Enterprise Information Management (EIM) is one of the fastest growing areas for business leaders and CIOs. The explosion of unstructured information (MS Office documents, PDF, email, Text, Social Media, etc.) in enterprises and the lack of its management is not only a big source of worry for business leaders but also a security and a compliance risk. Moreover, the advent of cloud based storage solutions has added yet another dimension of complexity.

Forward-thinking business and technology leaders view Enterprise Information Management as an opportunity and not a burden.

An opportunity to improve productivity, increase process automation, reduce costs, and improve compliance. Companies that have thought through how to create enterprise value from unstructured information are ones that can successfully execute them as business transformation efforts and truly create economic value.

The foundation of SapperOne’s approach towards enterprise information management is one where we tie enterprise value creation to business processes that get affected by unstructured information. We have built a repository of ‘social business processes’ that can be optimized to deliver true value. These social business processes are built in such a manner that enterprises can deploy them in phases or individually – either way, compressing deployment time.

Whether you have already embarked on your EIM journey or just starting out, our service offerings can help accelerate your value realization. We bring expertise in the following areas:

Assessments

Social business processes are at the heart of your organization’s ability to deliver value. When exploring how EIM can add value to your company, you need to understand what social business process activities you need to analyze, modify, and transform.

Our assessment services focus on uncovering where the real opportunities and roadblocks for EIM initiatives reside in your organization. We use our process repository to rapidly come up to speed on your business operations, interview cross functional teams, identify current initiatives, review and quantify data, and compare them against leading practices to define impacts across the value chain.

Sample assessment studies have included:

• Strategic Analysis
• Social business procedure audit for value creation
• Best practices benchmarking

EIM Strategy Development

A corporate EIM strategy needs to be practical, yet comprehensive. It needs to be tied to business activities that assess areas where EIM can make a positive impact – increase revenue, decrease costs, and mitigate risk.

SapperOne focuses on a results driven strategy. We focus on building a long term plan that aligns with operational strategies, but also enables executing in small bursts in the short term. Our strategy development focuses on evolutionary (not revolutionary) adoption of EIM principles. Some of our strategy development services are:

• EIM strategy formation and roadmap development
• Social business process design
• EIM change management and adoption strategy formulation

The figure below is a dashboard view of one of our accelerators which we use on engagements to help formulate the right strategy for each business function without losing focus on how each function contributes to value creation.

EIM Program Implementation

Even leading corporations occasionally find themselves saddled with poor performing projects or programs. This occurs for a variety of factors – you have a day job to perform in addition to the program you are managing, inadequate stakeholder alignment, poor planning, lack of resources, lack of accountability, and so on. EIM related programs are no exceptions.

SapperOne is known to bring focus and energy to programs while leading them to successful completion. Our program managers are experienced and immediately roll up their sleeves and get down to work with you in planning and executing program activities. We are experienced, professional project leaders with a ‘can-do’ attitude. Some of our EIM program implementation focus areas are:

• Day-to-day program management and execution
• EIM framework development and deployment
• Platform Implementation
• Change management and adoption execution

EIM Education and Coaching

EIM as a business practice is an evolving concept. Some organizations are well on their way to adopting these principles and some are just starting out. Regardless of where you are in your EIM evolution, you and your employees need to have a clear understanding for how to explore business activities to drive business results.

Our workshops are designed to quickly help you come up to speed on EIM and value creation. They are practical, with examples from real life case studies, and focus on how to leverage social business processes to derive business value. They are designed to quickly ramp-up employees and business leaders alike. Our EIM education and coaching services include:

• EIM workshops
• EIM principles training
• Leadership and team coaching