2013 Consultant Services Preview Guide
The consumer goods (CG) business landscape is growing increasingly complex. With so many moving parts to consider, it helps to call in the experts for strategic and tactical direction. Consultancies that serve CG companies have done an excellent job in conquering industry-specific challenges, both new and old. In CGT’s brand new Consultant Services Preview Guide, leading consulting organizations showcase new services that address today’s top business needs and are worthy of your attention. Turn the page to find out how they can each guide mission-critical initiatives at the intersection of business and technology.Digital Tempus, Inc.
Specialty: Digital Tempus provides portfolio and planning expertise that helps companies manage complexity, implement segmented strategies, improve predictability, drive working capital efficiencies and realize the full potential of growth initiatives. The company helps CG companies advance integrated business planning processes, develop organization capabilities and implement insight-driven decision making, leveraging existing systems and a growing ecosystem of data.New in 2013: Digital Tempus helped a $9 billion manufacturer structure and deploy integrated business planning capabilities that connect commercial, finance and operations teams in a more effective decision-making process. By connecting leadership to the underlying behaviors of commercial and operations teams, Digital Tempus advanced a results-oriented culture aligned with the company’s growth strategy and strategic intent. The new processes, capabilities and supporting systems created an operating environment where changing market conditions are dynamically monitored, scenario planning capabilities are leveraged to evaluate tradeoffs, and the company is positioned to serve customers and defend key market positions from competitive threats. Digital Tempus will further help the company leverage advanced portfolio management capabilities to optimize growth initiatives with improved predictability, reliability and profitability.
Key Tech Partners: Expert knowledge working with JDA, Logility, Oracle, Salesforce.com and SAP, balanced with a unique network of ecosystem relationships, providing consumer and market insights to support omni-channel growth initiatives.
Hewlett Packard
Specialty: HP helps consumer industries improve business performance by helping them understand and respond to consumer behaviors through information management and analytic sciences, deliver impressionable omni-channel experiences that promote brand loyalty, streamline M&A activity through transition services, and modernize IT infrastructures, product lifecycle management and global supply chains through application transformation, security optimization and cloud-based services. HP also helps consumer industries focus on core competencies while driving cost savings with business process outsourcing.New in 2013: The consumer marketplace continues to accelerate, which creates demand for immediate response and new forms of technology. HP is working with consumer industries clients to take them on a journey to big data, mobility, cloud and security; the new form of IT infrastructure that will help meet market needs. HP is making significant investments in these areas and will be launching several new solutions in 2013. These solutions are helping clients, like Molson Coors and Luxottica, strengthen their competitive position through growth in revenue base, retention of loyal consumers, improved agility and better cost structures.
Vertical Market Focus: Apparel, Food & Beverage, Household, Health & Beauty and Specialty
Key Technology Partners: SAP, Oracle, Microsoft
Kalypso
Specialty: Kalypso helps CG leaders in innovation, R&D and marketing deliver better results from innovation. It works with organizations to develop pragmatic innovation strategies and build the sustainable capabilities needed to deliver in-market results, business growth, and consumer and customer satisfaction. Kalypso’s holistic approach to helping CG clients improve innovation performance throughout the new product development lifecycle includes Business & Innovation Strategy, Front End of Innovation, Portfolio & Pipeline Management, New Product Development Execution, Launch, Metrics, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Leadership & Culture.New in 2013: Few CG companies can articulate the financial or economic value innovation has on their business. The promise of Big Data is ubiquitous, yet companies don’t know how to utilize it to harvest insights and drive better decision making. Kalypso’s Business Intelligence and Innovation Analytics practice is working with CG organizations today to measure, manage and increase the value of innovation — and run innovation like a business. Big Data is the new driver in town for CG companies; those that leverage it and take a balanced scorecard approach to innovation will be the ones driving successful innovations.
Vertical Market Focus: Packaged Goods, Food, Beverage, Personal Care, Beauty and Fragrance, Apparel
Key Technology Partners: Objective advisory and implementation services for solution providers, including Oracle, Dassault and Sopheon