Calling disruptor consultants
The consulting sector is as susceptible to the relentless forces of change as any other. Change earns fees, but we have to deal with it in our own organisations as well. We have established players who prosper with their traditional operating models, we have niche players who counter size with agility …and then there are the challengers who aspire to disrupt with new ways of working that they think will put them more in step with the needs of their market in today’s world.
Ironically, in consulting as in many other sectors, whilst technology is the driving force behind so much opportunity, it’s often also – in the form of legacy systems, ill-fitting ERP, technical debt and more – the biggest obstacle to taking full advantage of that opportunity. That’s why AptumX has come to the market, and it’s why we appeal to the disruptors, the innovators, the mould-breakers within the consulting community.
Imagine being able to deliver to your clients a digital model of their business in which all its components are integrated in a framework that replicates the real-life architecture of their organisation, and that facilitates real-time, automated, whole-of-business systems.
Imagine being responsible for the creation and maintenance of that model for your client, and being able to change it in near-real time with no risk of breakdown or failure: 100% scalable, 100% changeable, 100% integrity.
Imagine your client’s digital model progressively ingesting and orchestrating existing software applications and constantly adding new, high-performance functionality, with automated workflow eliminating mistakes and letting productivity soar.
Imagine being trusted by your client to provide them with advanced business systems knowledge that enables them to fully exploit the transformational promise of the AptumX Digital Twin Business framework.
AptumX’s vision is to become the engine-room of clients’ operations, supporting a real-time business whose systems integrate seamlessly both internally and across supply chains.
To achieve this we are partnering with consulting firms whose “mould-breaking”, “game-changing”, “challenger” rhetoric is matched by the long-term vision and practical commitment to a new way of working with clients.
Firms whose consulting services will enable them to implement continuous change, strategic and operational, at every level in the organisation.
Firms who have the confidence of their clients, current and prospective, to sell the concept of the Digital Twin Business Framework and to provide consulting services to leverage it for huge commercial benefit.
A whole new type of client – consulting relationship
Real-time automated business is coming. It’s a matter of how and when, not if. There are already thousands of small-scale automation applications but their potential has been constrained by the lack of an integrated, whole-of-business architectural framework. The AptumX Business Digital Twin provides that framework and, with it, the opportunity for forward-thinking consulting firms to open up a whole new type of long-term relationship with their clients.
The Business Digital Twin
For decades, ever since computing arrived on the scene, business people have been frustrated by their reliance on technical IT folk to determine the systems on which the organisation runs. The Digital Twin solves this problem, enabling business people to take responsibility for the content of business systems, whilst their IT colleagues concentrate on making sure the systems run smoothly, and these internal skills are perfectly complemented by external consultants, with their breadth of knowledge spanning application of new technologies, best practice in and across industry sectors and now, how to optimise use of the Business Digital Twin.
The Business GP
Good consultants have a long-term relationship with their clients. They know their business intimately; they help them through good times and bad. For those old enough to remember it, or lucky enough to still be experiencing it, it’s rather like how the traditional family doctor operated. But unlike a GP, a consulting firm’s relationship with its client can involve many consultants over the years, and their effectiveness has been hampered by the lack of a dynamic, easy-to-use and understand fount of collective knowledge. This is what the Business Digital Twin provides, enabling a firm’s consultants to continually engage with the client with up-to-date knowledge of how the business works and its potential to change, without having to constantly update process documentation and knowledge bases. The Digital Twin enables a continuous relationship between consultant and client as they work together to create and to operate the real-time automated business.
The future of Business Software
Over the past half century we’ve seen business software evolve from the early days of batch processing to the distributed processing era. This was a big change but the onset of real-time processing changes everything. Its impact on productivity and profitability will dictate rapid uptake. Third generation digital twin software, as it automates the flow of work and joins up all business activity, will absorb second generation systems which will either change or be replaced. This ability to automate and absorb is critical to its speed of adoption, because it does not require wholesale replacement of existing software.
The transition to third generation business software will create opportunities everywhere: new corporations, new technology vendors and new ways of thinking. It is the perfect environment for firms looking to disrupt the consulting market.
AptumX – Third Generation Business Software
AptumX is a software product with four components:
A Digital Twin framework in which every aspect of the business, from its architecture downwards, is replicated in a digital model of data structure and rules
An enterprise-level modelling tool for Business Architects and Business Analysts to populate the Digital Twin, including functions that enable them to analyse and improve business operations
A digital workplace in which work is allocated, defined, monitored and analysed
A workflow simulation engine that enables real-time decision-making, routing and rerouting of work, monitoring conditions and alerting when human intervention is required.
The AptumX Proposition to forward-thinking consulting firms
We will partner with you to make this future a reality for you and your clients. We will equip your consultants to:
Model the client’s business, in the easy-to-understand, reusable Digital Twin
Capture workflow to enable process improvement, eliminating rework and redundant activity and identifying areas of opportunity to automate
Lead the client’s migration to a third generation software environment - model the whole business, automate workflow & integrate legacy software
Position you as real-time business experts, knowledgeable about the client’s organisation and about how they can use technology to the greatest benefit
Become a long-term partner for the clients by virtue of your knowledge of their Digital Twin and your ability to exploit the technology for them.