Business Consulting Team Overview - PDF

For 16 years CD Group Inc. has been providing high impact Oracle ERP (JDE and EBS) solutions and services. Our efforts have been focused on addressing our customer’s whole business requirements and not just those contained within their ERP software.

Our business consulting team uses management consulting techniques to enhance the results that can not be achieved by software alone. We use listening, appropriate methodologies, and experience to deliver affordable, incremental ERP project Success.

Setting the Context for Success     Common Misconceptions Business need for change can be solved by software alone Software will drive process change by itself Just implementing new software will drive ROI Defined requirements are optional for ERP success

CD Group's Change Management Offering

• Use John Kotter’s Leading Change eight step approach for successful change.
  1. Establish a sense of urgency
  2. Create a coalition
  3. Develop a clear vision
  4. Share the vision
  5. Empower people to clear obstacles
  6. Secure short-term wins
  7. Consolidate and keep moving
  8. Anchor the change
      
• Assess the magnitude of change needed and your organization’s readiness for change.
• Train your team on how to change.
• Develop a step-by-step plan for the change.

CD Group's Process Change Offering

• Pinpoint the key processes requiring change.
• Determine how and why these processes function as they do today.
• Leverage Oracle know-how to design a new process that will better match your strategy and performance requirements.
• Use a mobilizing approach to guide your staff through changing the process.
  • Build an As-Is Process Map with primary process steps, documents, time, transaction volumes, resources consumed, strengths, weaknesses, examples, and comments.
  • Create a To-Be Process Map based on your reality, your requirements, and Oracle know-how.

CD Group's Return On Investment (ROI) Offering

• Provide a framework for performing an analysis of the current financial results.
  • Analysis of 5 year trends and opportunities using the DuPont Model.
     
• Use a structured approach for developing a business case based on your company’s financials and on a tailored set of activities:
  • Interviews, top down benefit identification, mapping of benefits from process change work, input form financial decomposition analysis, cross validation of benefits with financial staff and P&L Owners.
     
• Select a ROI calculation applicable for the business. (i.e. ROA, EVA, ROCA, ROC, etc.)
• Provide a framework for developing financial baselines for ROI tracking.

CD Group's Requirements Gathering Offering

• Use an approach for requirements gathering that develops mutual understanding and ownership.
  • Emphasizes speed and thoroughness.
  • Draws your staff into the process.
  • Focuses on both current and future requirements.
  • Promotes thinking in business terms.
     
• Rapid facilitation of requirements prioritization with your staff based on criteria you approve.
• Framing of the requirements in a manner that is logical and easy for software vendors to understand and to act upon.

With a 1 hour conference call, we can quickly discuss your specific needs and the appropriateness of our Business Consulting Offerings.
 

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