Why eLogic: Business Transformation

Transformational Business System Implementations

Dramatic results can be achieved by Industrial Equipment Manufacturers who breakthrough historical barriers to sell, design and produce products with wide-ranging differentiation and complexity.

Business transformation is always challenging. For Industrial Equipment Manufacturers (IEM), there is an added difficulty due to the lack of best practices support from many software and consulting firms. Typical challenges encountered by IEM companies when attempting to realize major improvements through new business systems include:

• Companies, organizations and individuals can become "trapped" by their limited information systems knowledge and experience. This puts a practical limit on their ability to envision all of the available opportunities and alternatives.

• Many enterprise software vendors (including the largest) and Systems Integrators/Consultants are NOT familiar with IEM market/customer driven requirements — and advocate for TEMPLATE driven 'best practices' solutions that are FAST BUT DANGEROUS as they miss many critical business needs.

• Human nature and company cultures cause organizations to cling to the past as an answer for the future. Key employees often perceive their business as completely unique or "special" when, from an industry and customer perspective they operate a 'low value-add' process that is not efficient.

• Existing "islands of automation" provide a false sense of success with regard to application of information system. In many instances these situations undermine the opportunity for systems integration and the ability to leverage critical data across the enterprise.

• Legacy systems create a false sense of security or comfort with a current process when in reality a noncompetitive business model is being perpetuated.

• Fear of failure, confusion, and the lack of in-house implementation expertise create roadblocks to serious consideration for transformational change.

• Often organizations with the best of intentions are sold a slick demo of "software" as an indication that it offers a comprehensive solution — only to learn during implementation that the key components are weak or non-functional. It is often too late to stop these marginal implementations that ultimately institutionalize weak practices.

At eLogic we work with companies to clearly define requirements, establish goals for solid improvement, and produce meaningful implementation plans and strategies which yield measureable bottom line results.