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The Economist recently published an interesting article about what seems to be a new consolidation movement amongst the major strategy consulting firms and operations specialists in a effort to offer both strategy and execution services. Traditionally, within enterprises and throughout the consulting industry, strategy and operations initiatives have taken shape completely apart from one another. The author of the article paints a fairly stark contrast between strategy consultancies, which he characterizes as companies with highly-paid partners who whisper counsel into the ears of CEOs, and operations specialists — such as outsourcers and big consulting and accounting firms – who “employ armies of lower-paid grunts and tend to answer to the client firm’s finance or tech chiefs”.

At Troux, we’ve always viewed this type of thinking as problematic.  In order to run the most effective, agile, and productive organization, it is critical to bring business and technology decision makers together. By creating arbitrary divisions between ‘strategists’ and those actually responsible for execution, businesses risk potential inefficiencies, or worse, losing sight of the common goal.

Back to the article. The author notes there is some regulatory risk in this movement to consolidate; however, the fact that the world’s largest accounting and consulting firms are now performing acquisitions and developing plans to bring these disciplines together is important. Perhaps we were on to something after all. Enterprises the world over are now demanding a model that we’ve believed since our inception; one in which strategy and execution work hand in hand.

Troux has partnerships with consultancies and outsourcers large and small around the world, including ATOS, CSC, KPMG, Logicalis, PwC and many other well-known firms. These partners rely on Troux Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) solutions to connect business context to IT and help business leaders make smart strategy decisions. The result means executives gain clear line-of-sight across the entire IT landscape, better understand which assets are needed to function, operate and grow their business, and make well-informed investment and divestment decisions.

As consulting firms and IT outsourcers strive to evolve the business value they deliver and meet the demands of an increasingly complex enterprise customer, they are pointing to Enterprise Portfolio Management as a significant differentiator. EPM uniquely provides the contextual insight for the ‘connected enterprise’ enabling a sustainable way to improve agility, optimize investments and reduce risks — all benefits demanded by global enterprises today.

We knew all along that bringing the strategy and execution discussions together was a wise thing to do, but it’s always nice to see our approach validated by the biggest names in the industry.

Check out our OnDemand webinars and see how Troux customers such as Bayer, Cisco and Fidelity have successfully coupled business strategy and IT operations.

December 5^th is International Day of the Ninja. Sure, you can dress in black and carry around a set of nunchucks to play the part, but, we all know that’s just subterfuge. And, Halloween was a month ago. Instead, turn yourself into a decision-making ninja, a la Enterprise Portfolio Management (c’mon, you’re reading the Troux blog, you knew that was coming, right?).

We’re going to prepare you for the International Ninja Day by turning you into the decision-making ninja you’ve always dreamed of being – sorry, wall scaling not included.

Step #1: Laser Focus. The decision-making ninja’s laser focus let’s them hone in on the business questions that need to be answered to better function, grow, and compete in the marketplace. Troux’s tools and experts help professionals do just that with tools like the Troux Mind Map. The Mind Map remedies one of the biggest challenges we see in business today: identifying the most important questions the business needs to answer and effectively relaying that to the involved stakeholders, regardless of their business acumen and tech savvy. The Mind Map gets everyone speaking the same language, allowing business leaders to focus on what’s needed right now.  Learn more about this decision-making ninja tool by reading, You Don’t Have to be a Psychic to Read our Mind Map

Step #2:  Agility.  Agility means maximizing your time; the decision-making ninja accomplishes this by knowing what data they need, which isn’t easy. We see it happen all the time: pros get excited about all the data can gather and pretty soon they are sinking in information quicksand. Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) gives business decision-making the tools and resources to stay focused and agile, only capturing the data that’s needed.  No more, no less – the ninja way. Mitigate the information overload trap with these tips: How to avoid this common mistake with your EA program – Part III: Just say no to modeling the universe.

Step #3: Foresight.  At the end of the day, it’s all about getting to the answers that drive success. The first two steps make it possible to size up the situation – then, the decision-making ninja springs into action with the foresight gained. EPM helps leaders make more informed business and technology strategy decisions based on insights from the key areas that characterize their business.  For more on how EPM helps you better navigate the decision-making process read Doing the Right Thing vs. Doing Things Right. 

Happy Ninja Day. If you do wear all black to work on Thursday, please tweet us a picture. That’s just something we’d have to see.

For more information on Troux’s Enterprise Portfolio Management, please click here. 

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