CET Advantage provides a wide range of IT and Business Consulting services to assist our customers in solving their business problems.

Our approach is to place the customer first, working in partnership to establish long-term business relationships based on a common understanding of business need. Our consultants are original and creative thinkers who can offer new perspectives on resolving business issues through thought leadership and industry expertise.

CET has a proven track record of meeting and exceeding our customers' expectations. Clients trust us to perform consistently and professionally. We focus on delivering business value through technology enabled change.

Business Case Development

Any major project should be justified to senior management by presenting the benefits, costs and requirements for delivery. Complex projects will often require a detailed assessment of cash requirements and a separation of capital and revenue costs. CET has worked with many clients to develop a fully justified business case for presentation at board level.

Business Process Improvement

Align key business functions and processes with industry best practice using a top down approach. Recommend practical suggestions for improvement. Use the business process project to identify systems requirements and gaps in application support. We use our standard business process models, which cover operational and infrastructure processes, supported by Casewise our corporate modelling and business simulation tool.

Change Management

Address key process and resource issues within the organisation resulting from major change. Professionally managed transformation can:

Strategic Procurement Review

Improvements to the behaviour, policies, technology and processes surrounding procurement can significantly reduce operational costs. In particular, supplier consolidation, reduction in maverick buying, improved approvals processes, e-enablement and shared services lead to tighter controls and greater efficiencies. CET has generated substantial savings for a number of organisations by introducing best practice procurement processes.

IT/IS Strategy

CET can produce an agreed framework for the development, acquisition and use of IT to deliver against agreed business plans and objectives. Using our established IS methodology we evaluate:

System Requirements | Specification and Definition

A key component of any systems development or replacement activity is capturing business, functional and technical requirements and identifying the underlying data model and architecture to support key business processes. CET can deliver this as a standalone exercise or using leading-edge technology from our business process toolset to capture requirements using a top down business-driven approach, identifying processes, requirements, issues and data and output requirements.

System Selection | Procurement Support

A fast track approach to software selection concentrating on key business issues and requirements, enabling selection of "best in class" systems and solutions across all areas of the business; front, middle and back office.

Service Level Agreements

Performance measures and accountability are becoming critical to ensure cost-effective delivery of IT services. CET has significant experience in reviewing and developing defined Service Level Agreements between suppliers and IT, and also between IT and the business.

Network Reviews | IS Organisation Reviews | Outsourcing Advice

Provide an objective review of IT resource, capability and delivery to act as a catalyst for change. Identify key issues and risks to the business, confirm whether IT is acting as an enabler or a barrier to change. Assess the suitability and capability of the current IS infrastructure and organisation to deliver against business and IT plans. We can provide independent and insightful advice which often overcomes internal company politics to arrive at a workable IS delivery model.

Data and Systems Migration

An exercise that is often underestimated in its complexity. We have extensive experience in migrating and mapping data, and building systems interfaces to create an integrated platform. We use automated tools to extract and refine the data and ensure data quality and integrity.

IT Due Diligence

IT is increasingly central to the way organisations do business. However, have the organisation's investment decisions resulted in:

CET can work for vendors pre-transaction, providing an objective appraisal of the relative strengths and weaknesses of their IT products long before they become a negotiating point. We can work for buyers during the transaction to quickly get to the heart of IT systems and provide a technically and commercially informed opinion.

Programme and Project Management

Effective project and programme management is crucial in successfully implementing significant change within an organisation, ranging from major restructuring and business integration through to systems implementation. Without experience of complex projects and effective structures, processes and controls in place, organisations leave themselves exposed to financial and commercial risk. CET provides a flexible and cost-effective service for the delivery and risk management of all manner of projects, using PRINCE2 methodology combined with a variety of internal best practices. This ensures business-oriented delivery, with an ongoing assessment of the benefits to measure compliance with agreed business objectives.

Supplier Management | Contract Negotiations

CET has advised a number of organisations on supplier contracts for the implementation of new systems. It is an area often overlooked, but key to ensuring successful delivery. It ensures supplier capability and compliance with key system requirements.