Our services are custom-tailored to meet the unique needs and culture of your company, incorporating our in-depth experience of industry best practices.

Strategic Plan Development, Assessment, and Business Model Validation

Through collaboration with your team, we address the following stages of the strategic plan:

• Strategy Assessment
• Work Processes and Structure
• Performance Management and Systems
• Roadmap for the Future

Our focus is to ensure concept viability from the Boardroom through practical implementation in your operation.

Development of financial and operational models for maximizing the profitability of products and services

We develop and employ the use of financial tools and models that tie your operation's performance to financial results. As simple as this sounds, experience has shown us that many organizations have gaps in their management information and business processes that lead to disparity in results between the productivity-based measurements and the P&L statements. Additionally, these organizations struggle to understand the true cost of their products and services, which results in erroneous pricing and/or margin erosion. Beason|Sutherland creates financial models and develops business processes to help you improve the quality of service, manage operating costs and effectively price products and services in order to achieve desirable, predictable, and profitable results.

Business process design, integration, and measurement

Our approach to your business challenges is process driven - we believe that a process-driven approach is fundamental to achieving desired results. To be effective, information must be captured at the right time, and be integrated with other information and made available where and when it is needed.

Through collaboration with your teams, we will formulate, facilitate and implement practical solutions that address changing market demands while ensuring quantifiable measurements to assess progress and improving bottom line performance.

Strategic systems assessment

Effective systems result in significant improvements in your competitive position, the quality and efficiency of services delivered and return on information systems technology. We will help you understand where opportunities may exist, what the real business potential is of those opportunities, and help you structure a solution that will meet your business needs.

The following is a sampling of the specific projects and deliverables we have provided for previous clients:

• Developed detailed Standard/Activity Based Costing model and Operational P&L Workbook for analysis of each site's contribution.
• Participated in Strategic Systems Planning project including:
• Authoring high-level requirements and performing vendor evaluations.
• Modeled the transaction cost based on rollout scenarios for selected applications and projected business volumes.
• Developed Benefits Statement to support capital budgeting and approval.
• Developed business requirements and prototype for labor planning and payroll reporting system.
• Established strategic critical success factors.
• Designed and developed Service Reporting System to drive quality of service improvements.
• Performed analysis and developed pricing proposal that led to our client securing incremental business from one their largest customers.
• Performed site audits for improving customer service and site contribution.
• Developed complex new product pricing model for ASP applications derived from user concurrency, network and server loads, and licensing requirements.
• Provided general consulting services to executive management regarding accounting, operations and organizational issues.

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