Profitability Diagnostic and Impact Engagement
The Avisen IMPACT Engagement
Now, more than ever, managers are faced with mandates to cut costs. But it’s important to cut the right costs, based on good information, that protects your business for future growth.
A focus on short term incremental gains often overlooks opportunities to strengthen long term performance. However if it is done correctly, smart companies can emerge from a recession stronger than ever.
The Avisen IMPACT Engagement is an experience-based consulting engagement that focuses on strategic cost reduction and profit growth with an aim to strengthen long term performance. Avisen’s unique and proven approach to business modeling rapidly analyses your company’s existing data to provide new, precise, actionable insight into strategic cost reduction and profit improvement opportunities.
What does the Avisen IMPACT Engagement involve?
An Integrated Model
Avisen’s comprehensive, interdepartmental view of your business utilises readily available data to provide you with accurate numbers upon which every department will agree. Your company’s unique data is applied to pre-built processes and cost structure models derived from Avisen’s deep industry experience and expertise. We dramatically reduce ‘time-to-value’ by jump-starting your engagement with our reference model database.
Profit Analysis
A profitability snapshot of your business will quickly and accurately identify profit winners and losers across customers, products, channels etc. We will help you to immediately focus your cost reduction initiatives on profit drains such as excess capacity and under utilisation of resources. Without this view of costs tied to revenue and profitability (our core area of expertise), blind cost cutting could cripple or destroy your business.
Cost Reduction
Avisen’s comprehensive, actionable view pinpoints areas for immediate cost reduction and enables you to perform across the board precision cost reduction reducing the risk of negatively impacting long-term performance, moving your cost reduction efforts from reactive to strategic.
Now, more than ever, managers are faced with mandates to cut costs. But it’s important to cut the right costs, based on good information, that protects your business for future growth.
A focus on short term incremental gains often overlooks opportunities to strengthen long term performance. However if it is done correctly, smart companies can emerge from a recession stronger than ever.
The Avisen IMPACT Engagement is an experience-based consulting engagement that focuses on strategic cost reduction and profit growth with an aim to strengthen long term performance. Avisen’s unique and proven approach to business modeling rapidly analyses your company’s existing data to provide new, precise, actionable insight into strategic cost reduction and profit improvement opportunities.
What does the Avisen IMPACT Engagement involve?
An Integrated Model
Avisen’s comprehensive, interdepartmental view of your business utilises readily available data to provide you with accurate numbers upon which every department will agree. Your company’s unique data is applied to pre-built processes and cost structure models derived from Avisen’s deep industry experience and expertise. We dramatically reduce ‘time-to-value’ by jump-starting your engagement with our reference model database.
Profit Analysis
A profitability snapshot of your business will quickly and accurately identify profit winners and losers across customers, products, channels etc. We will help you to immediately focus your cost reduction initiatives on profit drains such as excess capacity and under utilisation of resources. Without this view of costs tied to revenue and profitability (our core area of expertise), blind cost cutting could cripple or destroy your business.
Cost Reduction
Avisen’s comprehensive, actionable view pinpoints areas for immediate cost reduction and enables you to perform across the board precision cost reduction reducing the risk of negatively impacting long-term performance, moving your cost reduction efforts from reactive to strategic.
The Avisen Advantage
The Avisen IMPACT Engagement is based on a proven methodology used successfully by our customers for many years. It is similar to the services of competitive management consulting firms but with several significant advantages:
How do we get started on the Avisen IMPACT Engagement for your business?
We will first determine what deliverables your company needs (if not clear, we perform a rapid assessment) in order to produce an engagement plan.
Engagement Plan Outline:
Engagement Plan Identification:
Strategic cost reduction opportunities and actions including inefficient processes, excess capacity in processes & resources, and ‘cost to serve insight’ so that you understand where to cut intelligently to meet cost reduction targets. Key to intelligent cost reduction is operational efficiency.
We will provide the insight into redundancies and non-value-add activities that you need to improve efficiencies and reduce costs. This powerful insight can be used to renew, re-organise and re-energise your organisation without excess capacity and wasted resources.
Profit drivers and profit levers of your company, including profitable and unprofitable customers, products, channels, organisations and process. You will receive a profitability analysis of key business dimensions like customers, products, channels, organisations and processes. Avisen will help you identify profit losers and winners so that you can shift resources to nurture profitable growth.
The Avisen IMPACT Engagement is based on a proven methodology used successfully by our customers for many years. It is similar to the services of competitive management consulting firms but with several significant advantages:
- Precision cost analysis
- Deeper, business insight
- Quicker results
- Less expensive
- Less resource intensive
- Automated & sustainable solution option
- Intelligent cost reduction opportunities
How do we get started on the Avisen IMPACT Engagement for your business?
We will first determine what deliverables your company needs (if not clear, we perform a rapid assessment) in order to produce an engagement plan.
Engagement Plan Outline:
- Cost
- Deliverables, reports, analysis and recommendations
- Timeframe
- Resources (primarily a straightforward data request)
Engagement Plan Identification:
Strategic cost reduction opportunities and actions including inefficient processes, excess capacity in processes & resources, and ‘cost to serve insight’ so that you understand where to cut intelligently to meet cost reduction targets. Key to intelligent cost reduction is operational efficiency.
We will provide the insight into redundancies and non-value-add activities that you need to improve efficiencies and reduce costs. This powerful insight can be used to renew, re-organise and re-energise your organisation without excess capacity and wasted resources.
Profit drivers and profit levers of your company, including profitable and unprofitable customers, products, channels, organisations and process. You will receive a profitability analysis of key business dimensions like customers, products, channels, organisations and processes. Avisen will help you identify profit losers and winners so that you can shift resources to nurture profitable growth.
Engagement Plan Deliverables
Accurate Insight into Costs
More Effective Operations
Better Costing & Profitability Management
State of the Art Business Performance Modelling
Improved Decision Support
The Bottom Line
The actions you take from our insight will drive meaningful cost reduction and profit improvement for your company. This initiative has yielded a 3-5% cost reduction in the first six months and up to 15% of revenue in bottom line profit improvements for our existing customers.
Avisen gives you the full transparency you need in order to meet cost cutting mandates with intelligent, precision cuts as opposed to a blind, across the board strategy. Can you afford to miss this opportunity for not only surviving but renewing and strengthening your company’s competitive position?
Accurate Insight into Costs
- Value and non-value added services
- Back office processing
- Targeted campaigns and segment initiatives
- Profitability of channels, products, customers
More Effective Operations
- Understand process costs
- Capacity planning
- Resource utilisation
- Mitigate operational risk
Better Costing & Profitability Management
- Precision cost reduction
- Increase profitable/decrease non-profitable customers and products
- Product rationalisation
- Effective pricing
State of the Art Business Performance Modelling
- Transaction-level costing
- Fast, timely reports and analytics
- Easy modeling of dynamic business scenarios
Improved Decision Support
- Cost allocation visibility
- Capacity and resource management
- Better reporting and dashboards
The Bottom Line
The actions you take from our insight will drive meaningful cost reduction and profit improvement for your company. This initiative has yielded a 3-5% cost reduction in the first six months and up to 15% of revenue in bottom line profit improvements for our existing customers.
Avisen gives you the full transparency you need in order to meet cost cutting mandates with intelligent, precision cuts as opposed to a blind, across the board strategy. Can you afford to miss this opportunity for not only surviving but renewing and strengthening your company’s competitive position?