the team confident, that all important issues will be taken into account.
A consistent communication plan is essential and a range of channels should be used in order to reach out everyone. The learning strategy should contribute to the successful adaptation of changes.
During the “debugging” stage it is important to monitor the following indicators:
Discipline of employees in their transition to the new process / system
Difficulties connected to the adaptation of concrete project decisions by employees
KPIs progress in achieving transformation goals
Our purpose is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the planning process, propose methodologies and solutions that will help achieve high quality work, organic technology launch and business growth of our clients’ business.
