Our Vision and Mission for your Digital Success
We advance sustainability with digital solutions for the global Circular Economy.
We connect the dots.
connect: “associate or relate (something) in some respect”
By piecing together bits of information we are looking for connections between items and analyze their interdependencies. This yields greater insights for our clients and often reveals information previously hidden or unknown.
We provide the big picture.
big picture: “the entire perspective on a situation or issue”
There is more to every story than the details one can capture in a given moment. Our way of considering the future, thinking of alternatives, bringing in parallel ideas or contradicting opinions helps us to develop overarching ideas with our clients.
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Our Methodology for digital success
The key success factors for transformation
People
People are the most valuable assets of any organization. Especially when entering the digital era, when talking about artificial intelligence or considering process automation, people are and will remain a critical success factor.
It’s the knowledge, skills and capabilities of its workforce that will determine the results of any organization. It’s the culture, agility, responsiveness and willingness to take risks that will decide upon the success of a transformational endeavour.
Leadership is the pivot point in a strategic transformation. By instilling trust and motivation into the organization leaders can create conviction and commitment to change. Nurturing a culture of open innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit can urge teams on to reach new goals and propel success.
That’s why people are on the center stage of SynoptiCons’ consulting approach. Because we know that not only performance, but organizational health will outperform our client’s competitors.
Processes
A process is a series of actions performed to accomplish a desired result. In essence, processes are at the core of any activity, of our daily life and by far not only in business endeavours. One might even view life as such a process.
Especially in business context, processes ought to be effective and efficient. Too often business processes are equated with support activities (such as back office, accounting, etc.), seen as kind of no-brainers that need to run with minimum effort in order not to disturb “the business”.
Looking beneath the surface there is much more to processes than just “getting it done”. Processes can grow revenue, processes can improve customer experience, processes can facilitate innovation and processes can spark employee motivation, just to name a few of the marvels of processes.
At SynoptiCons we are passionate about designing, implementing and continuously improving processes that fit our clients’ needs and create sustainable value.
Technology
Technology is all around us. Still it can be hard to describe what technology is. Is a water faucet considered technology? Or a lighter? A robot? Obviously, the level of required technology depends on the objective to accomplish.
For igniting a candle a lighter will do. For igniting a skyrocket a more sophisticated technology is needed. It even gets more complicated when we have to decide how to employ technology to run and improve businesses.
Organizations find themselves in an abundant offer of technological solutions. Not only in operations, but also in support and administration they are trying hard to find the right tools to support their needs.
At SynoptiCons we are constantly monitoring technological trends, especially in the arena of digital tools. We know that employing the right technology can be decisive for the progress our clients make. Do they just want to light a candle? Or plan a moonshot?
Data
A collection of facts, measurements, characters, numbers or any other information is what we commonly consider data. Literally everyone has lots of it, but far less know how to employ it to their advantage.
Once the essence of science and research, data has turned into the fundamental groundwork of all kinds of organizations. Even more, data has become a field of science itself, steadily evolving and creating new opportunities.
Understanding data, processing it, visualizing and communicating it are key capabilities every business should foster to stay their ground in competition. It’s not always about using the most sophisticated approach to data science, but often about being data-minded and taking informed decisions based on reliable data.
We at SynoptiCons work with our clients in developing their individual way of creating value from data. With our broad experience in data management and advanced analytics, we support them in unleashing the potential of data and go from holding a plain data sink to becoming a data driven organization.
Our Digital Success Stories
We make it happen
CRM and advanced analytics
The implementation of a CRM application has enabled better customer service and significantly enhanced upselling.
Experience shows that sales teams over time tend to develop very particular ways of working within an organization. Also, it’s not uncommon that people leaving a sales team do not only take good memories, but also data about customers and sales with them.
To minimize these risks and with the primary goal to get a holistic overview of interactions with customers, our client, a mid-sized multinational non-food wholesaler, intended to revamp the sales processes and asked for our support in structuring and conducting the related activities.
“Sales is a kind of art, not a process which you can improve systematically”, was the prevailing opinion upon in the first workshop we conducted with the sales team. It was obvious for nearly all team members that the status-quo is optimal and no change was required.
Our experience handling complex change management projects, our skills in the digital environment as well as the strong backup of our client’s management finally resulted in the design and implementation of new processes, together with a CRM application to be used by all sales team members.
Once implemented and connected to meaningful usage metrics the adoption rate was excellent, user feedback was good and feedback indicated that the new CRM tool with its advanced predictive analytics has helped our client to boost upselling and to enter into a new era of providing customer service.
Online recyclability assessment tool
An application helps producers and distributors to assess the recyclability of products and materials.
Sustainability is the license to operate in many sectors. Climate change and other adverse environmental effects have led to a paradigm change in certain industries.
A specific field of interest is the assessment of recyclability of products and materials, driven by the idea that goods with higher recyclability will help to minimize environmental burden.
Our client, a medium sized international player in the field of circular economy, has identified a business opportunity in this field, intending to market an online assessment tool for recyclability.
With our combined experience in the field of circular economy and digital tools we supported the project through all phases and achieved a marketable version of the application within record time. In addition, we tackled the challenge of the diverse national legal and regulatory requirements in the different countries in order to create a truly multinational tool.
The result is a tool that is capable of assessing materials according to multiple countries’ national recyclability standard. On top it stands out for its unique data model, enhanced user experience and superb reporting capabilities that make the real difference in the business of our client and their customers.
Waste shipment monitoring
Shipments of waste are electronically tracked and monitored in a central online application.
As opposed to goods and services, the movement of waste across borders within the EU is restricted. Depending on the type of waste there are different regulatory mechanisms in place in order to prevent illegal dumping of waste in countries with more favourable economic conditions. Such shipments have to be notified to the national competent authorities and require a high level of operational attention.
Our client, a leading multinational waste management company, intended to implement a monitoring program for their waste shipments, in order to ensure full compliance with the mentioned requirements. At the same time they wanted to make use of the data collected to increase customer service levels and the logistics process efficiency.
Together with our client and based on our combined experience in the field of circular economy, supply chain and digital solutions we have designed, built and implemented a solution for tracking waste shipment vehicles in real time. This allows full online traceability of all vehicle activities through one central dispatch office.
Having an integrated view of logistics movements and the transportation path, while handling all documentation requirements automatically made a real step forward in the business of our client.
