Business strategy consulting services

Improving financial and operational performance

This economic environment is unlike anything in the past. There has been unprecedented constraints on access to credit and capital; unwinding of over-leverage, falling demand, increased price sensitivityas consumers and enterprises cut back, and disruptions in supply chains, partner and customer arrangements. Today’s business environment shows signs of improvement, but there is much uncertainty with customer demand, business expansion and consumer and commercial credit. Traditional responses no longer suffice in the current economic environment – success requires a willingness and discipline to act with speed to exploit short-term opportunities and long-term sustainability. To achieve these goals, you need a pragmatic and robust approach to revenue optimization and cost reduction.

Is your operating model aligned to successfully execute your company’s long-term strategy? Do you need to manage and integrate your organization and processes on a more regional or global basis? Are you able to directly and rapidly implement changes to operational processes? IBM’s assessments or accelerators can make recommendations about organization and process changes that increase effectiveness, reduce costs and potentially increase revenue to help create significant value across the enterprise.

• Strategic Profit Improvement (425KB)

  Meet financial objectives and find improvements in cost reduction, revenue growth and capital optimization. The Strategic profit improvement assessment makes recommendations about organization and process changes that increase effectiveness, reduce costs and potentially increase revenue to help create significant value across the enterprise.

• Enterprise Innovation Strategy Accelerator (521KB)

  Understand innovation capabilities, structures, processes, assets, tools, methods and an innovation archetype. This accelerator provides a rapid high level assessment and road map to help you understand innovation capabilities, and evaluate and refine an innovation agenda to align with your defined business strategy.

• Cloud-enabled Business Model Accelerator (462KB)

  Prioritize business model innovation opportunities around changing the value chain, creating new revenue streams, changing your product mix, or altering the way a business operates across its extended enterprise. This strategy initiative focuses on identifying cloud-enabled business model innovation opportunities and delivering a road map through interviews and workshop with key stakeholders.

• Target Operating Model Accelerator (456KB)

  Analyze all the elements within your operations - process, customer experience, sourcing, organization, metrics, skills, technology, and assets, as well as culture to improve your company’s overall business performance. This accelerator provides a framework to achieve operational innovation by linking a company’s business strategy to all of its operating elements in a manner which is rationalized, aligned and unified.

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