Atelier's approach to
business planning delivers customer-focused strategies
and ensures rapid implementation.
Business Strategy and
Business Model Development
Atelier staff have
performed over 30 strategy projects for clients in a wide
range of businesses. Our strategy development process
begins with assessing a company's position with respect
to the market, competition, technology and internal
capabilities. We use analytical techniques to compare
market requirements to company capabilities. Drawing from
models for service innovation in several industries, we
frame the key elements of a profitable business model,
including business proposition, pricing, systems
architecture, business processes, resource requirements
and implementation plan. This bottom-up approach to
strategy development ensures that the strategy is highly
specific and can quickly produce tangible results.
Business Process
Design
Atelier uses product
marketing capabilities to bring a unique "customer" focus
to designing business processes and defining business
systems requirements. We interview functional managers to
characterize core processes in terms of key assumptions
and elements that drive efficiency and customer
satisfaction. Working from experience with business
processes and systems in six industries, we develop
methods for coordinating work across functions that
minimize cost and optimize the customer interface.
Atelier specializes in
defining and enhancing business models and business
processes for process- and technology-based
services.
System Strategy
Development & Requirements Planning
Based on an assessment of
a company's business model, Atelier will develop a
framework and architecture for evaluating systems
alternatives. Atelier has expertise in defining
time-phased plans for making incremental changes to
existing systems and with defining requirements for
integrated systems. If appropriate, Atelier can assist
with defining customization requirements in a least-cost
fashion.