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To grow your business is to know your business….

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Joseph Cecil Consulting services provide advice on creating competitive advantage by leveraging IT to transform business operations. We specialise in identifying the strengths and weaknesses in your business, identifying areas that need improvement, proposing effective and sustainable solutions by developing robust plans for success, and supporting change implementation and transformation.

Our strategy is to deliver accurate, metrics-based analysis. We work with all your management and staff to understand and document how they do the as-is processes, allowing us to provide an independent, external perspective on where improvements could be made.

 

Business Analysis Consulting Services

Broken Window Analysis

Broken windows are caused by pain points. A pain point is any problem that impedes growth and smooth running of the day-to-day business operations. In most cases, clients already know their pain points but cannot fully assess the impact of that point and cannot fully appreciate the impact on their business and income. It is a known fact that even the smallest looking problems can be big over time, thereby impeding productivity and compromising your bottom line.

At Joseph Cecil Consulting, our consultants will review the way your company works from end to end. They will interview your key stakeholders to learn about the challenges you face now and are likely to face in the future.

We will identify your broken windows and their root causes, developing sustainable solutions that will support your business and promote future growth.

Our solutions may be disruptive, requiring changes to your existing ways of working. But whatever we recommend - be it a technology solution or a change in procedure - we know that behind every problem is an opportunity and we’ll work with you to find and act on yours, developing solutions based on your suggestions and our knowledge.

 

Data Quality Assessment

Routing data management and quality analysis is key to a successful record keeping. If data is left unmanaged, it can cause a lot of confusion within an organisation. Here at Joseph Cecil Consulting, we aim to mitigate those problems by offering an objective view of the issues affecting your business, by identifying key markers, capturing the relevant data and reporting that data so that it is readable and understandable.

We’ll sit down with your key stakeholders to analyse and fully understand your current practises to answer three questions:

• What is going wrong?

• Why is it going wrong?

• How does it go wrong?

We will analyse data extracts, scrutinise the processes behind it, make sure your data is being properly filtered for relevance, accuracy and significance, and if needed we will either recommend a new data management strategy or come up with a bespoke solution in line with your organisation’s needs.

It may be necessary to look at other business process improvements, training and monitoring - or a simple technical fix may do the job - and we’ll help communicate the changes to all your users, so that your people know what you are aiming to achieve and will support it.

Data has become the most expensive commodity in the world today, Information is power and with the right data set, a business can improve her margins, smoothen the BAU process, increase staff happiness index and ensure customer satisfaction.

 

As Is and To Be Analysis 

Growth is inevitable, and that saying also applies to the business world. To grow, a business must review the current business processes to get a full picture of what the process is today (as-is) to scope out and appreciate where the future is headed (to-be).

We will conduct a review of your existing processes, working with you to understand the technology utilised, the people involved, your business and organisational structure and how it operates now. We will then document our findings which will be the backbone to which improvements and enhancements can be made

We are then able to begin the more detailed work of establishing your key business objectives and expectations, as well as the scope of your requirements. At the same time, we’ll make sure your objectives are realistic and workable, precisely targeted and clearly communicated, with the full support of your key stakeholders.

Strategic business analysis is the key to developing a clear and workable plan for bridging the gap - moving from your current business model to your target business model.

 

Business and IT Strategy Alignment

We promote competitive advantage and client optimisation by offering advice on leveraging IT to transform business operations. We align business and IT to provide:

• A wholesome analysis of an organisation, business-IT strategy, operations and governance

• Portfolio management

• Cost-benefit analysis

• Clear short and long-term development and improvement roadmaps, from current to desired state no matter how small the change is

 

Requirements and User Story Definition

User stories provide a snapshot of a requirement which a user must complete - whether that person is an administrator or a customer - and these stories are revisited regularly, with a view to constant incremental improvement.

Stories traditionally take the form of index cards - or perhaps Post-It notes - that can be seen by team members always, inviting constant revision and scrutiny, to the satisfaction of your stakeholders and execs and the achievement of your business goals. In larger businesses, it’s normally best to use a digital tool to hold stories.

Joseph Cecil Consulting can help you explore the value of user stories and requirements - and support you as you design them in the drive towards business improvements.

 

Technology Cost Optimisation

Efficient cost management enables you to make informed decisions on where to reduce costs without compromising business improvements. We offer advice by using various tools and resource optimisation techniques to effectively cut costs with little disruption to change and growth.