Regulations, laws, policies and often market forces require government and private sector organizations to engage in strategic planning. Their goal is to formulate a strategic plan to guide their business in alignment with their objectives while taking into account their needs and the operating environment. While most strategic planning efforts do produce a strategic plan, the majority of these documents fail to be properly implemented often due to poor internal communication of the business benefits and inadequate change management execution.
At EMERION we believe the real value of strategic planning is in the process, not only the documented plan. We see strategic planning as an evolutionary process that should be part of an on-going management life cycle. Whether your business is working like a well-oiled machine or overall performance is a question mark, periodically all organizations need to step back and re-assess the big picture.
An essential strategic planning tool, EMERION's Business Consulting service is there to support your business optimization efforts. Our Business Consulting services are all about helping you detail your organizational objectives and goals. We scope/define initiatives, plan your projects, recommend monitoring mechanisms, and when required, we develop and implement organizational change management programs.
We use proven methods and apply recognized project planning and management techniques. We take a comprehensive approach to risk management thereby ensuring the successful transformation of your business is aligned with your strategic objectives. And most importantly, with the strategic use of our Business Consulting services you can avoid wasting resources on short-term tactical fire fighting and start making investments that pay dividends.
Our Business Consulting services include:
- Enterprise business architecture and business transformation: to increase functional effectiveness by mapping (e.g., “as-is” and “to-be”) and modeling the business to the organization's business vision and strategic goals
- Business process mapping and re-engineering: to provide you with a better understanding of your business operations and to identify opportunities for improvement
- Project planning and management: to ensure projects are delivered on-time and within budget
- Portfolio management: to provide a structured and rigorous approach for project evaluation and selection
- Business case development: to measure and justify future IM/IT investment
- IT function management: to design and implement System Development Life-Cycle (SDLC) and IT Service Management (ITSM) methodologies and best practices
- Change management: to realize the full benefits of your investment by instilling organizational change
Based on our years of experience, we've found that business managers benefit most when the business consulting efforts are undertaken early in the strategic planning process and when the monitoring and feedback mechanisms are timely and tied to actionable outcomes.
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