A new path to value creation
A smart way to transform insights into action
"openaxyz™ is a leadership development method and software tool which promotes strategic thinking and teaches executives and managers to think about the strategy and how to execute it.”
Head Group Sourcing, Barclays
Building a smarter business by design
All business leaders know there is a gap between their organization’s ability to develop a strategy and their ability to execute it. International research highlights that organizations lose between 20% and 40% of their potential performance while trying to implement their strategy.
Developed to address the root causes of execution challenges, openaxyz™ introduces an agile and innovative approach to smart consulting and business management through a collaborative technology platform supported by a dynamically integrated strategy design and implementation methodology.
The openaxyz™ proprietary methodology incorporates the practical application of design thinking, social collaboration technologies and visual intelligence, such as dashboard design via the openaxyz™ web toolset – relinking strategic thinking and the behaviors required to successfully execute and improve performance.
Executives and consultants apply the openaxyz™ toolset to support strategic conversations and activity based business planning and management. Integrative thinking enables, enhances and extends services to clients that demonstrate a tangible return on their consulting investment. It delivers high impact results and clear differentiation of services. Client needs are addressed in a very unique and value contributing way.
For a demonstration of how openaxyz™ addresses your most critical business issues or to discuss association
contact Manie Eagar at +1(416) 986-8785 or manie@pacts.info
Key benefits & features
“We are very excited about how openaxyz will help us differentiate our innovation hub.” Director, Deloitte Consulting
Four strategy execution pillars - a dynamically integrated business strategy mapping and execution toolset. Apply openaxyz™ for:
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Integration: Integrate actions and simplify data to save cost and time (create efficiencies
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Alignment: Activate the right activities and the right resources (connecting the dots)
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Decision support: Direct and lead with effective and credible decision making
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Engagement: Engage internal and external stakeholders to improve commitment and productivity
client applications
Deep case studies and applications are embedded in the software demonstrating the value and impact of the openaxyz™ approach and method. openaxyz™ integrates and creates a presentation layer for the following functions:
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Strategy: Strategic direction, visualization, clarity & alignment
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Execution: Delivery framework & Action plans; Cascading, Business & Activity mapping, Structure & management; Reporting; Change management
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Business Model Generation and Rapid Prototyping
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Lean Six Sigma/Blue Ocean: Options Generation, Executive Decision making, Impacts Assessments
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Environmental Scans: SWOT360 and PESTEL maps & impact analysis
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Ownership: Activity based roles, accountability and responsibility
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KPI: Performance Development, Monitoring & Control (can be customized for CSV data imports)
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Balanced Scorecards and Dashboards (can be customized for CSV data imports)
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Business & Project Lifecycle Management
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Collaboration: Connected & networked teams & leadership
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Knowledge Management & Business Intelligence: Knowledge-value creation, reference & multimedia database; wikis and glossaries; embedded tutorials and case studies (customizable)
“I really like this software. We can apply it with our clients to support their technology governance strategies.” CEO, Ovum SA agency (Technology Research & Consulting Company
case studies & references
openaxyz™ has supported internal and external consultants, SMEs, agencies and large enterprise to enable rapid business turnaround, relinking strategies, and to reinforce and/or craft new paths to value. Clients have discovered a variety of applications for the openaxyz™ toolset to date:
Partnerships
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Deloitte Consulting South Africa: Enhancing the Human Capital and Strategy value proposition.
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PWC Consulting South Africa: Systems thinking centre design; national ICT projects support.
SMEs; Startups and Entrepreneurships; NGOs and Academia
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Strategic planning and execution of the Research, Innovation and Commercialization (RIC Centre) initiative of the Ontario government.
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Structuring business growth plans (Cleantech startup).
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Structuring new consulting offering to key clients (Management Consultancy).
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Strategic Blueprint and Scorecard for an Infrastructure Development Centre of Excellence deployment (Development Bank).
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Executive Education: Facilitate annual StraThink to validate vision for the future (Business School).
Enterprise and Government
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‘One Vision’ and ‘Route to A’ strategy execution to support an internal strategy & planning department (Finance).
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Strategy execution roadmap to 2020/50 and organizational design towards Functional Excellence (Energy).
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Total Quality Management Centre of Excellence capacity building, alignment and deployment (Utility).
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National ICT and knowledge economy 2020 strategy development (Department of Communications).
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SME practice strategy 2020, and new accounting training program (Chartered Accountant professional body).
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2020 human capital development and talent management strategy (Mining).
Business Integration
openaxyz™ incorporates and extends a range of business modelling and protoyping tools and is invaluable for impacts and scenario analysis and rapidly assessing a range of possible outcomes, roadblocks and accelerators for managed business performance.
Additional features such as an embedded knowledge base and case studies, a document repository, wiki, KPI creation, dashboard views, lifecycle management and visualization frames takes strategic decisionmaking to the next level.
Strategy from a to z
