Initiatives are efforts to achieve your vision and plans.
Initiatives involve change.

Initiatives come in all shapes and sizes as strategies, programs, and projects. We take on straightforward initiatives where you don’t have the time or resources. We also take on initiatives where they’re messy, shaky, or uncertain. Messy with ambiguous requirements. Shaky where people and budgets can be pulled at any time. And uncertain where it involves adopting new paradigms and methodologies like innovation, design, and AI. Our initiatives ranged from a few people, to tens of people, to hundreds of people.

performance

your backup plan is getting back on plan

We do performance improvement initiatives. Performance improvement is the systemic approach for improving your performance at the individual, team, and leadership levels. This means what we deliver is not just the lower cost option. It is the higher-performance option where you meld business and tech solutions. We work as advisors, trainers, designers, and hands-on resources. Here are some of stuff we did for performance improvement initiatives.

• capability maturity models and strategy road-mapping
• organizational redesign and incentives restructuring
• policy and process reengineering including regulatory compliance
• strategy and process realignment
• strategy and process improvement involving disruptive tech
• program and project restructuring and realignment

technology

don’t lose steam boiling the ocean

We do technology improvement initiatives. These initiatives were data-intensive, had ambiguous requirements, and were highly interconnected with other moving parts within the company. We leveraged practices from business architecture, TOGAF, BABOK, PMBOK, Agile, UX, and OOP. Here are some of the projects we contributed to and managed.

• maturing data management from spreadsheets to BI, to AI
• reengineering and implementing systems like ERP, CRM, BI, mobile, data warehouses, and reporting systems
• workflow automation including rule engines and AI
• data bridges and integrations
• migrating data management, database, and reporting solutions
• migrating program code like migrating COBOL to SQL, to Java, to Python
• programming SQL, Java, and Python code

capability development

do what you can’t so you’ll do it better

We do capability development initiatives. Capability development is improving and creating new skills, knowledge, and abilities in individuals and organizations. We work as coaches, trainers, designers, and implementors. Here’s some of our capability development work.

• adopting unfamiliar frameworks from industry experts like Gartner, Pink Elephant, and IBM
• adopting unfamiliar and disruptive tech like AI, BI, Big Data, ERP, and mobile
• delivering business and technical offices/centres for leadership, data management, business architecture, and program/project management
• developing talent pools, training courses, and training centres
• transitioning hands-on resources to management and leadership