Management Consulting

When your business must make critical decisions, you need to rely on advisors with comprehensive knowledge, proven experience, and a holistic view. Finix advisers use their years of time-tested experience at all levels of management - together with a repeatable, specialized evaluation process - to generate useful high-level business direction.

Finix advisors can assist business leaders with:

• defining and achieving excellence
• adapting quickly to challenges and opportunities
• effective organizational planning
• custom management and measurement tools
• planning for effective execution

Finix will help you model and simulate, explore and understand complex strategic and design decisions and their long-term effects before investing resources in a transformation process.

Strategic Planning

The Finix team can help your company reinvent the strategic planning process. Our research-intensive, relationship-oriented approach gives us a unique understanding of your business goals and cost drivers, while our knowledge of best practices can help you drive toward actionable plans that give your company a definable edge.

Working with Finix, you will engage in conversations rather than documents, examine data rather than opinions, and work from the start to seed your goals throughout your human organization. You will know where to focus and how to allocate your valuable resources - both for the short-term and the long-term.

Business Analysis

Every successful business transformation starts with excellent business analysis. Finix's service model centers around our exceptional analytical approach, which helps our clients to reduce costs and eliminate mistakes and focus on strategies and structures that are best positioned for success. Although our analytical approach is always customized, every client can expect:

• Insightful gap analysis
• Identification of best practices
• Thorough insourcing/outsourcing evaluation

Finix also applies our business analysis capability to the requirements phase of every project, ensuring a realistic project management approach and enhancing project success metrics.

Project Management

Finix advisors work with top management at leading organizations to tackle the most difficult and unique organizational development challenges. Years of hands-on experience managing projects of all sizes, costs, and levels of complexity have given Finix advisers a detailed, personal understanding of how projects succeed. Finix puts intense focus on:

• detailed initial planning
• requirements development and validation
• aligning organization behind project charter
• critical steps and project details

Finix also offers your company a proven planning model that will vastly improve the accuracy of your anticipated project time-frames, budgets, and success metrics.

Finix project managers have a solid track record of delivering high quality projects of all sizes on time and on budget.

Business Intelligence

Superior business decisions begin with superior information. Whatever information your business needs to move forward, Finix can help you find, define, organize, and report that data in short order, using tested methodologies.

Finix's holistic advisory approach draws on the full range of the firm's expertise, not only in technology but also management strategy, policy, governance, and economics. We can not only help you generate the right data, we can also help you use it to its greatest effect.

Our Business Intelligence practice leaders have extensive experience in deploying large scale BI projects from conception to implementation and post-production support. Finix's knowledge of BI technologies and state-of-the-art processes, along with our years of experience, can increase the speed to market for our clients at much lower costs than any other BI project, regardless of size.

Application Development

Finix can help your business develop any technology application or service. Our advisers include experienced in-house application developers as well as an exceptional network of technology partners and service providers.

Of course, great applications will fail if they are not implemented correctly. Finix has years of experience in bringing state of the art technology to a number of businesses and Fortune 500 companies. Finix's capabilities cover the entire technical spectrum, from infrastructure to business and support applications.

System Integration

The complexity of today's technology platforms makes effective systems integration vital to the success of growing companies. With proven expertise in multi-vendor systems integration, Finix provides highly trained resources to help our clients break through the barriers set by distributed, heterogeneous technology environments. We work collaboratively with clients to integrate applications, systems, and data. As a result, our clients are able to protect their legacy assets while incorporating best-in-class technologies, products, and services.

By staying in touch with emerging technologies and delivery methods such as Software as a Service (SaaS), our team can evaluate the trends that impact technology and the business community. We understand that new systems must be scalable and compliment existing platforms and processes in order to deliver value.

At Finix, we work with our clients to understand their integration challenges and goals. Our goal is to deliver a customized solution with accelerated delivery and return on investment.

Infrastructure and Managed Services

A lean and efficient infrastructure is a substantial competitive advantage. But sorting through the wide range of technologies and service providers can be a risky and costly exercise. By combining a strong understanding of business analysis and operational demands with a wide-ranging awareness of technology options, Finix can help your company develop optimal, strategy-driven structures that propel your business forward. We can help at every stage of the process:

• Developing a broad infrastructure strategy
• Evaluating options for insourcing/outsourcing
• Offering technical subject matter experts to manage projects and dynamically assess needs
• Applying established Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) methodologies

We can also help your firm assess the most cost-effective means of acquiring, enhancing, or updating your IT infrastructure. Whether you need help building it, managing it, or outsourcing it, we can recommend options that you can be confident in.

Disaster Recovery and Business Recovery Planning

When your company needs to plan for, document, and establish procedures around disaster recovery, Finix is a nimble, experienced partner. With extensive expertise in disaster and business recovery planning, we can help your firm address this critical need efficiently. You can also be confident that Finix-designed plans will be thorough, customized to your business, focused on the details - and that they will work.

Business Process Improvement and Re-engineering

Growing companies must constantly re-evaluate and optimize their operational processes if they are to reap the benefits of their success. Finix is a partner that is uniquely positioned to help your company achieve these goals. Because Finix takes a holistic view of operations, business strategy and technology, we can focus on the things that matter - the choices that not only work, but work toward your specific business goals.

Finix's experience with regional, national, and global operations management can help your company, regardless of industry, tackle even the most massive process-intensive functions. With Finix on board, your company will achieve increased revenue growth, cost reduction, fewer errors, improved client service, and optimal capital efficiency. Our suite of capabilities can assist you with:

• customer segmentation
• operations management
• innovative value propositions
• risk identification
• technology investment and alignment
• innovation
• globalization
• development of new business models

Process Improvement

Finix advisors bring a proven track record and expertise in leading process management, quality improvement, and measurement and monitoring activities in both small and large organizations. We listen closely and collaborate to ensure that your processes have a positive impact on critical business drivers. We guide organizations in:

• design
• deployment
• monitoring
• process re-engineering

Finix uses a systematic process management methodology, incorporating best practices for all operational processes to ensure maximum efficiency gains. In addition, with our technical knowledge, we are able to implement automation tools rapidly to handle repetitive operational tasks, increasing the value and improving the effectiveness of each process.

Transition Management

Finix advisers have extensive experience in helping clients manage through the transition and integration phases of mergers & acquisitions. From initial due diligence assessment through the successful completion of the integration, our in-depth services include:

• Transition Services Agreements (TSAs) - including a comprehensive list of the services that the buyer and seller must continue to deliver as part of the deal. Our advisors will work to understand and document all of the required services to meet the business needs during the transition period. We also assist in monitoring the service levels for the TSA, help in managing the financial arrangements between the parties and provide advice on managing the termination of services.
• Comprehensive Integration Strategy & Plan - hands-on experience creating an integration strategy and plan that generates an orderly transition with minimal business interruption. To develop the integration timeline, we conduct an analysis of the business workflow and methodology, while taking into account the potential cost savings on large-dollar TSA services.
• Policies, Procedures & Communication - Finix can help you develop policies and procedures covering pricing, billing, payment for services, as well as services termination. We stress well-documented procedures to manage internal demand, such as the use of additional services within the TSA to ensure proper support from the buyer and seller. Finally, Finix advisors are skilled in creating an internal communication plan to ensure stakeholder buy-in on transition strategy and timeline.