What we do

Gibson's focus is on services and roles in the context of:

Selection of perfect-fit Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
Business Process Reengineering stand-alone or in preparation of ERP / Transformation projects
ERP projects and International ERP rollouts
Systems consolidation and harmonization
Turnaround and recovery situations
Individual services like marketing support or strategic advice in venture capital / M&A engagements

Program and project management

Change usually happens in a wider context of organizational matters and initiatives.
We help you to make things happen by leading and driving your

Program management

Improving an organization's performance often requires a concerted effort in several disciplines.
Managing these requires the process of managing several related projects.

We help customer to set up program management drive the initiative keep track of all projects and help to support decision making.

Project management

Larger initiatives are typically broken down in small manageable projects.
Managing these related projects requires leadership and a distinct skill set to deliver on time, on budget, and in scope.

We help you to lead and drive your projects and support decision making and actions.

Project turnaround

Sometimes things in projects do not develop as planned.
We help to analyze the situation, derive actions, lead and implement it.
After regaining control, we support you restarting the project and complete it with the defined goals.

Project coaching

Project management is more an art than a science. However, a well established set of tools and techniques helps to support monitoring and leading an project.
We coach your project managers in adopting an utilizing the techniques as well as honing their people skills to successfully lead projects.

ERP services

Fragile economies, fading and emerging industry trends, higher supply chain performance challenge the ERP and business software systems.
The ever present need to drive down costs demands continuous improvement of all value-adding processes.
Non-value adding processes need to be eliminated or perfectly streamlined.

In between all these challenges, opportunities are still abound.
Only organizations that are agile, flexible and tightly integrated will be able to lever those and prosper.

ERP systems address the management needs of many different types of organizations, whether it’s a service-based business or a government entity.

Projects that are concerned with selection, roll-in and roll-out of Enterprises Resource Planning (ERP) bring about a high degree of change and modifications of business processes.
We support our customers in managing the changes and challenges around selection of the appropriate systems and consulting partners as well as leading and driving the project in their best interest.

Software/ERP selection and implementation projects

Business strategy and business initiatives must drive the direction and priorities for ERP and IT investments.
ERP and business systems capability must enable innovative business strategies and support business capabilities.
This is particularly critical in companies where ERP and IT plays a central role in business operations.

As a consequence, selection of the business software and ERP systems is one of the critical success factors of an ERP implementation.
Strict alignment of the business case and the scope for the ERP system implementation is the next crucial step. Implementation has to follow the business case in at every stage.

Gibcon leads evaluation and ERP selection with a structured and proven Framework.
The Gibcon approach for ERP evaluation and ERP selection helps to structure and prioritize all aspects of the ERP project. This includes the systems and the technology, best practice processes and systems, their vendors and implementation partners takes the risk out of the selection process.

ERP alignment benchmarking

An agile ERP infrastructure needs to deliver the operational efficiency, lower costs and the ability to respond swiftly to a changing environment.

Very often the alignment of the ERP system with business needs and priorities gets lost during implementation or in the operational phase.

Business alignment is at the core of realizing the full potential from ERP and IT in general.

Our ERP alignment benchmarking helps to visualize the degree of operational efficiency.

We benchmark the expectations versus actual operational situation in a structured process.

Efficiency gaps can then be identified, prioritized and delivered to the operation and users to fully exploit the potential of the present ERP infrastructure.

Transformation projects

Business process excellence initiatives

Businesses and governments are evolving their operations to accommodate an increasingly complex, volatile and interconnected global marketplace.
Gibson's unique combination of skills, approaches, assets and tools help develop and operate scalable, efficient and agile business processes for immediate and long-lasting value.

Economic volatility, increasing globalization, rising complexity and growing interconnectivity have forced businesses to make major changes to their operations in recent years.
At the same time, advances in technology such as cloud computing, service-oriented architecture and software-as-a-service are creating more flexible, configured application environments that can deliver tremendous value if used properly. To address these challenges, companies in all industries and geographies are focusing more attention and resources on business process management (BPM).

Gibcon helps organizations deal with change successfully while developing and operating scalable, efficient and agile business processes to create both immediate and long-term competitive advantage. While many companies provide assistance with specific elements of BPM, Gibson's unique combination of skills, approaches, assets and tools generate value quickly, deliver measurable results, and create durable BPM solutions.

Gibcon is helping people to learn the principles behind, and benefits of, process improvement, team-building and problem-solving. This approach is based on the fact that knowledge-retention levels are much higher when people are actively engaged in the learning process.

Change management

Change is nothing new, but the pace and enormity of change that business and governments are facing today can make it difficult to keep everyone and everything moving ahead together.

Gibcon helps organizations—and their people—adjust to change, whether it is a technology system that requires training, processes that need integrating into existing work habits, or a strategic direction that depends on the understanding and support of stakeholders.

Today, companies face a long list of challenges:
Workforce adjustments
Tight budgets
Stagnant markets
And, of course, ever-increasing competition.

As varied as they are, however, those challenges all point to one fundamental business imperative: Improve (workforce) productivity.
To be productive today, a workforce has to do much more than just “work harder ” and increase throughput. It must rapidly introduce and ramp up new business processes and technologies; learn new skills and tasks quickly; and increase efficiency to continuously reduce operating costs. At the same time, the company must be able to manage and support that type of productivity across the enterprise.

Gibcon understands that such productivity is the result of many complex, interrelated factors, ranging from technology and processes to culture and incentive and reward systems. To drive productivity, companies must address those factors in an integrated fashion. And they must ensure that those factors come together at all three levels of the organization—the enterprise, the workforce and the individual—to create a complete productivity-enhancing environment.

Individual services

Consulting for M&A / Venture capital

Successful deal making in technologically driven businesses requires a well-defined strategy and experience.
We help clients to develop strategies and evaluate targets against them.
We help our clients to ask and answer the big questions in the process of due diligence.
Sellers have a reason for selling. Our customers need to know what they are buying and what the fair value and what the risks are.
Post merger integration involves a short list of critical actions and a long list of follow-up and integration tasks.
We help our clients to setup and track the project.

Marketing

In B2B markets need the same level of attention as consumer markets. Market analysis, customer segmentation and business value sought and delivered are some of the areas to investigate and define. The marketing “ecosystem” needs to be carefully orchestrated, the core messages and actions defined. We support customers in analysis and design of their marketing and sales strategies.
This includes how companies organize, plan and carry out their sales efforts and maintaining an adaptive and effective sales force.

Strategy and organization

Strategy guides how resources are allocated.

Gibcon is helping clients with their strategic challenges and build tailored solutions to help them achieve their goals.
This includes thorough analysis, strategic alternatives, strategy definition, actions short lists and implementation plans.