Margin Improvement Program Suite
Building Internal Market Economy
Global Template ROI
Reporting, Analytics & Business Intelligence
Digital Strategy
Agency/Advertiser – Compensation
IT Strategy and Business Process Review
Operational Risk Management.
Overhead Reduction
Margin Improvement Program Suite
- Proprietary methodology proven to increase agency margins by at least 20% after 12 months
- 50% of our fees are linked to the program results
- Margins & cost savings KPI’s are tracked via personalized websites and dashboards
Leveraging Agency Investment in Technology Assets by Building Internal Market Economy
- Leverage internally developed Business Intelligence, Reporting, ERP & Media solutions or licensed third party applications by enhancing system features where applicable and developing global marketing & rollout strategies across the enterprise
Global ERP Templates (SAP, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Dynamics, etc.)
- Provide experienced industry SME resources to supplement Global Template rollouts of enterprise ERP solutions
- Establishing a valid ROI from significant investments in enterprise platforms
- Ability to enhance templates with value-added & critical functionality
- Ensure substantial savings by ability to focus on key requirements and then accelerate deployment
- Assist agencies with system migration to Dynamics/AX, SAP and PeopleSoft
Reporting, Analytics & Business Intelligence
- Ability to extract data from complex ad industry database structures and generate unique client reporting
- Business Intelligence Platforms
- Cross Media Analytics
- Enterprise Treasury Management Systems
- True Client Profitability Reporting
- Customized Dashboards
- Enterprise Data Warehousing based around extracting data from multiple source systems
- Buildng Analytics Dashboards on top of "Big Data". Vendor neutral: BO, Cognos, Spotfire, MSRS, MicroStrategy, etc.
- Master Data Management
- Analyze Digital planning & buying processes from multiple data sources.
- Assess effectiveness of business support
- Deliver scalable reporting solutions from digital applications such as iDesk
- Build Digital Strategies for agency holding companies
- Leverage investments in subsidiary technology companies
- Build proprietary analytics platforms
- Define the line between "price of entry" and the ability to recognize when incremental revenue opportunities apply
- Identify acquisition / divestiture opportunities
Agency/Advertiser – Compensation
- Focus on top 25 – 50 clients or as directed
- Integrated Contract Management
- Scope of Work Audit
- Pay for performance strategies - quantitative & qualitative
- Implement Fee Proposal & Resource Management Methodology
- Guidelines for agency compensation review & contract renewal
- Independent Client Reviews for Agency Evaluation
IT Strategy and Business Process Review
- Global Technology Reviews
- Achieve significant reduction in IT spend as a % of revenue
- Reduce number of source systems across the enterprise
- IT investment management
- IT Value Contribution Analysis
- Improve IT governance
- Favor remediation and integration over replacement of IT assets
- Redefine enterprise wide business processes incorporating regional considerations and client reporting requirements.
- Specialize in undertaking detailed Business Analysis assignments following major account shifts when client mandated proprietary systems or reporting applications are involved. Provide guidance and develop technology solutions to enable business continuity.
- Focus on higher risk areas
- Client credit exposure
- Sequential liability
- Automate compliance process
- Risk Matrix Methodology
- Data Protection Act (EU)
- Proven methodology for achieving significant reduction in corporate overhead
- Rationalizing holding company charges
- Unified vendor management
- Create efficiencies by leveraging previous layoffs in reorganization effort
- Proven reduction in next fiscal’s TBH forecast