Archive 2009

• The top reason listed for the failure of BI & EPM initiatives remains the absence or loss of executive sponsorship.” - Gartner
• In the majority of cases (we estimate 70%), the real problem is bad strategy execution - “Why CEO's fail”, Fortune Magazine
• “Organisations exercising world-class enterprise performance management, including widespread dispersal of the tools, enjoy 2.4 times the three-year equity market returns of typical companies in their industry” – Business Week, 2008

• Well established experience in delivering Asset Lifecycle Management solutions


• We have a global pool of resources capable of offering Business Consulting, Systems Implementation and Support services


• We have a diversity of industry groups that specialise in ALM, which offer a high degree of overlap contributing to our overall knowledge base.


• ALM Consultants with an average of over 8 years experience with ALM solutions


• Our knowledge and experience encourages input back into standard solutions as recognised by being SAP’s chosen co-development partner for iMRO the SAP solution targeted at ALM

Did You Know:

Marketing planning and campaign management can bring councils:

• An overall strategic approach to planning communications to support the Council Plan objectives.
• Enables planning of communications based on evidence and research findings e.g. Annual Survey, Best Value Performance Indicators (BVPI) , and Corporate Performance Assessment (CPA).

• The use of key evidence to plan campaigns
• Communications activities based on analytical evidence
• More effective budgeting on communications activities
• Multi-channel campaigns based on the customers preferred communication medium
• An overall framework for monitoring, measuring and reporting on effectiveness of council communications.

• Companies in capital-intensive industries face incredibly complex investment decisions. An approach using thorough optimisation-based analysis can clarify trade-offs between risks and returns, produce a flexible portfolio strategy that responds to uncertainty, and ensure that investments are recouped in the long term.
  The Boston Group
• Better decisions under uncertainty require, for example, learning to track the economic value at risk in projects in real time and to tie this knowledge to processes that would help them escalate decisions to the proper levels quickly.
  McKinsey & Company
• Oil and gas companies are busy these days, so it is difficult for them to free up resources for new projects. The fact is that many jobs and projects get commissioned without a clearly defined objective. Then, once the job is complete, no one looks back to assess its value.
  The Boston Group

• Compliance and Regulatory


• Riskier Markets


• Price Fluctuations


• Increased complexity to operate


• Consolidation and acquisition in the sector


• These margin pressures and increasing complexity to operate is demanding integrated applications


• SAP Business Objects provides a full class-leading Business Intelligence suite that works with both SAP and heterogeneous applications


• The Business Intelligence market is evolving and data exploration technology now makes information acquisition easier than ever before


• Business Intelligence solutions to these industry issues are a major part of enabling enterprise systems ROI


• HCL AXON experts have been implementing SAP Business Objects solutions over the last decade in both OFS and Oil & Gas sectors

In this informative webinar, you will discover how to:

1. How SAP Value Engineering helps you in achieving:
   1. Reduced project TCO
   2. Reduced Time to Value
   3. Reduced Change Management costs as a % of TCO
2. How HCL AXON Business Benefits Realization Methodology helps in:
   1. Providing a clear indication of where and how to release Cash in your business
   2. Developing the financial rationale to support any investment required to release the cash
3. Case Studies on how the leading organizations have realized cashable Business Benefits from SAP

• Why Customer Insight (CI) is important and how it can help meet the strategic and operational challenges of Public Sector organisations Further Information

• What are the key challenges facing the Professional Service sector


• How improved strategic planning and execution can optimise value


• What performance management capabilities are required to weather the storm


• Some case examples of good performance management practice


• Thoughts for the future