Business Consulting

Why IBM?

IBM Ireland works with companies to develop and deliver innovative strategies which help you define your future, achieve sustainable breakthroughs in performance and drive change. We help our clients transform their enterprise and operations by:

• Business Strategy: working with business executives to focus on strategic issues at the intersection of business, customers, and technology.
• Operations Strategy: improving the effectiveness of current operating models and processes and designing new processes to support business innovation using techniques such as Lean Six Sigma Process Transformation.
• Organisation Strategy: supporting organisations during business transformation and helping clients manage change from large scale technology integration.
• Technology Strategy: working with clients to examine ways that technologies can cut costs, improve productivity, and create efficiencies while supporting core business strategies as well as working with IT organisations to ensure they have the right structures and processes in place to support the business.

Benefits

In summary, we work with you to drive cost reduction, implement sustainable change, and ensure effectiveness of IT organisation.

• Driving Cost Reduction and Improving Growth
  • Optimising organisation performance, using Lean Six Sigma Process Transformation to deliver improvements that are aligned to company strategy, core business processes and critical customer requirements.
  • Using Strategic Profit Improvement to deliver an integrated strategic analysis of improvement opportunities with a recommended plan for implementation.
• Implementing Sustainable Change

  We support your business in successfully achieving and sustaining major transformational change by focusing on:

  • Value Realisation: building the business case to drive the change programme and ensuring benefits are being realised.
  • Change Leadership: developing a culture for change.
  • Change Execution: helping people and organisations efficiently go through major changes with minimum business disruptions.
  • Organisational Alignment: aligning organisational structures and networks to deliver of business objectives.
  • High-Performance Culture: recognising the importance of organisational culture as a key enabler of business performance.
• Ensuring Effectiveness of IT organisation

  We support your business by designing a high-performance IT organisation and supporting a successful transition by establishing IT Governance and Programme Change Management. We help you to achieve operational excellence by adapting best-in-class IT processes. This includes, for example, benchmarking and best practice assessments, IT economics, and cost management.