DESIGN OF BUSINESS MODELS. ORGANISATIONAL, TECHNOLOGICAL AND STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS.”
Model Design & Business Planning
Increasing our Customers’ performance means, first and foremost, starting from the core business in which they operate, with the awareness that challenging goals and an increasingly complex competitive environment require a growing capacity to define flexible business models and to be able to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the latest innovation trends, also taking cues from markets that are often distant from the context in which the companies involved traditionally operate. A winning business model always puts the focus on the Customer: for us, identifying their needs and interpreting them in an original way compared to the competition represents the starting point for the development of truly value-added products and services. A Customer-centric vision requires the support of an operational machine and of a proper distribution model: it is unlikely for innovative products and services to work together with structures that think in “old terms” when it comes to organisation, processes and tools.
Analysis & Solutions Shaping
Our ambition has always been not to merely stop at the design, but to arrive at defining working solutions (organisational and technological) capable of affecting the daily lives of Customers and Users. We approach the design of solutions using a rigorous methodology that starts from a thorough study of the core market and from innovation insights gained in other contexts: the goal is to identify incentives to be intersected with our Customers’ ambitions in order to arrive at a design of the target solution. Knowing where to arrive is not enough: the starting point – in other words the characteristics of our Customers – must be clear; moreover, it is necessary to have the ability to build an evolution process that is the result of rigorous analysis activities aimed at defining the process-related, organisational and functional aspects of the solutions.
Project Governance
The governance of a large project is a complex challenge. Making things happen at the right time, coordinating the action of different players in terms of their profile and origin, is almost an art, which in e*finance Consulting Reply we have mastered quite well. Managing a project implies precision and methodology as there are many variables involved, subject to constant change. The goal is to respect the starting mandate and to stay within the right timeframes and the budget defined. All this while managing risks and addressing problems, handling the communication in a balanced way at all company levels. To achieve the objectives set, always.
Enterprise Architecture
A business solution must pass from the definition of an IT architecture (Solution Architecture) that is able to bring together and integrate the services provided by existing applications with the new technologies considered. Using best practices adopted by the market, capabilities maps and a methodology derived from the experience gained over many years of activity in the Financial Institutions sector, we support our Customers in activities relating to:
- IT assessment, for the definition of templates and scenarios of transformation of the IT landscape and of the related cost-benefit analysis;
- IT design of architectural solutions with make vs. buy analysis and management of the software selection process;
- scouting of software products, creation of Proof-of-Concepts (PoC) and use cases for determining the applicability of the product; design authority activities, with the aim of validating the work of the system integrator in terms of compliance with the overall architectural design and the defined requirements.