Continuous Value Management

The point of implementing a major business application is to help your company meet its strategic goals. Any company beginning an analysis of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software should be making decisions that are value-based from day one. So, how can you adopt a value approach for choosing ERP software?

We believe in the concept of Continuous Value Management and in a series of lifecycle steps built around a modeling and services approach called Opportunity Analyzer (OA).

Opportunity Analyzer allows companies to discover the profit potential associated with business process improvements. By using a rigorous modeling approach, Opportunity Analyzer works with you to:

• Populate a high-level profit and loss model;
• Identify target areas for improvement;
• Show the relevant key performance indicators (KPIs);
• Tie the KPI to related business processes and best practices;
• Decide how much you can improve the KPI;
• Translate the opportunity directly back to the profit and loss;
• Consider additional KPIs that lead to more profitable opportunities.

Continuous Value with Opportunity Analyzer

Before an implementation
Wouldn’t it be nice to know which business processes have the greatest profit potential, and where you should focus the most energy in your ERP implementation? Opportunity Analyzer helps to center your discussions on finding business areas and quantifying the improvements.

During the implementation
Opportunity Analyzer can perform an audit mid-project to confirm that the scope and targets of the ERP project are still focused and ensure the implementation stays on track.

After you have gone live
Whether you have used Opportunity Analyzer before or not, you can begin at any time. Based on your original ERP business plan, you will be able to tell whether or not your goals are being met. If they are not being met, Opportunity Analyzer will help you prioritize different opportunities.

Implement the annual strategic plan
Opportunity Analyzer will clearly let you see if the new strategy is viable and how the new organization compares to past years by comparing two runs of Opportunity Analyzer.

Mergers and Acquisitions
Opportunity Analyzer can be used to analyze any company you wish to acquire. It can also be used to understand the merged organization and to build a roadmap for change.






The Bottom Line
Whenever your company goes through a significant change, Opportunity Analyzer can help you maximize opportunities and make continuous value management a reality.