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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

 

  • Identified, defined and aligned best practices across source to settle business solution suite for enterprise companies across industries.

  • Created best practice framework that combines people, processes, data and technology into a unified approach.

  • Conducted best practice education and working session for SRM processes at global distribution leader.

  • Conducted best practice research for value chain business processes, and published advisory reports on moving from laggard to top performer.

  • Led best practice process design and implementation projects for global 1000 companies.

Industry Best Practices
Solution Strategy Review/Creation

 

  • Created a strategic planning framework and supporting tools to evaluate alternative business approaches and strategies.

  • Conducted "Blue Ocean" strategic analysis that refocused go-to-market approach for technology products company and identified adjacent industry targets.

  • Conducted Business Process Rengineering effort for global consumer food products company across multiple business units.

  • Prepared process automation strategy to align with business objectives and accelerate ROI.

Solution Strategy Review/Creation
Solution Evaluation Guidance

 

  • Created a solution evaluation framework and scoring system to support solution evlaution projects.

  • Conducted solution suite landscape reviews for suply chain, spend management and sustainability solutions.

  • Conducted feature and process level solution evaluations.

  • Conducted competitive evlaluations and analysis across industries and geographies.

  • Created industry-specific business process requirements and value analyses.

Solution Evaluation Guidance
Industry and Solution Trends

 

  • 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.

  • Conducted research on supply chain strategies for transportation, planning, warehousing, sourcing, procurement, EIPP, SCM vendor landscapes.

  • Conducted research on supply chain finance, supply chain risk.

  • Conducted research  on green supply chain topics.

  • Conducted research  on retail industry topics.

  • Spoke at client and industry events on solution trends.

  • Conducted professional services engagements around requirements, solkution evaluation/selection, implementation.

Industry and Solution Trends
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