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Rick Ikebuchi

Senior Consultant

Rick’s education and training is in industrial engineering, but he is also a certified facilitator in change process management.

Service Integration into the Supply Chain

As one of the world's largest providers of third-party and logistics (3PL) services our client wished to be able to more fully integrate and align with the strategic vision and objectives of it's clientèle. After a brief assessment our recommendation was to pursue an integrated service strategy with the client in order to reduce transaction costs, improve service outcomes and to increase the overall volume of business with their customer base.

Daniel Gocsman appointed as Microsoft System Center Technology Solution Professional

September 4, 2009

Wewould like to congratulate Avantage consultant Daniel Gocsman for beingselected by Microsoft as the first Microsoft System Center Virtual TechnologySolution Professional (v-TSP) in Western Canada.

CSR as Competitive Advantage

by Dr. Richard (Rick) Goossen, Ph.D. on August 22, 2009 at 8:00 am

A key to sustainable competitive advantage is to link CSR to the strengths of the business. Michael Porter and Mark Kramer state in Harvard Business Review that if “corporations were to analyze their prospects for social responsibility using the same frameworks that guide their core business choices, they would discover that CSR can be much m...

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Beyond the Option of CSR

by Dr. Richard (Rick) Goossen, Ph.D. on August 19, 2009 at 8:08 am

The Economist noted last year that, “Company after company has been shaken into adopting a CSR policy: It is almost unthinkable for a big global corporation to be without one.” (Jan 17, 2008)

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Common Exception Management Framework

The Common Exception Management Framework is a technology-based solution that allows large organisations to centralise and consistently manage business exceptions including exceptions from internal business processes, system-to-system data integration and trading partner workflow and data integration.

Richard Smith to present at May 2009 Architect's Fellowship Event

May 20, 2009

Avantage Principal Consultant, Dr. Richard Smith, will be presenting on Wednesday, May 20 at 6:30 PMat the SFU, School of Communication, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, Room #2270.

April Facey joins Avantage Partners

May 1, 2009

We are pleased to announce today that April Facey has joined Avantage Partners as a senior consultant within the Connected Business practice.

Rick Goossen delivers Massive Keynote

April 1, 2009

The Massive Tech Show (http://www.massivetechshow.com/) is a one day event that shows companies with 1 to 250 employees how to embrace the power of technology.

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