Overview:
Advanced Innovation Managers believes that any organization that can identify and implement their Competitive Advantage, they will realize less competition and have a much more efficient and profitable organization. Most Organizations today already have the resources and infrastructure necessary to compete effectively, but they are not being utilized in the most efficient and profitable manner. Too many organizations try to follow the "FAD" of the month or year to be profitable. This results in spending money for resources and infrastructure, which are often under utilized as the organization is not structured to realize the maximum benefit of the FAD.
We work in collaboration with our clients, utilizing their employees and resources in most cases, with the intent of ensuring that the appropriate knowledge and skills are transferred to them so that they are better equipped to continue to operate and evolve the solutions that implemented during our engagement in their projects. Our engagements are based on the clients business goals and objectives, which we will work to realizing specific goals and object to enable them to achieve their desired business objectives.
History has shown that most improvements for an organization require some investment in people, systems and infrastructure. This does not mean that they must go out and hire a lot of new people, or systems. Most organizations are not utilizing the entire capability or capacity of their existing resources, and infrastructure. So we can often work with them to redeploy or repurpose their existing resources.
By using this process we leave our clients in a much better position to continue the improvements and evolve them as the situations evolve over time.
Our Philosophy:
We believe in only taking engagements that we can improve our clients position. This is accomplished by adding value through their interactions with us. If we can not improve the clients position, than we will not take on the engagement.
Take a look at our engagement process located to the left side of this page. As you roll your mouse over the activities, you will understand our focus of ensuring that we are adding value to our clients.
We have found that if we utilize the existing talents and resources of their organization enhancing their ability to increase their customer's satisfaction levels while helping them attain their business goals and objectives by directing talents and resources towards their customers, not staying focused on internal issues that do not improve their customers benefits.
This process leaves them in a much better competitive position, allowing them to develop that competitive advantage which will make them less dependent on the current and/or future economic conditions.
What We Do:
A consultant is just like a Doctor. You go to a medical doctor to have a check up, he preforms some diagnostic tests to determine what issues you have that need to be treated and prioritizes that list to ensure that most important things are handled first.
A good consultant does not approach an organization with a "Solution" already selected. If they do, then they are trying to maximize their profitability, not yours. They have a solution and they are looking for the problem they can solve.
Like a doctor, we will meet with you to determine what the real issues are that need to be addressed. Often the symptoms are seen, not the root cause, so resources are wasted running down issues that will not help improve your position. We will help you identify these opportunities using diagnostic techniques, before we will talk about creating a project.
Creating a Competitive Advantage
We will help organizations discover and develop their competitive advantage, so that they can become less dependent on the economic conditions and deliver exceptional value to their customers, at a fair price with the agility to meet your customers within your market. To help you here are some of the typical areas in which we can assist you:- Strategic Planning
- We work with you and your team to take your goals and objectives to create Strategic, Tactical, Implementation and Operational plans to improve your customer's satisfaction to increase your value to them. This allows you to develop and leverage your competitive advantage to achieve your desired result. We will leave your organization capable of sustaining and improving your efficiency and profitability.
- Organizational Design
- We will work with your team to identify the best organizational design to satisfy your customer commitments and achieve your business goals. This design will take into account the existing organization,to include current talents, resources and systems while together we create the goals and vision of the end state organization. A road mapis developed with specific time lines for achieving this end state vision.
- Enterprise Architecture
- We will work with your teams to baseline and identify your current enterprise architecture, then a gap analysis will be conducted to see where the architecture does not meet the business goals and objectives. A target enterprise architecture can then be created. This will be compared with the existing architecture and roadmaps can be created to ensure that it can migrated to support the organizations business objectives and goals.
- Innovation
- We will work with your team to identify areas that can improved by using innovative ideas and techniques.
- Change Management
- We will work with your team to ensure that there is a change management process and culture established within the organization. In addition we help you educate the employees on the importance of embracing change as a competitive advantage that will allow an organization to become a premier provider of services and goods. Thie will help the organization deal with the evolving business scenarios that companies face.
- System Design
- We will work with your team to ensure that all the requirements are captured before any systems/software purchases are conducted. This ensures that all additioal investments in systems/software are carefully considered siince the requirements will be known before any money is spent. This improves your overall Total Cost of Ownership (TOC) by ensuring that you have gotten the needed capabilities and are prepared to utilize the solutions.
Access to Consultants on a Regular Basis
We also want to ensure that you remain successful and your organization can evolve to the everchanging global business environment. So we offer our customers the abitlity to hire our expertise on an as needed and on demand to meet these changing environments. Some of the services offered in this area are:
- Coaching/Mentoring
- We will coach/mentor individuals selected based on the criteria that we established for specified periods of time to help transfer skills and allow individuals an opportunity to build their skills with and adequate support system.
- Retainers
- This allows individuals indentified to have the ability to call and ask questions with quick response time for a specified period of time.