Business Transformation Consulting
LEC understands business transformation requires proven programs that align business initiatives with technology, reduce complexity in process, and implement a holistic approach to managing your organization. Our business transformation expertise includes:
- Process-Centric Approach to both Business and Technology Change Programs
- Change Management, Project Management Office, Program Governance
- Change Sustainment and Adoption Programs
- Acquisition Readiness/M&A Best Practices/Integration Management
- Lean Six Sigma Training and Implementation
LEC's business transformation solutions are fully-customized to client needs. So whether you want to roll out an enterprise-wide program with strategy and training, or you want to leverage proven tools, techniques and processes to enhance your change management methodologies, We can work with you to identify and implement the best solution for you. Whether implementing change management programs, managing an integration, or transforming your business based on the voice of your customer, we provide the expertise, tools and experienced resources to move to successful business transformation. Our process-centric approach to business and technology change programs
- Includes Voice of Business and Voice of Customer in strategy development
- Leverages prototyping and interactive review as part of the assessment phase, before expending the cost of building and deployment
- Incorporates an understanding of critical business processes and key metrics for managing the business
- Ensures identification and correction of process defects
- Leverages facilitated sessions to gain consensus and commitment
- Engages stakeholders and enables strategies to adoption and sustain changes and long-term realization of investment
A project management office provides the infrastructure to support all change initiatives within an organization. LEC's Change Management/Project Management Office/Program Governance programs use a best practice approach for implementing a project management organization includes tools, templates, methodologies, knowledge transfer and qualified resources to support any organizational change. This ensures our clients have a scalable architecture to roll out both single projects and multi-phased, multiple-project programs -- all with proven tools, templates, MIS and certified project resources with functional business experience. We brings experienced consultants who have participated in many large-scale integration projects and are experienced in:
- Project Management Office (Tools, Templates and Methodologies)
- Support Areas such as facilities, systems, training, communications, human resources, finance and marketing
- Project phases from Assessment and Design through Implementation and Post-Implementation Support
Effective change initiatives are not limited to the successful execution of tasks and activities and the meeting of deadlines. Sustainable change is achieved when stakeholder adoption of the change is equally managed and executed. Our Change Sustainment and Adoption Programs focus on a holistic approach to executing change and facilitating stakeholder adoption from the top down. Specific deliverables and a phased approach ensures that change initiatives are embraced, enhanced and sustainable within the business architecture. Our approach focuses on managing resistance and implementing enabling strategies throughout the change process and across the full business transformation process.
LEC provides experience and resources necessary to achieve process efficiencies, cost savings, and competitive advantages inherent in merger and acquisition activities. Understanding an organization's readiness to pursue merger or acquisition activity is critical in ensuring competitive advantage in today's marketplace. Our readiness assessment programs take leveraged data to the next level, and identifies the readiness of people, process AND technology to facilitate successful acquisitions. These services also include creating the change infrastructure to support acquisition activity.
Our M&A teams of experienced consultants can assist you in all aspects of integrating merging organizations and assist you in optimizing the value of your combined businesses. From years of hands-on experience with merger and acquisition integration, we have developed best practices, advanced project management skills, tools templates and methodologies for all merger phases, from assessment and design through the implementation and post-implementation support phases. The foundation of our approach is teamwork. We partner with decision makers and stakeholders across levels and functions within your organization to develop and implement solutions to help you control the integration process and ensure a successful merger. Our consultants bring deep knowledge and expertise in process, line and support functions providing invaluable support to organizations facing the difficult tasks of consolidating operational infrastructures, converting systems and integrating people and products.
Our integration management team combines practical know how and intimate knowledge of service industry business processes with the unique perspective of solutions conceived and designed with Lean and Six Sigma concepts. Our proven integration management process provides speed of delivery in a repeatable and sustainable process. This includes best practice tools and methodology, as well as resource readiness and the program management office process and structure to ensure successful roll-out.
Business transformation and implementing tactical plans to support your organization’s strategic vision requires knowledge and tool sets to effectively optimize your business processes. Our customizable Lean and Six Sigma training and implementation programs provide clients with leadership, training, mentoring and implementation programs designed to shift cultures from static process to a continuous, sustainable process improvement within an organization.