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Business Transformation

Business Health Check

The 3e Factor Business Transformation Services include a unique Business Health Check for businesses looking to:

  • Bring their costs under control.
  • Rationalise their resources.
  • Make sure they trade as well as possible into the future.

Our experience shows that many businesses do not have the information required to allow them to plan properly for a tighter economic environment and others find it difficult to gain greater efficiency from their existing infrastructure.

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Benefits

Key benefits of The 3e Factor Business Transformation services are:

  • We support businesses to transform.
  • We have a team of highly qualified and experienced Trusted Advisors who guide businesses through the critical aspects of transformation.
  • We support our clients with skills transfer and the ability to become self-sufficient.
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Program Management and Governance

The 3e Factor approach to Program Management and Governance is based on a clear understanding of the principles for success in business transformation. It expands the focus beyond delivering projects on time and on budget to include the delivery of outcomes and value required by the stakeholders.

This expanded view incorporates two key principles:

  • Effective Program Governance is the key to a successful outcome; and
  • Effective Program Governance requires the Project Steering Committee and Project Management to ensure all key aspects of governance are addressed.

What is the Focus?

The 3e Factor Program Management and Governance services address all the key factors that are essential to a successful outcome. These include:

  • Understanding what it takes to successfully drive business transformation
  • Managing Expectations
  • Managing Risk
  • Mentoring
  • Ensuring Project Design covers all bases, including:
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Budget
  • Recognising all the dimensions of scope and how they should be managed

Critical Success Factors

The 3e Factor approach is based on the following factors that are critical to success in Program Management and Governance:

  • Share ownership of project outcomes with the Governance team.
  • Achieving the Business Objectives by understanding the value of change management.
  • Engage Sponsors and Steering Committee to be owners of the outcome.
  • Managing risk is the key responsibility of the Steering Committee and Project Manager, who must:
  • Proactively identify risks
  • Keep risk management visible
  • Ensure mitigations are in place and monitored regularly

Mentoring - The 3e Factor Role

  • Experienced Trusted Advisor and sounding board to Project Management
  • Guidance to the Steering Committee - an active participant driving engagement and the correct behavior.
  • An independent view

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Social Networking

The 3e Factor approach to Social Networking is based on our strong conviction that a key to success in business transformation is a high level of skill in engaging and interacting with the people involved. Generational change and rapidly evolving markets and technologies are having a strong influence on communication media and the effectiveness of traditional communication tools.

The 3e Factor Social Networking processes extend the focus beyond the technical aspects of business transformation to ensure the delivery of outcomes and value that are sustainable. This expanded view of success in business transformation is built on four key principles:

  • Effective and timely engagement of all key stakeholders.
  • P​​​rovision for interaction and feedback in the communication processes.
  • Selection of the most appropriate social networking tools for the situation.
  • E​ffective use of the best available tools for communication and knowledge transfer.

The 3e Factor approach addresses stakeholder engagement in business transformation by providing enhanced skills in three key areas of Social Networking:

  • Communications
  • Social Media Tools
  • Knowledge Transfer

These services are based on more than 8 years of experience in this field, and a deep understanding of the needs and requirements of organisational communications. The unique value offered is a capability to bring together a wide range of communication tools and media, including social media, and develop a coherent strategy for meeting the needs of both the organisation and the relevant target audiences.

What is the Focus?

The 3e Factor Social Networking services focus on one or more of these challenges to ensure effective and sustainable business transformation:

  • Keeping the target audiences fully informed and up-to-date on the latest critical information.
  • Identifying and resolving low employee engagement or falling satisfaction.
  • Overcoming ineffective or low take-up of existing communications tools.
  • Implementing Web 2.0 or social media tools to improve engagement and communication.
  • Improving knowledge of a rapidly-changing market.
  • Increasing understanding of and engaging with customers.
  • Improving employee access to the information and expertise required to carry out their responsibilities.
  • Enhancing community understanding of the organisation and its strategies.
  • Ensuring better collaboration between staff and enabling Communities of Practice.
  • Overcoming the frustration of Subject Matter Experts faced with repeated phone calls and email from the target audience when they cannot find the information they need.
  • Ensuring content is being adequately kept up to date.
  • Reducing employee complaints that it takes too long to find the content that they need to effectively do their job or that the information is scattered over a number of systems or repositories.

Communications

The 3e Factor approach to successful Social Networking for business transformation:

  • Recognises the need to communicate with all stakeholders, both internal and external.
  • Understands the importance of engaging at a deeper level with all stakeholders - customers, employees and the community.
  • Acknowledges that the target audiences may be diverse and require different approaches.
  • Identifies where existing communications initiatives could be enhanced.

The 3e Factor can assist your organisation to develop an improved communication program to strengthen your organisation's ability to engage with your stakeholders, both internally and externally. These services are designed to optimise efficiencies, increase take-up, and improve customer satisfaction.

Specific elements of a communication consultancy engagement may include:

  • Reviewing your existing communications program and recommending improvements and alternatives.
  • Presenting to key staff on alternative communications technologies, tools and media, focusing on areas of application to your environment.
  • Facilitating the development of an enhanced communication strategy to meet the specific needs and characteristics of your target audiences.
  • Developing and providing advice on a coherent communications program, including multi-media communication tools, Web 2.0 and social media techniques.
  • Overseeing the roll-out of new communications tools and media.

Social Media Tools

The 3e Factor approach to using social media tools for commitment to business transformation:

  • Recognises the need to communicate effectively with all stakeholders, both internal and external.
  • Understands the importance of engaging at a deeper level with stakeholders - customers, employees and the community.
  • Appreciates that major change initiatives may need increased employee participation.
  • Acknowledges generational change and the rapid shifts occurring in the marketplace.
  • Identifies where traditional communication and marketing media may not be sufficient to provide the rapid response times and feedback needed.
  • Understands where social media or Web 2.0 technologies can enhance more traditional methods.

The 3e Factor can assist your organisation to develop and deploy social media tools. These initiatives will strengthen your ​organisation's ability to engage with your stakeholders, both internally and externally. Embracing social media can lead to increased stakeholder engagement and improved customer satisfaction.

Specific elements of a Social Media consultancy engagement may include:

  • Reviewing your existing communications and marketing programs and recommending appropriate Social Media technologies to enhance them.
  • Presenting to key staff on Social Media tools, focussing on areas of application to your environment.
  • Facilitating the development of a Social Media strategy to meet the specific needs and characteristics of your target audiences.
  • Providing advice on the organisational environment necessary to support a successful Social Media program.
  • Overseeing the roll-out of Social Media initiatives.

Knowledge Transfer

The 3e Factor approach to effective Knowledge Transfer for sustainable business transformation:

  • Recognises that the Subject Matter Experts in an organisation have a strong understanding of business-critical issues.
  • Understands that the ability of an organisation to share knowledge across functional boundaries is often critical to success.
  • Identifies the barriers reducing the effectiveness of Knowledge Transfer.
  • Addresses areas where improvements to existing training, content management or communications initiatives can increase the success of business transformation processes.
  • Identifies where the use of Web 2.0 and other technologies can enhance Knowledge Transfer.

The 3e Factor can assist your organisation to develop an integrated, managed knowledge transfer program. This program will strengthen your ​organisation's ability to deliver the knowledge, communication and learning needed by your staff to fulfil their accountabilities.  It will optimise efficiencies, and effectively meet customer demands. 

Specific elements of a Knowledge Transfer consultancy engagement may include:

  • Determining the optimal knowledge transfer tools to meet the specific needs and characteristics of your target audience.
  • Developing and providing advice on multi-media communication and learning tools, including templates, face-to-face, web-based, and Web 2.0 technologies.
  • Developing a behavioural program to encourage knowledge sharing.
  • Providing advice and developing business requirements for an integrated document management system, including governance and taxonomy strategies.
  • Putting in place a set of tools and business processes to assist with developing and maintaining currency of content.

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Outcomes and Change Management

The 3e Factor approach to Outcomes and Change Management is based on a redefinition of success in business transformation. It expands the focus beyond delivering projects or initiatives on time and on budget to include the delivery of outcomes or value desired from the activities and initiatives.

This expanded view incorporates four key principles:

  • Beginning at the end - focussing on outcomes.
  • Moving from a project view to an initiative view.
  • Managing at the portfolio level.
  • Imposing discipline - governance, measurement, and accountability.

What is the Initiative View?

The 3e Factor initiative view starts from two basic premises:

  • Isolated project views are not sufficient to produce the required business outcomes, even if all projects could be evaluated based on business results.
  • All of the additional activities and projects that are necessary and contribute to achieving results need to be identified.

This view ensures that all the activities and capabilities required to achieve desired outcomes are identified, including:

  • Business projects (for example, process redesign, restructuring).
  • Technology projects.
  • Legislative, policy, regulatory, and directive changes.
  • Organizational changes needed.
  • Intermediate outcomes that provide capabilities to be exploited for business outcomes.

The initiative view takes a big picture perspective - how the pieces are linked together and how people and/or places in the organization are affected.

This allows organizations to thoroughly plan, organize, and manage the initiative because the technology, organization, processes, and people have been evaluated in terms of how they fit together.

What is the Focus?

The 3e Factor approach focusses on:

  • Realising benefits, not just providing deliverables.
  • Supporting project, portfolio, program and initiative levels.
  • Supports an enterprise approach.
  • Adjusting and resetting priorities along the way.
  • Detailing and assigning accountabilities.
  • Facilitating on-going and post project evaluation of hard and soft benefits.

Critical Success Factors

The 3e Factor approach is based on the following factors that are critical to success in Outcomes and Change Management:

  • Aligning outcomes with business and organisational priorities.
  • Articulating both the business and IT outcomes.
  • Engaging all stakeholders in the process.
  • Providing flexibility in defining intangible or soft benefits.
  • Conducting Outcome Management early in the lifecycle.
  • Integrating Outcome Management with existing methods, frameworks and tools.
  • Establishing champions, high performance teams, education and effective communication.
  • Overcoming systemic organisational challenges.
  • Conducting cost-benefit analysis to document areas for cost avoidance.
  • Conducting options analysis.
  • Providing clear definition of soft benefits.

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