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Development of an Organizational Plan to Incorporate Internet Functionality into Business Processes
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eBusiness Transformation Success is Critical to an Organization's Future!
The Automotive Industry was an early adopter of b2b initiatives that were directed at forcing suppliers to push inventory costs higher up in the manufacturing model. That goal helps to eliminate waste in the form of product that will never reach an end-user. JIT (Just In Time) inventory control is hardly new. However, its implementation used to require highly controlled sharing of secrets among independant and potentially competing organizations, long-term legal contracts, a dedicated physical data exchange network, unique external connections to back-office systems, and elaborate data exchange protocol gateways. Not only was this difficult to get organizations to agree to; it was also difficult or impossible to implement, time-consuming, and expensive. The value was often lost in the cost. It also tended to reduce market flexibility that is necessary to remain competitive over long periods of time. These are no longer issues.
The modern Internet has become a homogeneous and ubiquitous connection between organizations and people. The competition among businesses has become centered around reduction of waste and the ability to re-adjust to new market conditions. As competition increases the overall reliance upon the principles of JIT functionality the level of play escalates further and further. This model, long noted in manufacturing supply-chains, is the underlying principle in the formation of "Value Chains." Value Chains are not restricted to manufacturing environments. Instead, their most effective utilization is in its early stages in the Service Industry environment where it will not reduce the waste of materials but instead the waste of human effort and time. When the Value Chain incorporates end-users, government bodies, community groups, and utility vendors; its power to enhance productivity will be exponential. Notice that the last statement began with the word "when" and not "if." The economic pull is so great that any entity that has not began to adopt the basic principles of inter-organizational connectivity, such as found in a Value Chain, may have already sealed its fate.
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eBusiness Strategy Consulting
The Base Package will provide your company with a well organized document that can help you to shape your company's future. This document will be valuable in discussions with your banker, your vendors, your advertising agency, your investors, and especially your staff. The strategy begins to evolve as soon as it meets paper for others to see.
Overview of the eBusiness Strategy Development Process
- Meet with Management Team to Determine Long-Term Goals
- Study Stakeholder Needs in Multiple Time-Frames
- Assess Stakeholder Acceptance Criteria over Multiple Time-Frames
- Compare Implementation Costs with Expected Benefits
- Package Results and Recommendations for Top Management Review
- Implement Approved Plan; Monitor Project Issues & Stakeholder Approval
- Periodically Re-Assess Goals, Strategy, Value, & Implementation Concerns
GeBX will provide the following services within the standard scope of an eBusiness Strategy Consulting Engagement:
- Internal interviews and consulting with Client's Principals to identify key issues.
- Internal interviews and consulting to customize an information gathering process with client's customers.
- Creation of customized client-customer needs analysis documentation.
- Implementation of customer needs analysis program.
- Creation of customized client-competitive analysis documentation
- Implementation of Competitive Analysis Program.
- Creation of Executive Review Document
- Customer Needs Analysis
- Competitive Analysis
- Current eBusiness Programs
- eBusiness Programs currently under development
- Recommended Actions
- Formal presentation of analysis results to Client principals, discussion, consulting, and formulation of Future Strategy for eBusiness Initiatives.
- Documentation of Future Strategy for eBusiness initiatives.
- 1 Year Strategy
- 3 Year Strategy
- Presentation and final review of completed eBusiness Strategy Consulting deliverable to Client principals.
The Base Package includes four (4) hours of direct consulting with Client's staff, three (3) hours of research & development, and a documentation package which includes revised versions of the Executive Review and the Future Strategy.
Please call us at (847) 289-1100 or send an estimate request to IT Pro.
(Note: This service was previously only available to large entities, willing to pay thousands of dollars per hour, during the late 1990s. Our pricing is, in contrast, very reasonable, and very justifiable to any organization aspiring to be in operation more than a couple more years.)
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