Transformational Change
Today's competitive environment is increasing the demand for more innovation and higher value as organizations look to transform their current business processes. To survive and surpass their competition, organizations are looking for new business models that align to the evolving marketplace while improving productivity, efficiency, market share, and profitability.
All business transformation efforts require changes in responsibilities across job roles and organizational units. Edgewater understands today's changing trends and offers consulting services to organizations to satisfy the demand of innovation and the necessity for higher value from their organization.
We offer a wide spectrum of business advisory services that help customers in:
- Achieving specific business goals
- Achieving operational excellence
- Improving intimacy with their customers
- Reducing IT intensity (IT Spend to Revenue ratio)
Problems and Their Symptoms
+ New technologies fail to achieve predicted return on investment because the business is still using old business processes, because processes were not redesigned, and the process change was not effectively managed
+ Customers hear inconsistent messages, and are given “the runaround” when interacting with different departments in a business because roles and responsibilities have been left undefined
+ Headcounts by department are above expected levels against published benchmarks because too little effort was expended on organization design
+ An acquisition fails to achieve predicted financial goals because due diligence was inadequate or the integration was poorly planned and executed
+ Major business initiatives are often behind schedule or over budget because of poor program management practices
Solutions
Business Process
New business strategies and newly introduced technologies impose requirements on business processes. Edgewater is adept at optimizing processes, defining metrics for measuring process improvement, and leading organizations through business process change.
Despite the high-profile Merger and Acquisition (M&A) failures, senior executives continue to see M&A ventures as vehicles for strategic growth.
Program / Project Management
We take a business-centric approach and include operational readiness as well as technology readiness work streams in all our project plans.