For any large organisation, the potential benefits of using sophisticated modern systems and software technology can be very large, but also the likely costs of implementing such systems can also be significant. These technologies are seen as being much more complex and harder to understand, because relatively few people in industry have suitable experience to draw upon. Managers are aware that these systems inevitably reach deeper into how their organisations work, and may be nervous about the possible impact of these new systems on existing staff, processes and systems. For these reasons, many organisations find themselves unable to perform a thorough and effective analysis of the likely payback or return on investment from implementing these systems.
We have helped many organisations structure and carry out cost/benefit analyses, to help them decide whether it would be worthwhile for them to implement some new system. Such analyses should be broad enough to allow all the necessary stakeholders to express their concerns and hopes, and encompass the interactions of any proposed new systems with existing processes and systems. The analysis should be sufficiently detailed to give realistic information which is of real value in making the decision. At the same time, the analysis must be both affordable and deliver its results in a time frame to suit the organisation’s decision cycle.
Our wide experience of these systems and technologies and their application in the real world of business and commerce makes us ideally suited to support organisations design and carry out their own cost/benefit analysis. We have a solid track record of producing realistic estimates of the possible benefits of using optimisation tools in a business setting, which have then been proven by subsequent implementations.