Monday, August 1, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
IT Consulting - Part 1
You can check the latest info at - http://www.atkearney.com/index.php/Our-expertise/strategic-it-our-capabilities.html
Top-line growth
Information technology is recognized as a key driver for revenue growth. The development of new market segments, new products / services, and new customers can be accelerated through IT. In many cases, IT is the innovation - as with digital products, digital features, and digital services. A.T. Kearney works with clients around the world to develop IT strategies and implement innovative IT approaches to drive growth.
Customer value
One way to enhance revenue is through IT-enabled, long term customer satisfaction. Improvements involve sales, marketing, and service functions. Our capabilities include, for example, planning and implementing intelligent customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, and corporate business intelligence systems.New product development & engineering processes
IT has the potential to facilitate new product development and engineering by enabling product life-cycle processes - from idea generation, product design, and business analysis, through detailed engineering, market introduction, and growth-mature and decline stages. In particular, we work with clients to tailor processes and tools that stimulate and support idea generation and selection, and enable collaboration across functional and geographic boundaries.Product and service innovation
IT is often a growth driver through innovative solutions that include a product component or purely digital products/services. One of our clients enhanced their in-car IT solutions as a market differentiator. A mobile telecommunications company added innovative value-added services. We work with clients on IT innovation during market analysis, product design, testing, and launch.Business process efficiency
IT is the critical enabler facilitating the next wave of business transformation. Beyond simple automation, the strategic application of IT to core business processes, such as supply chain, can create new capabilities and breakthrough competitive advantage. A.T. Kearney's capabilities blend our technical and functional expertise. We have a long history of streamlining business processes, especially across organizational silos. IT is integral to sustaining these improvements.
Supply chain transformation
In our world of global supply chains, a company's ability to integrate and control their entire chain, including suppliers and partners, has never been more important - for competitive advantage and to manage risks of interruptions. We help clients optimize all the components: transportation, warehousing, manufacturing, and operations processes.Back office / G&A transformation
IT is integral to effective back-office or administrative processes, such as those that enable finance, HR, legal, and comprehensive ERP systems. Our clients realize the business value of these transformations when, for example, a cross-country implementation of a finance system results in a common chart of accounts, faster close of books, etc.Procurement transformation
Efficient IT support for procurement processes add to bottom-line savings, including information gathering, supplier contacting and evaluation, negotiation, selection, performance evaluation, and renewal / disposal. From the beginning, A.T. Kearney has been a leader in helping companies benefit from e-auction tools, spend-cube analysis, etc.IT strategy and transformation
Business challenges and opportunities for IT continue to advance rapidly, but the IT organization's strategies, operating models, and asset portfolios are too often slow to respond and difficult to change. A.T. Kearney helps clients develop the vision, strategies, and roadmaps to keep IT on the cutting-edge and at the leadership table.
IT strategy
The IT strategy aligns with and enables the overall business strategy, while leveraging the latest technology innovations. Our capabilities in IT strategy span developing the future application landscape, defining IT infrastructure architecture, and determining IT core competencies in preparation for make-or-buy decisions. We help clients make foundational IT improvements, such as strengthening relationships between business leaders and the IT organization, and aligning and managing their IT talent.IT operational improvement
Improvements to IT operations often include key decisions and implementations for new organization design, governance models and responsibilities, and outsourcing / offshoring. A.T. Kearney provides support for clients, ranging from defining and right-sizing the future IT organization to developing sustainable governance processes.IT cost reduction
When our clients need to reduce IT-related costs, they turn to us for help with optimizing their infrastructure and application portfolio, analyzing and optimizing their IT supplier portfolio, and more effective using key technologies (e.g., mainframes, server farms, networks). We apply industry-specific benchmarks for setting cost-reduction targets while maintaining or improving services, identify and apply economies of scale to gain cost advantage, and gain the information transparency necessary to drive reductions across geographies and functions.Enterprise transformation
Large-scale business events (such as a merger or complexity reduction) require a comprehensive enterprise-wide program - with IT in a leadership role. A.T. Kearney works with clients on such cross-functional, cross-process programs to help them succeed through IT's leadership in enabling and integrating all the component parts.Business model innovation
IT is able to drive the development of new business models, which often are critical for solving an industry's challenges and/or providing a company a competitive edge. With innovative business models spawned by IT, our clients have been able to integrate their business processes across the value chain, develop new customer segments and markets, etc.M&A and carve-outs
Significant organization reconfigurations - merger, acquisition, carve-out, spin-off - all depend on IT to align systems, provide seamless support, and provide ongoing expertise. We work closely with clients in detailed preparation for such configurations (often in a clean-room environment) and to roll-out systematic changes.Complexity reduction
Business sustainability
IT is critical for driving sustainable complexity reduction. Our success helping clients reduce business complexity depends in large part on solutions for gaining transparency across functions and business units, optimizing and accelerating business processes, and restructuring and simplifying value chains.
Increasingly, IT has an important part in business sustainability, as regulations are implemented and enforced around the world, and as companies gain competitive advantage from customer and employee support of sustainability initiatives. A.T. Kearney helps clients develop and implement their sustainability strategies, enhance sustainable supply chains, create related products and services, and ensure the details of a sustainability program, such as power management policies for computing equipment.
Again just to re-iterate - this is not something I have written. This is a direct copy of the official page mentioned above.