| Strategy |
Our
business strategy practice works with a diverse portfolio of clients on
growth initiatives and improving enterprise value. We work
collaboratively, bringing innovative thinking, strong facilitation
skills, proven strategic frameworks, and implementation skills to help
our clients make their strategic planning goals a reality. We work with a
wide variety of companies to support their growth strategy, through
internal innovation, acquisitions, or both. We also support strategic
transformation within specific functional areas, often as a first step
in our broader service line efforts.
IMGV combine qualitative and quantitative
analysis to generate recommendations and, when requested, build a
roadmap that details how they can be best implemented in the context of
the client environment.
We also help corporations with strategic
planning by identifying key links between the operational realities of
their business and the dynamics of their particular industry. |
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| Global Marketing & Sales |
IMGV
supports companies in all industries in staying ahead of new market
developments, capturing new opportunities, and shaping markets. We work
collaboratively with our clients to drive transformative change and
profitable growth�while ensuring sustainable business success.
Borders are disappearing, economies remain
precarious and labour has become increasingly mobile. In this
environment, how do you oversee a global workforce, programs and systems
and maintain appropriate business practices in each country where you
have operations?
Our International MarketingConsulting
Group (IMCG) is the largest team in the industry focused specifically on
managing multinational challenges. Together, the IMCG and our local
teams work seamlessly with your headquarters to manage people and
financial issues consistently and efficiently across your global
operation. In addition to our technical capabilities, we know how to
respond to the complexity and risk that come with working in different
languages and cultures, with varying local requirements and changing
legislation. |
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| Talent & HR Services |
The war for talent doesn�t stop during a downturn �
it gets worse. Forward-thinking organizations use innovative
talent-management approaches to gain a competitive advantage, to help
them ride out the downturn and create a strong platform for recovery and
growth. Talent Management is a set of interwoven processes to attract,
develop, retain, and engage the best people. Your people � the lifeblood
of your organization � drive performance and results for your business.
Our talent business enables your talent business.
IMGV talent management framework � or talent wheel �
illustrates our holistic view of how various components influence one
another when we look at how to best manage the talent within an
organization. It depicts our belief that business strategy and talent
capability work together to drive performance. It also shows how
successful planning, deployment, and engagement can lead to more
effective service delivery. Using a tailored combination of improved HR
processes, increased business intelligence, and the right technology, we
can help you get to where you want to be.
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Talent Planning
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Instead of testing this theory on your organization�s most valuable
assets � your people � let Buck help you develop your strategic talent
plan so you�re always positioned with the right information to make the
best decisions for your business.
Solutions
Human capital strategy :
Develop an HR strategy that is driven by your organization�s overall
business strategy. Based on the HR goals, design and implement a
governance structure, a talent management approach, an HR delivery
service model and meaningful metrics.
Workforce planning: Provide strategic
and operational workforce planning and management to maintain a
workforce that supports the current needs and priorities of your
organization�s leadership as well as be proactive in supporting future
business goals. Determine how to reorganize, align, and create
efficiencies in your workforce through metrics including size, skills,
location, motivation, and price to make sure you spend your budget on
the right people at the right time.
High performer profile and measurement :
Define and isolate the specific factors that make your top performers
excel, use these results to create a high performer profile, and
quantify the expense and effectiveness of your organization�s efforts to
optimize high performers.
Vendor selection, management, and
oversight: Improve the quality of your vendor relationships by building
on your vendor�s strengths, identifying areas for improvement and
establishing and maintaining a framework for oversight and management
that supports your HR programs and service delivery.
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Talent Engagement
Basic economics tell us that
productivity is measured in output per worker and output per hour. You
don�t have to be an economics guru to know increased output from your
workforce means happy, engaged players who drive revenue. We can help
you increase the productivity of your workforce through increased
engagement, retention, and overall health.
SOLUTIONS
HR portals: Establish a
flexible platform that provides sophisticated user functionality and
covers all audiences and purposes. Incorporate new and existing
self-service tools to help drive desired workforce behaviours.
Talent pro@Work�: Deliver highly
targeted messages, personal data, and educational content to your
workforce in the medium preferred by each end user. At the same time,
reduce your administrative burden by streamlining the management and
maintenance of HR communication and automating manual processes.
Recommendation engines:
Improve HR, manager, and employee productivity by providing the
information and tools needed to promote greater self-service through
data and social-based recommendations.
Decision support: Develop systems that
help your workforce make better decisions about their careers with
streamlined data aggregation and information sharing.
Training: Design
structured onsite, classroom, one-on-one, and online training that
aligns employee education programs with change management initiatives
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Talent Deployment
We've developed a number of resources
for you as you consider how to keep your people engaged. Business units
may be increasing headcount, leadership may be under pressure to
optimize the workforce, or reorganization may be underway. There�s no
reason why your HR team shouldn�t be running like a well-oiled machine
to support these activities. Buck can ensure you minimize costs with
reduced day-to-day administration efforts, informed decision support,
and increased self-service.
SOLUTIONS
HR process and program design:
Transform your HR team into a high-performance, results-driven
organization through benchmarking, process improvement and program
assessment and design.
Change management:
Ensure change �sticks� by applying an art lens to change � assessing
your change readiness and stakeholder impact � and a science lens to
change � developing a phased plan, providing the right communications
and tools at precisely the right times and continuously measuring the
results.
Career pathing: Create a
job and role structure that aligns with your performance management
objectives and develop self-assessment processes for your employees
Employee lifecycle services:
Design on-boarding processes and technology solutions that drive
increased acculturation, acceptance, retention and off-boarding
solutions that ensure smooth redeployment and separation experiences. |
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| Organisation & Transformation |
| IMGV
helps organizations across most industries evaluate and address the
people-related costs, risks and challenges of corporate transactions,
from due diligence through full integration. We draw on our global
expertise in communication and change, talent management, reward
strategy and design, leadership, culture and project management. Our
insurance consulting business, which specializes in transactions for the
industry, draws on our deep industry knowledge and quantitative
expertise, with a focus on raising capital, due diligence and
restructuring. We collaborate seamlessly with other M&A advisors �
including bankers, lawyers, accountants and tax experts � analyzing
every aspect of a transaction to provide essential data, insights and
perspective for decision making and execution. |
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| Outsourcing Integration & Transition |
INTEGRATION
The dynamics in today�s fast-paced
industries are changing the scope of design outsourcing and contract
manufacturing in a way that enables every participant to focus on its
core competencies to achieve the fastest design and development cycles
possible while optimizing resources, assuring maximum yields, and
assuring product quality.
The next generation in industry
capabilities is driving an unprecedented convergence in both human
Capital and technologies and, by necessity, changing the way we view
traditional ways of doing business. With the innovations in technology,
increasing bandwidth, specialized manpower requirements and
ever-changing business models, it's no longer enough for one company�no
matter how large or small�to come up with a great idea, develop and
prove every aspect of the design, set up manufacturing processes or
service lines . While some of these outsourcing firms specialize in
assistance, more and more of them are realizing the benefit of having an
outsourcing team that can help to optimize the entire process.
We at IMGV develop an equilibrium
model in which the organization of firms is endogenous. Differentiated
products & services can be produced either by vertically integrated
firms or by pairs of specialized companies. Production of each variety
of consumers requires a specialized component. Vertically integrated
firms can produce services they need, but they face a relatively high
cost of governance. Specialized firms can produce at lower cost, but
search for partners is costly, and input suppliers face a potential
holdup problem. We study the determinants of the equilibrium mode of
organization when inputs are fully or partially specialized. We then
discuss the conditions for the existence of equilibrium with pervasive
vertical integration & the conditions for the existence of one with
pervasive outsourcing. We begin with a simple version of our model. In
the simplified model, intermediate inputs are fully tailored by the IMGV
executive team to a particular product or service line. There are many
benefits to moving beyond the basic in sourcing, out-tasking or
outsourcing of service including design & manufacturing to an
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TRANSITION
Transition management is a key aspect
of the process of outsourcing. Transition management should be priced
and form a part of the agreement between the outsourcer and the
purchaser and appear as a schedule to the agreement as new services.
IMGV helps organisation in planning and implementation of those new
services.
Our specialised team nurtures the
outsourcer from the starting point for detailed planning of transition
activities that will be the approach outlined by the outsourcer in its
proposal. It is likely that further discussions will be required with
the outsourcer to confirm the details and fully document the plan prior
to inclusion in the agreement. Our professionals understand that a
different transition approach may be required in the case of a new
service provision arrangement as compared with the transition from a
purchaser provided service.
A further issue will be the
redeployment or other options for existing staff. This area is often
overlooked by the purchaser and is an area that can cause problems long
after an agreement to outsource is signed. Redeployment should be seen
as part of the transition costs as it may involve severance payments and
possible Employment Court settlements if not handled correctly.
The outsource decision can have an
adverse impact on the morale and productivity of in-house employees due
to the worry of job loss and the possibility that the best people will
start looking for other jobs. The purchaser�s staff may be reluctant to
work for the outsourcer and resign, taking valuable institutional
knowledge with them. It will be critical for business continuity to be
maintained during the period between the time outsourcing is announced
and implemented.
The purchaser and the outsourcer
should have a strategy and plan for communicating with affected staff
and existing service organizations. This strategy may also need to
include a media plan that would seek to keep the public properly
informed to protect the purchaser�s brand and/or image. We believe that
Training of the outsourcer�s staff will also need to be considered in
the transition period.
The extent to which training of these staff is required may depend on :
� The scope of the services being established
� Any transfer of the purchaser�s staff to the outsourcer.
Who owns any assets associated with
the outsourced service needs to be established. If the outsourcer is
taking over existing assets from the purchaser, there may be a
requirement to formally accept these against a checklist of criteria
agreed with the purchaser. The acceptance process will also include the
purchaser monitoring the service delivery for a specified amount of
time, or a testing of all key procedures by the purchaser�s staff. The
purchaser must make the outsourcer aware of the existence of third party
contracts that may impact the way service is delivered.
IMGV ensures that once the purchaser
is satisfied that the appropriate standards are complied with and that
the service performance has reached the required levels, transition is
complete & the outsource service can be formally accepted. |
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| Strategic IT |
We
at IMGV Technology division aim to provide strategic benefit to the
customer with every technology solution that we implement. To achieve
this aim, in consultation with the client we sketch a picture of the
desired outcome. We then begin to piece together the technology puzzle,
making sure that every piece fits as it should. Throughout the
building process, we are mindful of the fact that the completed picture
must deliver direct strategic benefit to the customer.
IMGV Strategic IT Solutions creates
affordable, customized business technology strategies that solve
problems, enhance profits and enable work to flow quickly, flexibly and
securely. By taking advantage of the latest technologies, Strategic
Solutions can work with you to craft a solution that combines all
elements necessary to drive & support your business.
We leverage "big business" experience,
designs and relationships to provide comprehensive, cost-effective
services that are targeted to fill your needs. Our solutions allow
businesses - large and small - to benefit from the latest technological
trends to improve communications, increase sales, and be superior to the
competition.
Our purpose is to deliver significant
return on investment for our clients. We do this by leveraging our
unparalleled combination of experience, creativity, and talent. With
Strategic IT Solutions, you have confidence knowing that experts are
managing your technology needs, and all of your services will be
available when you need them. Simply said, we invest in technology so
you don't have to. |
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