Business Consulting and The Mechanism

During 2006, Encore Consulting acquired the assets of Innovus, Inc. and the process called The Mechanism. With that process, Encore started a robust and dynamic Business Consulting Practice.

Business Consulting integrates business prowess, process, people, and technology to create powerful solutions that enable your company's competitive performance. By unlocking the experience and creativity inherent within your company, unparalleled value is created by fueling innovative change that transforms how your company adopts, aligns, and leverages technology to materially improve performance.

Business Consulting by Encore integrates technology with business drivers. By composing a comprehensive enterprise-level storyboard and value map, the Business Consulting process called The Mechanism could pull in various technical competencies offered by Encore and its Alliance Partners. This is the start of a true service oriented architecture (SOA) that would give a client true on-demand solutions to critical issues.

The Mechanism. is an approach that facilitates enterprise-wide change and transformation. It has emerged over the last decade from an array of client experiences conducted in a spectrum of industries and has involved a wide range of business challenges.

The Mechanism. is comprised of five interrelated principles or gears that when applied to business scenarios unleash a dynamic flow of creative and innovative thinking. Those gears are

Envision – Defines and builds consensus on the desired destination and mission-critical business priorities while ensuring the framework of specific measurements and goals are established. This principle ensures a successful deployment of the endeavor.

Innovate – Using creative thinking techniques to foster break-through ideas, this principle develops the pathways needed to reach the destination and realize measured success.

Create – This principle details the specifications of the most desired pathway in terms of business process, organizational needs, application systems, and technology to develop a blueprint that includes the business, technical, and economic feasibility of the solution.

Mobilize – Using the detailed solution blueprint, this principle promotes the actual implementation of the solution.

Optimize – Once implemented, the material in this principle ensures that the solution is optimized with continuous enhancements and refinements as required by the business issues.

The consultants in this practice have numerous years of experience, both as senior managers and as industry consultants. Encore brings a proven performance to its client's engagements. Areas of thought-leadership and expertise include:

Enterprise Performance Management
Business Process Innovation and Management
Change and Transformation Management
Portfolio Optimization