Digital Transformation

As part of the enterprise transformation, clients aim to build frameworks to bridge corporate business strategy to their information technology. A Business Capability Model will ultimately enable strategic and intelligent IT investment prioritization

Enterprise business leaders can rely onĀ the powerĀ of a Business Capability ModelĀ (BCM)Ā methodology toĀ develop a consistent approach to communicating an intended digital transformation of the enterprise.Ā 

LeadersĀ will defineĀ LevelĀ 0 and LevelĀ 1Ā capability maps.Ā Ā TheĀ initial project phaseĀ activities are designed to produce the BCM framework that can be more fully leveraged in aĀ later phaseĀ effort.Ā  That effortĀ may include As-IsĀ landscapes, business trends, tech trends, SWOT analysis, Level-1 strategic roadmaps,Ā aĀ BCM portal,Ā andĀ aĀ BCM communications plan.Ā Ā 

Blackstone+Cullen can help measure every step and analyze what-if scenarios using data from many sources across the enterprise.Ā Ā 

We also help business leaders establish aĀ solid methodology for examiningĀ businessĀ readiness, capabilities, competencies, profitability, capacity,Ā customer satisfaction,Ā employeeĀ satisfaction, domain expertise,Ā supply chain,Ā and quality,Ā among other factors.Ā  With this methodology, business leaders canĀ assign very critical customerĀ project priorities across the enterprise.Ā 

How We Help Clients

Lead Business Capabilities Model Process Globally

With a prioritized roadmap in place,Ā client teamsĀ validate theĀ prioritiesĀ and details ofĀ the defined workstreams.Ā Ā We leadĀ data acquisitionĀ andĀ modelĀ formulation toĀ enableĀ what-if analysis.Ā Next, weĀ buildĀ a global project prioritization plan for each workstream.Ā  We also describeĀ the organization needed to accomplish the desired outcome.Ā Ā We put in placeĀ LevelĀ 0Ā points of contact (business and IT) for each LevelĀ 0 capability.Ā Finally, weĀ identify BCM core team membersĀ who willĀ help withĀ information gathering and review theĀ BCMĀ plan.Ā 

Business Capabilities Assessments

We lead workshops with key client team members to establish a roadmap for the construction of the Business Capabilities Model globally.  We help define workstreams and assign them to internal SMEs and program/project managers.  We guide the development of a benefits value model and establish agreement across the organization. Finally, we deliver a communications plan for success. 

Drive Digital Transformation Resource Requirements

We interview LevelĀ 1 points of contact (business and IT) to clarify capability scope (process),Ā representativeĀ criticalĀ systems (technology),Ā and resources (people).Ā Ā TheĀ system list is notĀ necessarilyĀ exhaustiveĀ in the first phase, butĀ it isĀ insteadĀ a starting point to help understand the model.Ā Ā Then, we document aĀ resource dimension to identify key business process owners that can help clarify future scope questions and identify existing IT structures that supportĀ aĀ capability.Ā 

Guide Results with Expert Project Management

Our experienced andĀ fully qualifiedĀ program and project managers ensure thatĀ project requirements accurately reflectĀ BCMĀ goals andĀ defineĀ organizational requirements andĀ projects to meet expectations and scheduled delivery dates.Ā 

What We Do

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Digital Transformation Strategy

Delivering a prioritizedĀ BCM modelĀ roadmap to success built fromĀ a set ofĀ businessĀ capabilitiesĀ scenarios critical to the success of aĀ world-classĀ digital transformationĀ framework.Ā Ā 

Digital Transformation Benchmarking

Improving the capability to assess and compareĀ competitive performance across multiple success criteria and provide reliableĀ guidanceĀ forĀ futureĀ BCMĀ performance.Ā 

Enterprise BCM Performance

EnhancingĀ BCMĀ performance management processes through more efficient and effective planning, forecasting, analysis, reporting, and predictive modeling.Ā 

Driving Business Strategy to Align with Business Capabilities

Building a framework toĀ map BCM to Business Strategy and ensure theĀ right human resources are in place to deliver success.Ā 

Customized View of BCM Portfolio Maximize Management Insight

Defining a cross-enterprise Business Capabilities Model for flexible scenario analysis and connecting data sources from across the enterprise.Ā  Providing a unified performance reporting and what-if analysis tool to enable informed control team performance and management.Ā  Includes role-based views of the BCM progress using the same core data to provide actionable insights.Ā 

Cross-Cultural Integration

DeliveringĀ management and operational processes that allow smooth crosscultural integration.Ā Ā Post-acquisition integrationĀ may take months or even years for trust to bring the parties together.Ā 

Cross-Functional BCM Insights

Building specialized data and advanced analyticsĀ views to enable theĀ transformation teamĀ to exercise successfulĀ operational control of theĀ business capabilities modeling processĀ and optimally alignĀ business needsĀ andĀ strategicĀ opportunities.Ā Ā ShowsĀ details ofĀ on-time,Ā on-budget deliverables with weekly management updates.Ā 

Quarterly Digital Transformation Reviews

Preparing and leading or supporting quarterlyĀ digital transformationĀ reviews with eachĀ businessĀ unit’sĀ business plans, sales plans, and marketing plans toĀ confirmĀ their validity and ability to build market penetration, growĀ revenue-generatingĀ capacity,Ā andĀ ensureĀ customer satisfaction.Ā 

Global Data Integration

ImplementingĀ a global data warehouseĀ to provideĀ top to bottom views of enterprise performance.Ā  Integrating hundreds of disparate data sources to achieveĀ near-real-timeĀ response to the latestĀ what-if questionsĀ to give aĀ significant competitive advantage.Ā Ā Role-basedĀ views against the same data sources allow the entire enterprise to make consistent decisions.Ā 

Manufacturing View of the Enterprise

Developing a specializedĀ manufacturingĀ viewĀ ofĀ what is needed in digital transformationĀ thatĀ is significantly differentĀ thanĀ aĀ finance view.Ā Ā A manufacturing team isĀ concerned withĀ shop floor control systems, robotics, safety, predictive maintenance, manufacturing execution systems, quality, rejects,Ā andĀ vendor management.Ā 

BCM Scorecard / Dashboard

Delivering a BCM dashboard that enables each operation to review hundreds of metrics and other management information that reflects the operational performance in the BCM program and compares the operating performance to other operations.Ā 

Channel Conflict Mitigation

Establishing rules and tools to enable channel conflict mitigation as needed to capture and resolve partner concerns that arise when an overzealous technical rep removes a partner from a deal registered by the partner and assigns the deal to another partner.Ā  Includes an automated mechanism that provides traceability and a process for informing upper management when deal management is being gamed.

Executive Briefing - Get Stuff Done

Delivering executives what they need, when they need it,Ā and allow them to askĀ What-ifĀ questions without building new models.Ā  Reducing the time for a weekly executive briefing from hours toĀ 15 minutes is easily achievable with the right expertise.Ā Ā Ā 

OPEX vs. CAPEX Planning

Delivering significant advantage by helping to categorize CAPEX and OPEX projectsĀ properly.Ā  Taking advantage of R&D Tax credits.Ā 

Our Approach

We begin with a development of a powerful business capability model that guides implementation projects to success

Digital Transformation Business Capability Model

We begin with a set of capability and maturity assessment models to provision a world-class Digital Transformation Business Capabilities Modeling Program.Ā  We then prioritize and organize a roadmap for the post-merger integration activities. The concept is simple but powerful.Ā 

We begin with a set of blocks on a page that lays out the identified BCM projects, like those shown in the example following. Next, we work with our client to mark up the titles or project names to reflect what we need to deliver accurately. Finally, we make sure to include completed projects and programs.

As an example of such a working roadmap, review the diagram following.Ā  Green represents projects completed, dark blue denotes projects underway, light blue, orange, and purple refer to new projects with high, medium, and low priority. An actual briefing document follows as an example.

Data-Driven Discovery and Outcomes

We guide our clients through the channel program development process.Ā  First, we look at the desired outcome, making sure that we ask the right questions to allow deep dive “What-if” analysis.Ā  Then, we ensure that we have the data needed to answer those questions.Ā 

Data Acquisition for the Digital Transformation Experience

Building access to clean, accurate, and timely data is a primary concern of digital transformation success.Ā  The quality of the what-if sensitivity analysis is entirely dependent on the accuracy and timeliness of the data.Ā  After the data is secured, what-if tools can be developed.

Our approach uses “Common Business Objects” to guarantee that only clean data reaches the data consumption engine.Ā  This approach isolates master data management outside the walls of the data repository.

Business Capabilities Modeling

Modeling for the Digital Transformation Business Capabilities Program begins with the assembly of data, controls, and those algorithms that deliver the magic behind the screen. Then, informed analysis determines details from the scaling of inputs to the desired data range for what-if controls, and of course, the complex business scenario that connects all these elements.

Post Acquisition Integration - Digital Insights

Data integration makes possible delivery of a set of comprehensive consolidated digital views of the merged enterprise.Ā  These views deliver immediately actionable insights such as revenue and profit by product comparisons between divisions or regions.

The example dashboard shown below demonstrates a newly formed four-region enterprise where each region uses a different CRM or ERP system.Ā  With digital insights, you can translate strategy into purposeful action.

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