Consulting Offerings

Consulting That Achieves Results

Achieving business success has never been harder. Global markets call for new management skills. Competition is fierce and margins are shrinking. Shorter product life cycles mean growing time-to-market pressures. Customers are more powerful - and more demanding. "Quality" is a moving target, always a benchmark away. Technology is advancing at a rapid pace, altering the playing field with each new gain.

These challenging times demand a new approach to strategy and a new breed of company: lean, flexible, efficient and customer-focused.

CSC works with leading companies worldwide to make the radical changes in strategy and operations needed to achieve global leadership in this new environment.

CSC works in close partnership with its customers to solve their most critical problems in areas of business strategy, operations, information technology and change management.

CSC specialises in large scale business change, innovation, customer leadership and capability development, and information systems (IS) performance transformation.

We originated business re-engineering to help customers fundamentally redesign their operations to meet competitive and economic realities of today's global market.

CSC's innovative value leadership approach to strategy completely rewrites the traditional rules of competition. By fundamentally rethinking existing markets and creating optimal operation models, CSC helps its customers to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. We call this breakthrough approach to strategy "reinventing competition".

Our work on organisational agility helps companies develop the capability for ongoing reinvention in response to changing market conditions. CSC's ground breaking work in these areas has led to a reputation for innovation and results.

Consulting Services

Strategic Consulting

Our consultants combine domain knowledge, sound practical advice and proven methodologies with original work or research to develop a state-of-the-art response to the critical needs of an organisation.

Our greatest strength is the extreme diversity of real world problems we solve for organisations across a wide and diverse spectrum of business. Our special strengths are:

• World-class management consulting
• Unwavering focus on achieving lasting business results
• Linking technologies and organisational change holistically
• “Test-driving” new technologies in our “Business Solutions Centre”
• International best practices
• Industry recognised white papers
• Leading edge thought leadership

Knowledge Management

In today’s market, an organisation's ‘know-how’ is considered its most valuable asset. ‘Know how’ is a term covering an organisation's competencies and the skills of its people, its intellectual property and internal systems and its external relationships such as alliances, partners and customers. Knowledge management is the coordinated creation and leveraging of this ‘know-how’ value.

Enterprise Architecture

A properly designed Enterprise Architecture is a set of principles, guidelines and rules that informs, guides and constrains the technological decisions an enterprise makes. So it’s important to get it right. It’s a complex undertaking. That’s why many enterprises choose a strategic partner with specialist expertise in enterprise architecture development. A partner like CSC with local and global experience in organisational review and architectural design across many industries, including Government.

Secured Enterprise

Secured Enterprise (SE) is a programmatic approach to security enabling the transition of security from a IT technology specialty to an integrated risk management business process, reducing expense and better balancing risk and security measures.

The Secured Enterprise Program has four stages. The first is a comprehensive current-state management assessment of all security-related functions and technologies deployed. Following this is the development of a cost effective, efficient and timely Security Strategy. Next is the creation of a pragmatic migration plan for the goal future state and architecture. Finally continuous evaluation of the future state ensures the security profile of an organisation meets ROI and current business objectives.

The result is a Security Roadmap that is clearly linked to management of business risk and which can be maintained and refined over time.

The benefits of Secured Enterprise to an organisation, includes enabling key decisions about their security approach: