Aligning the Organisation

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• The Collaborative Business Experience®
  • The Four Dimensions of Collaboration
    • Overview
    • Targeting Value
    • Mitigating Risk
    • Optimising Capabilities
    • Aligning the Organisation

Imagine that you are creating an entirely new, centralised purchase-to-pay system that requires full cooperation from divisions of your company spread around the country or around the globe. Do you create the system first, and then work to get buy-in from all the divisions? Not if you’re living the Collaborative Business Experience. The key word here is collaborative. To be effective and to get better, faster, more sustainable results, the different parts of an organization need to be part of the process from the outset, and the leaders need to understand the goal and work toward it from the outset. That is what our Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE) is designed to do.

Projects often fail to provide lasting value because there is a lack of communication and consensus within the organisation  This failure can result from a number of causes, but knowing what might inhibit successful implementation can accelerate the realisation of project value. Some of the inhibiting factors can include:

• “Not invented here” syndrome.
• Ongoing internal debate over the initiative.
• Internal rivalries and conflicts.
• Skepticism about collaborating with anyone outside the organization.

Capgemini understands the challenges that these issues create, and we work side-by-side with our clients to transcend them. 

Client comments on this approach

“We have been able to create a single vision between dealers and the numerous company functions, backed by senior executive support, all in record time.” (Manager, Large Global Vehicle Manufacturer)

“Capgemini and the ASE helped us achieve the results we wanted and provided us with an opportunity to build a common vision and alignment. We were able to accelerate our unified financial function by a period of several months.” (CFO, Asset Management and Insurance Company)

“Awesome process. This would have taken months or years. We came here with Product Operations being a conglomeration of groups and left as a coherent organization.” (Vice-President of Process Sciences, Biotech Firm)