Results - Solution Users
Skilled in providing solution insight, best practice analysis and recommendations, solution evaluation guidance, and industry trends. With over twenty five years of experience as a consultant, strategist, solution evangelist, and technologist, Lighthouse emphasizes business process excellence through effective solution identification, selection and deployment.
Industry Best Practices
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Identified, defined and aligned best practices across source to settle business solution suite for enterprise companies across industries.
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Created best practice framework that combines people, processes, data and technology into a unified approach.
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Conducted best practice education and working session for SRM processes at global distribution leader.
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Conducted best practice research for value chain business processes, and published advisory reports on moving from laggard to top performer.
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Led best practice process design and implementation projects for global 1000 companies.
Industry Best Practices
Solution Strategy Review/Creation
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Created a strategic planning framework and supporting tools to evaluate alternative business approaches and strategies.
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Conducted "Blue Ocean" strategic analysis that refocused go-to-market approach for technology products company and identified adjacent industry targets.
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Conducted Business Process Rengineering effort for global consumer food products company across multiple business units.
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Prepared process automation strategy to align with business objectives and accelerate ROI.
Solution Strategy Review/Creation
Solution Evaluation Guidance
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Created a solution evaluation framework and scoring system to support solution evlaution projects.
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Conducted solution suite landscape reviews for suply chain, spend management and sustainability solutions.
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Conducted feature and process level solution evaluations.
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Conducted competitive evlaluations and analysis across industries and geographies.
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Created industry-specific business process requirements and value analyses.
Solution Evaluation Guidance
Industry and Solution Trends
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As the VP/Group Director of Research for Supply Chain, Spend Management, Retail and Sustainability at the Aberdeen Group, I helped define the challenges, pain points and solution values that companies should focus on, and what best-in-class can achieve.
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Conducted research on supply chain strategies for transportation, planning, warehousing, sourcing, procurement, EIPP, SCM vendor landscapes.
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Conducted research on supply chain finance, supply chain risk.
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Conducted research on green supply chain topics.
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Conducted research on retail industry topics.
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Spoke at client and industry events on solution trends.
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Conducted professional services engagements around requirements, solkution evaluation/selection, implementation.