Building Robust Information Systems

Aligning Business Technology, Process and Decision Making

An unaligned company is at war with itself because it's internal functions collide more and collaborate less . The result is a pervasive cognitive black space, a lack of transparency that breeds delays, long cycle times, and an insidious organizational inefficiency.

Why Business-Alignment?

The Human Body Analogy

The Latin root of the word “corporation” is corpus, which means “body.” The body works like a corporation, and vice versa. Food intake, blood supply, the metabolism of oxygen, sensing the environment, neural activity, and cellular regeneration all have their corporate counterparts: raw materials, procurement, cash flow, working capital, market sensing, decision making, and growth.

And just as illness in any one biological function threatens the health of the entire body, the breakdown of any core functional process in a corporation threatens its overall economic health.But the brain cannot function capably without sufficient feedback from the individual organs and nerves.

Imagine what would happen if a person’s heart, operating independently of the resting brain, began beating 200 times a minute while he or she slept. That person would likely have a stroke or sustain serious damage to other parts of the vascular system that would shut the heart down.

Impediments to Effective Decision Making

The single biggest impediment to swift decision making is a functionally disconnected organization.

Among its many symptoms are:

• Data silos. Transactional data is dispersed and invisible, critical domains remain uninformed.
• Decision silos. Functional managers attempt to run the company in several directions at the same time.
• Cognitive silos. Managers in the organization lack cross-functional competencies and coordination.

Consider these questions:

• Is all the information relevant to a product available at the right time and to the right people?
• Is the movement of the product transparent both internally and externally ?
• Do the people who touch the product, either physically or informationally, understand the fundamental planning cycle, the product life cycle, the customer life cycle, and the order life cycle of that particular product?
• Are decisions clear and distinct from transactions?
• Are there clear audit trails-- cradle-to-grave, snout-to-tail

Building Robust Information Systems - Our Workshop

 

What you will learn and how your company will benefit

• Understand the process view of the organization
• Establish clear data requirements and decision criteria for each link
• Isolate and mitigate informational risks at each link
• Understand reasons and root causes for rupture along your value chain
• Improve teamwork and productivity across the company
• Eliminate internal black space.
• Create correlational literacy throughout your company
• Establish clear audit trails, function to function, process to process, end to end.
• Understand decision maps and align them with corporate operating strategy

Who should attend:

* Functional users in various departments
* Key functional managers
* Change agents in the company
* All IT personnel
* Project teams involved in selection/implementation of ERP, SCM, and CRM or any enterprise application software.

Our education can be delivered in multiple learning formats:

	Two 2.5 day bootcamps
	Five half-day sessions
	8 week classes @ 2.5 hours /class
	Webinars and other multi-media formats.

Our Guarantee

Within 10 weeks we will help you build a connected, agile information chain.We guarantee 100X your investment in our education.

Call our office to discuss how we can help you.