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Formula for Successful Business Change

 

        What are the Reasons Forcing Re-Evaluation and Re-Engineering of Your Business Today?

• New Requirements?
• Tougher Economic Environment?
• Downsizing?
• Falling Prices?
• Lower Sales?
• Tougher Competition?
• Business Growth?

        What is your company doing about these issues?

The Formula for Successful Change requires a company to:

• Re-evaluate its business strategy and embrace new opportunities;
• Re-evaluate and change its internal procedures;
• Re-evaluate and change the systems that support the business changes.

To change and re-engineer your company takes extensive planning, strategizing, formulating, designing, negotiating and implementation.

Do you have enough people with the right skills and "acumen" to provide the necessary leadership, guidance and additional work effort to deliver this change, on time?

ACUMEN is a company focused on delivery and achievement of results.

ACUMEN understands the concept, the urgency and the specifics of what exists and what must be done.

ACUMEN can be a highly effective partner in the design and implementation of successful change through the various services it offers.

    1.  Business Consulting

        Covering the full spectrum of the operations and procedures necessary to formulate and deliver solutions for change including operations, marketing and sales, accounting, administration, internal procedures, execufi~information and business systems.

    2.  Computer System Consulting

        Analyze, modify or replace systems to support the business change - including project management, system design and development, systems analysis, specification, definition, implementation, documentation and training for new and modified systems.

        Develop corporate controls, decision support and executive management systems to assist in analyzing and managing the business.

        Implement packaged or custom software.

    3.  Sales and Marketing Consulting

        Develop strategic marketing and sales plans, programs and procedures to promote and support the business change both internally and externally.  Establish a unified image for the company to internal and external customers.

    4.  Software Products and Customized Solutions

ACUMEN Insurance System (AIS)

        A fully integrated, client-server-based, networked system that collects all enrollment data, rates the business, collects all claims and premium data and calculates multiple versions of renewals based on the information accumlated during the proceeding year.

        The system produces declarations pages tailored specifically to the selections of each insured and produces all of the internal and external documentation needed to initiate coverage.

        Rating is customized to each state/jurisdiction and is based on the specific actuarial formulae developed by each client we serve.

ACUMEN Meeting Analysis System (AMAS)

        A personal computer system to monitor staff committee involvement and their productivity. The system analyzes the costs and the effectiveness of committees against your company's goals and objectives and documents the relative return on investment achieved by the committees. The system is sold with or without the consulting service to conduct the study of your company's committees and provide the end results and cost-benefit-analysis to management.

 

Welcome to ACUMEN

        ACUMEN is a full service business consulting and software development company. We built a reputation on understanding clients' needs and providing the right-solutions-and-direction to benefit each client's business and profitability.

The reasons for our successful results and our clients' satisfaction is ACUMEN'S:

     Knowledgeable and experienced people
     Strong industry and application knowledge
     Ability to earn support ("buy-in") of internal employees, to achieve long-term client goals
     Record of results, on time and in budget

ACUMEN'S skill sets are:

     Analytical
     Managerial
     Financial
     Technical

Some of ACUMEN'S credentials are:

     Saved $1.1 million annually by reducing order backlog from 35 days to 1 day
     Saved $1 million annually by one operation within an insurance company
     Reduced implementation time for custom products from 4 months to 1 month
     Designed/implemented Financial, HR, EIS and Insurance/Rating software applications

 

 

For the Expertise and Resources

Douglas Phillips: (978) 462-4249