Over the last few years, I have led teams of West Monroe consultants through Productivity Blueprint Assessments at many different types of clients within the retail, distribution, and LTL trucking industries. The West Monroe Productivity Blueprint is an assessment based on P.U.M.P. methodology (i.e., Productivity = Utilization x Methods x Performance) that is designed to pinpoint areas of...
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Santosh Kumar Sriram, an experienced consultant based in our San Francisco office, recently spoke at the Salesforce Developers Group meeting on Lightning component testing. Salesforce does not yet have a standard testing framework for Lightning components in GA, so Santosh came up with his own testing framework using Jasmine JS, which he calls “Lightning Test Execution.” In this...
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Bill Kirst, our West Coast organizational change management lead, shares the fourth episode of his podcast series on the topic of change management. In this episode, Bill interviews James Casey, VP of Partner Engineering at Chef Software. Bill and James talk about the changes that are happening in our work because of automation and the adoption of cloud.…
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If you’re like me, Prime Day gets you excited for a good deal. I’ll admit it, I spent a good 20-30 minutes scrolling through the upcoming deals and adding several to my “Watching” list. If you’re Jeff Bezos, you’re excited that Prime Day is going to increase Amazon’s market share even further… Here are four ways Amazon is using Prime Day to continue crushing competition: Increasing Amazon...
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As the pace of business change continues to accelerate, we face increasing pressure as developers to deliver the applications and enhancements that enable our organizations to engage customers and influence their behavior – in other words, to shift and thrive. In this environment, high performance requires development teams that are built for the shift.…
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Recently, about a dozen of us at West Monroe spent an afternoon getting familiar with Kaggle, an online data science community centered around sponsored competitions. This was the first in a series of hackathons where we aim to expose ourselves to new tools and methods of data analysis. The Kaggle competitions range from the introductory ‘Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster’ to...
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As part of West Monroe Partners’ membership with Ellevate Network, I had the opportunity to virtually attend the recent summit titled “Mobilizing the Power of Women.” For those who are not familiar, Ellevate is a professional women’s network dedicated to closing the gender achievement gap in business by providing women with a community to lean on and learn from.…
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During the first quarter of 2017, West Monroe and Mergermarket surveyed 100 senior private equity and corporate executives, all with organizations that have acquired at least one software firm over the past three years. Results suggest the voracious appetite for software investments will continue. Here we dig deeper into what that deal activity may look like.…
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At West Monroe, we believe that we have a social responsibility to give back to our community. Our “National Day of Change” is a volunteer initiative that gives us a deeper sense of what it means to do good. We are a community comprised of determined and innovative people, but it is our shared value of social responsibility that unites West Monroe across all offices.…
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Welcome to 2017, folks! The year is half over and it’s been full of, well, uncertainty. Whether you’re questioning what will come from our current political climate or the fate of foreign relations, one thing you can count on is the Fed raising rates. For the first time in the post Great Recession era, the economy has proven it can withstand the effects of reversing the Quantitative Easing...
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So you may be asking yourself, what is field service and why is it important? Field service refers to the management of a company’s resources/employees/technicians at or en route to customers, rather than on company property (i.e. work done out in “the field”). It’s something that we all deal with as a customer.…
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Bill Kirst, our West Coast Organizational Change Management Lead in Seattle shares the third episode of his podcast series on the topic of change management. In this episode, Bill interviews Adam Burtner, a recent graduate and commencement speaker for the Class of 2017 at Wabash College. Bill and Adam talk about the changes that are happening in community engagement and the emerging trend of...
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