Connected Service

Information architecture presumes to serve the needs and address the challenges of business. We recognise that conventional wisdom speaks of the need for a cohesive strategy to develop the information capabilities of the organisation such that business information is available as-, when- and in the mode required by the business.
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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.
Many organisations are being pressed into finding additional sources of cost reduction, but often overlook cost recovery and even commercialisation opportunities. This strategy allows a cost-centre to be turned into a profit-centre over time.
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.
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.
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.
by Jame Healy on July 28, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Regardless of when and how the current economic “contraction” reverses itself, I think we can agree that the face of business as we know it is going to change… at least I’m hoping it does. I remember in the late 90’s, when I was an analyst for a venture capital firm, the number of “pimply-faced" self-styled entrepreneurs that woul...
by Stephanie Hayes, MBA on July 11, 2009 at 9:00 am
I recently read this article posted by Abbey Carpenter, describing the need for a specific set of characteristics in leadership in order to make a process improvement exercise viable and successful.Ms. Carpenter describes a number of process improvement methodologies, including Six Sigma and TQM, but I think the resounding message is that any proc...
June 4, 2009
We would like to congratulate Avantage consultant Aslam Jamal for being selected by Microsoft as the first SharePoint Virtual Technology Solution Professional (v-TSP) in Western Canada.