Common Concerns

LEVEL I-“PROTECTING YOUR CREDIBILITY”

• How to respond to the CEO and/or boards of directors when project indicators are incorrect; and you are compelled to validate the existing approach and methodology
• Repeating strategies of the past with poor results; Vertex will help you rethink those strategies and gain the confidence from stakeholders
• When your Strategic Plan is deficient or requires better management of change
• When there are no precise and clear policy guidelines and you are left to make decisions or take actions that could jeopardize project s or risk the internal conflict among staff or upper management
• When you have a loss of morale and a negative organizational climate

SERVICES LEVEL I:

• Support for a proper interpretation of the indicators formulated in its cultural context by the executives or boards of directors (operational and financial),
• Propose complementary interpretations of corporate indicators, grounded with the variables of each company
• We utilize highest level and standards of business performance management methodology and techniques to support our clients in making the best decisions, and
• We encourage internal analysis, constructive debate and effective and consistent decision-making approaches and techniques, avoiding embarrassing inconsistencies and errors that could place the company or organization at risk of failure.
• Executive presentations often reflect incorrect or faulty indicators that provide faulty assumptions and therefore impacting targets, goals and objectives. Vertex consultants intervenes in these situations and identifies the faulty indicators and works with the responsible manager or executive to rectify the error and make the appropriate changes in the presentation to the benefit of all parties involved.
• Satisfactory performance indicators, show leadership and organizational capacity provide a respite, while rethinking “Business Management”
• We help our clients understand and appreciate existing organizational and environmental constraints, which are starting points for solving problems, reducing threats, effective strategic planning and maximizing potential opportunities.
• We help our clients focus attention upon operating cost, asset depreciation and ways to improve investment performance for optimal financial performance
• We work to provide the best data and information for executive presentations, so you achieve consistency and project your best image internally and externally.

LEVEL II-“ACCOMPANYING EXECUTIVES”

• Often executives and managers have difficulty simultaneously assimilating all performance indicators
• Also it also important to be aware that some good indicators affect the achievement of other metrics
• Examples: Increase inventories to meet production / targets, incurring other financial costs; incurring in one indicator, but regressing in another
• Exchange differences, regarding currency U.S. $, affects financial performance
• We help you must persuade the Central Office, CEO or board of directors on necessary projects; optimize financial alternatives
• We help you to develop contingency plans that look to increase cost for depreciation of new assets,
• We help you to realize and appreciate the often overlooked strategic contributions of a “Project Portfolio”
• When no one within the organization or company structure appropriately manages or understands the concept of “Project Portfolio”, we work to provide the necessary training and guidance to implement state of the art project portfolio administration of your projects.

SERVICES (LEVEL II):

• We establish internal management tools that provide for better organizational and project effectiveness and efficiency
• We provide balanced planning, identifying and uncovering any negative trends in the performance indicators (business and management)
• We collaborate to support or build communications strategies that strengthen emerging leadership; and its capacity to be successful
• We help to improve budgeting projections by assisting companies to negate adverse impact of the exchange rate differential (U.S. $) on business and budget indicators
• We provide technical assistance to create or strengthen existing project portfolios, aligned with the company’s strategic plan
• We bring knowledge and experience in project management, best practices promulgated by the “Project Management Institute” (PMI)
• We provide expert council PMP (“Project Management Professionals”) certified by PMI (“Project Management Institute” USA).

LEVEL III-“ALIGNMENT OF EXECUTIVES A BUSINESS STRATEGY”

• Need to define alignment with the Corporate Strategic Plan (CEO)
• Optimize results and reflect the desired image when presenting high-level strategies
• Overcome cultural barriers and being secure and confident when making executive presentations
• When they are restricted in their desire to increase the “workforce”
• When they require an understanding of the potential of “outsourcing”, costs vs. benefits
• When traditional policies do not prevent recurrent conflicts and wise and strong leadership is required to resolve or address the problem
• When audit report corrections are required and preventive actions need to be installed

SERVICES (LEVEL III):

• We provide concrete proposals to each situation analyzed and help to acquire the necessary resources to assist the executives, managers, directors or board members at the highest or mid-level, as a result serves to contribute to increased self-confidence and performance
• We provide knowledge on the style and culture of the business environment due to our diversity of consultant staff resources. We speak can provide the necessary “business language” and help the organization and its leaders to display and express themselves in a positive and convincing manner
• We contribute to the development of bargaining power, to safeguard the best results expected by executive leadership
• We offer “outsourcing” resources in various fields, positively contributing to the “workforce” of your business
• We support and facilitate the design of effective and enhanced agreements that encourage optimal cooperation of all parties and stakeholders that help you to meet your company’s expectations

  Contracts and agreements are often signed without knowing the risks involved and incorporating the correct clauses that can protect and secure projects and the organization or companies bottom-line.

LEVEL IV -“STRATEGIC PLANNING”

• When organizations lack strategic direction or the inability to adapt when necessary
• Frequent and sporadic changes in the scope of the enterprises projects or strategic plans
• Conflict of interest between stakeholders
• Un-reconciled differences in the vision and mission
• Projects that do not advance the primary goals and objectives
• Inadequate and/dysfunctional communication management
• Failure to set calendars
• Excessive costs, regarding estimates and / or budget
• When an organization has lost its way, in implementation of strategic plans and projects

SERVICES (IV):

• We focus on analysis of “stakeholders” and related communication strategies
• We guide the organization in analysis: the SWOT, Vision, Mission and Values assessment
• We contribute to remove, reshape, or magnify the values of the organization
• We help to identify ways that company values should be modeled
• We support and facilitate “SMART” management techniques
• We recommend specific strategies and tactics, based on effective Strategic Plans
• We provide support in shaping the Portfolio (Strategic Projects)
• We conduct financial evaluation and analysis new and existing projects.

LEVEL V -“STRATEGIC DEPLOYMENT”

• We identify human resource potential within your organization and help to create the infrastructure and environment necessary mentor, train and promote these individuals to higher and more responsible positions within your organization
• We support and provide technical assistance to all those responsible for the overall institutional performance; and seek to expedite the process of advancing the mobility of emerging leaders, managers or executives
• We ensure that the strategic implementation of projects and organizational development objectives are in effectively progressing and that managers, supervisors, line personnel and support staff is vested and sufficiently aware of the mission, vision, goals, role and responsibility they have in overall success.
• The executives have not yet reached the active domain of business documentary
• We help develop an Internal Training Program that identifies and moves to develop and establish a standard and expectation for emerging executives and future leaders of the organization
• We help organizations identify necessary partnerships to support business strategy and seeks and work with them to obtain and retain reliable support
• Management of organizational change is complicated and Vertex seeks to promote optimal management with reliable partners and the technical assistance and guidance of from our talented and diverse team of consultants

SERVICES (V):

Our consultants provide a comprehensive analysis to identify all possible avenues that we can improve your organizational and business performance

• We help you resolve unsatisfactory progress or insufficient results in projects or programs
• We conduct a comprehensive diagnosis and evaluate the best means to optimize organizational and business processes and internal operations, services and production
• We conduct an evaluation / helping you to define and clarify internal business rules and procedures respective of implementation strategy
• We conduct and provide state of the art and dynamic interactive workshops, that foster commitment, reinforce institutional and individual values, build teamwork, enhance interpersonal and departmental relationships, clarify vision and increase employee morale
• We provide technical assistance and support to enhance effective organizational change management (Active Management Behavioral)
• We provide assistance to effective development and management of project portfolis and related programs.