Connected Service

Do you know your profitability by product andcustomer? Are  you able to  accurately allocate the  cost of your shared services across each ofyour business units? 
Information architecture presumes to serve the needs and address the challenges of business. We recognise that conventional wisdom speaks of the need for a cohesive strategy to develop the information capabilities of the organisation such that business information is available as-, when- and in the mode required by the business.
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Kehl Petersen

Practice Lead, Innovation and Change

The Connected Service Assessment is a leading analysis methodology and management decision support tool that represents and measures organizational services (internal processes and workflows as well as external services), understands their alignment and contribution to organizational strategy and helps to identify an appropriate strategy for each service in order to enhance the overall effectiveness of the organisation.
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Steve Hart

Practice Lead, Engineering Services

With a diverse and proven record of delivering professional IT services and solutions for over 25 years, Steve is one of those rare individuals who is equally effective and highly regarded in a number of senior roles including Architect (technical, solution, enterprise),
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Mary Jane Devine

Practice Lead, Shared Services Strategy

Mary Jane has experience with identifying opportunities for organizations to either externalize their non-strategic services, achieve cost recovery from services where they’ve achieved execution excellence or create a business model for a shared service across an organi
I recently read this article posted by Abbey Carpenter, describing the need for a specific set of characteristics in leadership in order to make a process improvement exercise viable and successful.Ms. Carpenter describes a number of process improvement methodologies, including Six Sigma and TQM, but I think the resounding message is that any proc...
Regardless of when and how the current economic “contraction” reverses itself, I think we can agree that the face of business as we know it is going to change… at least I’m hoping it does. I remember in the late 90’s, when I was an analyst for a venture capital firm, the number of “pimply-faced" self-styled entrepreneurs that woul...
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Rick Ikebuchi

Senior Consultant

Rick’s education and training is in industrial engineering, but he is also a certified facilitator in change process management.
As one of the world's largest providers of third-party and logistics (3PL) services our client wished to be able to more fully integrate and align with the strategic vision and objectives of it's clientèle. After a brief assessment our recommendation was to pursue an integrated service strategy with the client in order to reduce transaction costs, improve service outcomes and to increase the overall volume of business with their customer base.

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Avantage is a research and consulting firm focused on "connecting business". Our area of practice includes process and service integration, application integration, data integration, supply-chain integration and even workflow automation.

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