Global Complexity

The trend towards more global companies shows no signs of slowing as organizations seek new markets and sources of cost competitiveness. Some of this growth is organic, while the rest comes by way of acquisitions, mergers, partnerships, and outsourcing. Planning and managing such companies is proving to be complex:

• More time is spent gathering data to support investment decisions than actually analyzing it
• Data to support acquisition, merger, and divestment decisions is not readily available
• Different product and customer definitions undermine the ability to maintain a single view of customers
• Basic product, vendor and customer information is not easily consolidated across business units
• Constant changes to such master data make trending analysis complex and time consuming
• Information systems are slow to incorporate these changes, further complicating the problem

These basic information issues prevent organizations from effectively planning, managing, and governing global customer and vendor relationships. This is significant because these relationships are often fundamental to the value of global strategies.

We help organizations address this challenge by establishing processes and systems that meet functionally-driven statutory reporting obligations, while simultaneously coordinating performance across legal entities and business units. This doesn’t mean replacing existing systems. Rather, it entails augmenting them with the tools that enable organizations to more effectively manage in a matrixed environment.