Enterprise Integration

Enterprise integration is strategic asset management in practice

Hitting the target?

Competitive advantage

Are all your resources aligned to meet your mission? Is every part of your organisation contributing to competitive advantage? Enterprise integration aims to support businesses in fusing discrete elements of business operations towards a common goal.

What is competitive advantage?

Corporate strategy ·

Corporate-level strategy is about the the overall purpose and scope of an organisation and how value is added by the different units of the organisation. It's executed at the corporate level in large (you guessed it) corporations.

Competitive strategy · ?
What is competitive strategy?

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Enterprise integration and culture

Strategic implementation is about people. It's about culture and values. In many cases the key strategic assets are individual people in your organisation, especially so in knowledge industries. But even when this is not the case, people can make or break your ability to achieve competitive advantage. We believe that achieving cultural change is a fundamental factor to facilitate alignment with your mission. Does your organisational culture help or hinder the delivery of your business strategy?

Enterprise integrating technologies

SAP, SharePoint, MOSS 2007 and Autonomy are off-the-shelf options. In many scenarios, however, bespoke solutions are needed to support unique requirements to the organisation. We are able to deliver multi-agent solutions, which are 'fit-for-purpose' and maximise efficiancy.

Proven platforms

Software is not the basis of enterprise integration, but it is the day-to-day facilitator.

Managing strategic assets is not a trivial task. The first challenge is identifying what exactly is delivering competitive advantage to your business. This may be an individual, a location, an area of expertise, a way of working or the mix of experience. Only by recognising where the value lies in your organisation, can it be protected and secured in a dynamic environment. Portfolio analysis, causal mapping and extraction of tacit knowledge using KM techniques are ways in which this vital information may be uncovered. Of course looking inward at your own competencies is just the forst stage - aligning these with the market is the next step...