Metapraxis
Helping you manage the future
CEOs, CFOs and other senior executives are charged with the task of improving the future performance of their businesses.
To achieve this they need to have forward-looking management information that provides insight into future performance risks.
While data warehouses and business intelligence tools provide the building blocks for a solution, experience shows that their implementation needs to be driven by a top-down business vision if these senior management needs are to be met.
Bringing information alive
Metapraxis can help you to make very rapid improvements to the business relevance and future focus of your management information by:
Business expertise
Metapraxis specialises in assisting large companies with business-focussed projects such as:
In-house partnership
Our techniques involve rapidly delivering best-of-breed analyses of your own management information, using your existing data repositories from software vendors such as Hyperion, Cartesis, OutlookSoft, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle and Cognos.
We help you to turn this data into actionable management messages that diagnose and display the key issues requiring attention.
By working in partnership with your finance and systems professionals, we help them to provide you with very rapid visibility into this data and its likely future trends.
We employ state of the art technology to deliver an immediate working prototype. This becomes a vehicle for learning-by-doing, enabling your managers to identify the capabilities that will deliver the most value to your business.
Developing this prototype does not impact upon your in-house IT resources because the initial business diagnoses are created on an outsourced basis.
Once you have chosen the diagnoses that are the most effective at identifying key issues within your business, you can then engage us to work with your project team to ensure that these forward-looking analyses are successfully embedded into your in-house company project.
Next steps
1. We recommend that a sponsoring director should take on the role of project champion.
2. A short initial meeting or telephone conference call can identify whether our techniques will be of assistance to you.
3. We then sign a strict Non-Disclosure Agreement and investigate your current management data.
4. We apply our expertise to answer the key questions about your company's performance that you have identified with us. This will usually result in the construction of a forward-looking 'Proof of Principle' solution grounded in your business questions.
5. If you are confident that the completion of this prototype will meet your needs, we will then work with your staff to implement it using their preferred technology.
The 'Proof of Principle' prototype at step 4 can usually be delivered within 2-3 working weeks of our initial meeting with you.
For further information, contact Andrew Mosely, our Chief Operating Officer: info@metapraxis.com
Helping you manage the future
CEOs, CFOs and other senior executives are charged with the task of improving the future performance of their businesses.
To achieve this they need to have forward-looking management information that provides insight into future performance risks.
While data warehouses and business intelligence tools provide the building blocks for a solution, experience shows that their implementation needs to be driven by a top-down business vision if these senior management needs are to be met.
Bringing information alive
Metapraxis can help you to make very rapid improvements to the business relevance and future focus of your management information by:
- Anticipating and understanding the key questions that you ask about performance
- Adapting our sector-specific techniques to answer these questions in the most intuitive way
- Delivering a working prototype within a matter of days
- Working with your finance and IT teams to embed this solution within their existing tools.
Business expertise
Metapraxis specialises in assisting large companies with business-focussed projects such as:
- Performance Benchmarking: Where are the improvement opportunities?
- Avoiding Profit Warnings: What are the risks of an earnings shock?
- Identifying Turning Points: Which of our markets have peaked?
- Business Driver Analysis: What is driving our bottom-line success?
- Market Impact Assessment: Where should we invest for the greatest gain in market share?
- Working Capital Reduction: What is the size of the prize?
- Incoming CEO/CFO Review: What are the top priorities in my new job?
- Retailing and Distribution
- Manufacturing
- Consumer Goods
- Banking
- Insurance
- Professional Services
In-house partnership
Our techniques involve rapidly delivering best-of-breed analyses of your own management information, using your existing data repositories from software vendors such as Hyperion, Cartesis, OutlookSoft, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle and Cognos.
We help you to turn this data into actionable management messages that diagnose and display the key issues requiring attention.
By working in partnership with your finance and systems professionals, we help them to provide you with very rapid visibility into this data and its likely future trends.
We employ state of the art technology to deliver an immediate working prototype. This becomes a vehicle for learning-by-doing, enabling your managers to identify the capabilities that will deliver the most value to your business.
Developing this prototype does not impact upon your in-house IT resources because the initial business diagnoses are created on an outsourced basis.
Once you have chosen the diagnoses that are the most effective at identifying key issues within your business, you can then engage us to work with your project team to ensure that these forward-looking analyses are successfully embedded into your in-house company project.
Next steps
1. We recommend that a sponsoring director should take on the role of project champion.
2. A short initial meeting or telephone conference call can identify whether our techniques will be of assistance to you.
3. We then sign a strict Non-Disclosure Agreement and investigate your current management data.
4. We apply our expertise to answer the key questions about your company's performance that you have identified with us. This will usually result in the construction of a forward-looking 'Proof of Principle' solution grounded in your business questions.
5. If you are confident that the completion of this prototype will meet your needs, we will then work with your staff to implement it using their preferred technology.
The 'Proof of Principle' prototype at step 4 can usually be delivered within 2-3 working weeks of our initial meeting with you.
For further information, contact Andrew Mosely, our Chief Operating Officer: info@metapraxis.com
Client benefits
"As financially qualified people you can easily delude yourself that your colleagues are equally comfortable with masses of financial data, but the reality is that you can't have effective operational control if you don't understand the fundamental trends. Graphical representation really wakes people up."
FTSE 250 CFO
FTSE 250 CFO
"We use the techniques developed with Metapraxis as a dialogue generator, not just a measurement tool."
CFO, UK Retailer
CFO, UK Retailer
"This is a very powerful way of incisively summing up the progress of a country - or the lack of it - rather than going out empty-handed and having to rely solely on the local management perspective."
Executive Director, Global Agrochemicals Company
Executive Director, Global Agrochemicals Company