Strategic
TopDown Consulting offers comprehensive strategic services tailored to address the most unique, complex, and multi-faceted business problems. Our services extend beyond the widely accepted, strictly financial implications of EPM/BI and consider business functions that encompass virtually every aspect of the enterprise. By taking this viewpoint, over the past decade, the TopDown team has gathered vast amounts of comparative experience, allowing us to quickly recognize commonalities and emerging trends.
By leveraging this accumulated experience, we have developed a methodology and approach where we quickly assess client requirements, understand business requirements, and design and deliver a tailored solution that increases productivity, reduces risk, and helps you become more effective operationally.
TopDown’s strategic services include—
- EPM Strategy Session
- EPM Roadmap
- Application and System Reviews
A key component in TopDown’s Strategic Services is the EPM Strategy Session. With one of our most senior-level Solutions Architects presiding, we meet face-to-face with your company’s top decision-makers in a wide-ranging discourse covering everything from success factors to the potential ripple effects of proposed changes.
The EPM Strategy Session also includes an evaluation of inter-departmental relationships, a review of your technology infrastructure and qualitative business subjects, such as your key executives’ long-term vision for the future and the parts of your organization that might be resistant to the upcoming changes.
The EPM Roadmap
The final deliverable of the EPM Strategy Session is an EPM Roadmap—a concise, step-by-step plan detailing technology recommendations and deployment schedules, utilizing specific project success methodology that includes accountability roles, key performance indicators, and ROI projections, resulting in a tangible set of guidelines providing a single point of reference for everyone involved.
Tailored to fit your company’s specific needs and situation, TopDown’s EPM Roadmap may cover the following topics—
Technology
- Executive vision
- Goals and Requirements Analysis
- Technical Infrastructure Assessment
- Project Definition, Management, and Timeline
- Systems Assessment and Documentation
- Product Evaluations and Resource Recommendations
- Site Planning and Deployment
- Process Improvement Recommendations
Accountability
- Definition and Measurement of Project Success
- Key Performance Indicators
- Goals vs. Results Assessment
Application and System Reviews
TopDown will review your systems with an eye to expanding them to reduce workload, solve additional business problems, and increase the value of your EPM/BI investment. After a thorough assessment of your installed system and the utilization of your current applications, we will make recommendations for how to improve ROI, streamline processes, customize interfaces, and—if warranted—update or upgrade the system as a whole. Our review can also help you identify process controls that need to be implemented to meet compliance requirements.
