Objective: Establish a sustainable support structure for ongoing, successful project delivery.

Client Profile: For organizations managing a complex project portfolio and looking to maximize project delivery success rates.

Approach: A well-coordinated Project Management Office (PMO) is essential when managing a complex portfolio of projects. An effective PMO can boost departmental efficiency and deliver a steady stream of cost-effective, high quality IT services.

We can help your organization establish and run a central PMO, or can restructure an existing PMO to deliver measurably greater value. Our experienced consultants work collaboratively to implement PMO methodologies and define organization-specific processes and interfaces that ensure a continual review of project priorities and resource allocation. The result is a sustainable environment for achieving superior project results.

We offer co-management of ongoing PMO operations on an interim basis in order to transfer knowledge and effectively empower internal resources.

 

Objective: Improve delivery management capabilities in order to increase project implementation success rates and system effectiveness.

Client Profile: For organizations deploying IT systems and looking to reduce implementation costs and timeframes through better delivery management.

Approach: Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies support on-time, on-budget, on-‘functional scope’ project delivery. A well-established SDLC will save an organization valuable time and improve return on investment.

Our software development experts work with proven methodologies, ranging from Waterfall to Agile, to manage application development projects. Our exclusive focus on financial services ensures the most effective SDLC implementation.

We can partner with your IT department to introduce SDLC controls and methodologies for enhancing internal project delivery, and establish appropriate interfaces to the PMO.

 

Objective: Improve overall product and service delivery in a tangible and sustainable way, while reducing associated costs and overhead.

Client Profile: For organizations seeking to optimize key processes related to existing or new product and service delivery.

Approach: Quality Management Systems (QMS) streamline core business processes and practices for product and service delivery, raising quality levels and increasing potential throughput.

Our business consultants work with proven QMS methodologies, including ISO9000, Six Sigma’s Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) and DMADV (Define – Measure – Analyze – Design – Verify) Methodologies, and the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). We can select and implement the right QMS for your organization, and draw on our expertise to help (re)design key operational processes within the system.

Objective: Reduce organizational overhead associated with (changing) regulatory demands and embed compliancy practices into product and service delivery lifecycles.

Client Profile: For organizations seeking more efficient and cost-effective ways to meet regulatory requirements.

Approach: Increasing regulatory requirements have resulted in the need for stricter workflow compliance and greater data and transaction automation. Shareholders and other stakeholders looking to reduce risk have driven a corresponding demand for more transparency.

We can help your organization identify ways to more efficiently and cost-effectively manage operational risk and meet regulatory and stakeholder requirements. Following an assessment of current processes, our consultants will deliver a recommendation for streamlining compliance efforts. We will work with you to implement new operational practices and systems, enhancing compliance in addition to overall effectiveness.

 

Objective: Provide clearer insight into business performance and operational direction.

Client Profile: For organizations wanting to gain more insight into operational performance in order to make better informed business decisions.

Approach: Organizations typically operate in complex environments where multiple people and systems are involved in completing a single transaction or process flow, making it difficult to manage, control and maintain transparency.

We are experienced in creating flexible and comprehensive reporting and control mechanisms that span underlying applications, people and processes. Our consultants can help your organization implement tools to access and view operational data essential for effective management and regulatory compliance. By taking a comprehensive approach to reporting and controls, we deliver deeper insight into current business performance and provide the basis for sound decision-making.

Objective: Drive tangible and measurable performance by establishing organization-specific business indicators.

Client Profile: For organizations looking to enhance decision-making by using up-to-the-minute operational data.

Approach: We work with our clients to transform unprocessed data into tangible, measurable and actionable information. We provide the insight and sector expertise necessary to benchmark and measure data against industry and corporate norms.

 

Objective: Eliminate operational, procedural and technical vulnerabilities open to malicious exploitation.

Client Profile: For organizations looking to identify and reduce potential weak points in any of their trade lifecycles.

Approach: Financial services organizations can significantly minimize operational vulnerability to malicious acts by identifying and eliminating potential areas of risk in business, technology and process workflows.

We go beyond basic audits to rapidly assess existing operational flow and procedures in order to ensure that corporate practices within the trade lifecycle adhere to internal and transparent standards. We document manual manipulations and interventions that may leave data and processes open to high risk exploits, and identify vulnerabilities that could lead to malicious attacks.

We partner with our clients to define the trade lifecycle workflows ideal ‘end state’ and develop a roadmap for bringing processes to safe and controlled standards. We offer related solutions for: