Why it really matters

AlixPartners makes IT really matter by increasing earnings through both reducing IT costs with our IT turnaround and transformation expertise and further improving profits with our applied data analytics skills.  We take significant costs out of IT organizations while using data assets to drive improvements across revenue, margins, expenses and working capital.  A company’s IT organization should exist solely to help improve corporate profitability while operating as efficiently as possible.

• Our IT turnaround and transformation experts typically get involved in urgent situations where one or both of the IT organization’s objectives are not being met.  Examples include:

• The company’s IT costs are too high (IT cost reduction)

• There is an IT crisis situation, e.g., customer-facing applications crashing, major security breaches, key IT leadership leaves (IT crisis management & interim IT executives)

• A large implementation project is running well over budget or behind schedule (IT project rescue)

• An acquisition is being considered and the IT function must be reviewed and integrated (IT due diligence, carve-out and merger integration)

• The IT organization is not meeting the business’s needs rapidly or cost effectively enough and must be changed (IT transformation & interim IT executives)

Our applied analytics experts work very closely with our business operations and strategy experts to develop practical uses for the increasingly massive amounts of data for both tactical and strategic decision making.  We have a highly integrated approach that works "hand and glove" with our senior teams in Enterprise Improvement and/or with the experts within our client and referral source organizations.  We align information management with the objectives of the business and have developed performance improvement tools focused on improving all areas of the income statement and working capital.  We customize these tools by industry with emphasis on the biggest opportunities and problems. 

Information is one of the most important assets that a company has to achieve its performance goals.  The effective leverage of information can create dramatic performance gains throughout the organization.  Rapid innovation is occurring in how information is being leveraged – providing opportunities for both companies and their competitors.  Yet, most companies do not have the capacity to seize these critical benefits.  Most companies are drowning under the burden of existing application maintenance and support activities and long implementation efforts.

AlixPartners enables companies to disrupt the cycle of ever growing support costs and project challenges as well as rapidly deliver business value from information on an ongoing basis.

Why AlixPartners

• Experience and Expertise – We have assembled a group of extremely seasoned and successful professionals with extensive operating experience who have delivered under the most challenging and time-sensitive conditions.  Our expertise includes:
  • Experienced CIOs and executive IT management
  • Excellent track records of evaluating, fixing/improving and running all aspects of IT organizations while delivering measurable business value
  • Numerous examples of rescuing and turning around major IT projects that are “off the tracks” and quickly restoring these projects to deliver the intended business value
  • Data technology and business intelligence experts that apply cost and revenue focused analytics, data warehousing strategies, scenario modeling, and data integration / management strategies

• Methods – AlixPartners utilizes our QuickStrike® method that has proven to reliably deliver outstanding results on an ongoing basis.  Our goal is to enable our customers to be able to leverage this approach to adopt their own rapid ROI methodology in days or weeks what would normally take months.

• Infrastructure – We have developed world class technology structures and processes that are designed to promptly extract and host data in our sophisticated data centers as a way to rise above data and systems issues.  This provides the ability for our clients to immediately “plug and play” in a proven environment without having to invest in people, hardware, software and time.  As a result, our clients have a very low cost of entry to fast-impactful technology solutions.

• Aligned Interests – We design our engagements and our firm to ensure that we are aligned with our clients to realize maximum value as quickly as possible.  We avoid creating incentives to staff as large of teams as long as possible.

• Philosophy – Our focus is on business outcomes and, unlike larger systems integration firms, we do not need to find a large IT project to keep a large staff of junior professionals busy.  Our clients get seasoned IT expertise without the worry of being sold a large systems project.