Applied strategy consulting
OUR CONSULTANTS COMMIT AND ACTIVELY ENGAGE THEMSELVES IN
SUPPORTING THE EXECUTION OF YOUR STRATEGY.
DISCOVER OUR UNIQUE APPROACH TO CONSULTING
The energy to transform
WE WORK ALONGSIDE YOUR TEAM WITH DRIVE AND DEDICATION
TO MAKE THE NECESSARY CHANGES HAPPEN
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Experience our sound & proven methodology
OUR CONSULTING SOLUTIONS ARE ENGINEERED TO ENHANCE
YOUR PEOPLE AND YOUR ORGANISATION SUCCESS
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Probability  Boosters
SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE CHANCES THAT YOUR STRATEGY IS IMPLEMENTED
NEXANCE HELPS YOU SOLVE THE COMPLEX EQUATION OF SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
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WHAT ARE YOUR STRATEGIC EXECUTION ISSUES?

We commit ourselves alongside the men and women of your company
to ensuring the implementation of your strategic ambitions.

C-suite Executive Teams
Formalize our vision
and our strategy
You want to translate your strategic plan into an easily communicable framework, to lay out its steps to successful implementation, and to establish and promote a sound base to actively engage your team in its execution.
Engage and mobilize my teams
and drive change
You need to engage your teams to identify and understand the changes necessary to implement your strategy, to integrate the impacts of these changes on their activities, and to succeed in transforming the organisation. You must infuse enthusiasm and positive energy in your transformation efforts.
Actively manage my
transformation program
You need to keep track of progress made, to stimulate and actively support your teams, to develop a suitable management and reporting framework, and to structure your executive and management committees around your key strategic challenges.

C-suite Executive Teams

IS Functions
Build my IT Strategy Roadmap
You want to build an IS ambition truly aligned with your company strategic vision, and to structure an effective roadmap for your IS function that serve your business objectives.
Implement my IT governance
You must organise and operate the most effective and appropriate management bodies to optimize your decision-making process and trust its outcome. You also need to structure the monitoring and the reporting of the IT function objectives in close connection with the strategic issues and development of your business. You have to develop efficient methods of collaboration between the IT teams and the different business entities and functions.
Effectively manage our ERP
and digital transformation projects
You have to cope with an ever-growing number of IT projects critical to the company future, with high business impact and that transcend organizational boundaries. You have to manage their increased complexity, and make sense and keep control of a large portfolio with strong interdependencies and adhesions. You must ensure deliverables and meet deadlines.

IS Functions

Finance Function
Building your Finance
Transformation Roadmap
With the ever-increasing need for a high performance finance function to fully contribute to the achievement of your company’s strategic vision, your ambition is to focus and motivate your teams with a clear and realistic path to meet this challenge. You are seeking to develop and clarify a Finance Roadmap that will help show the way for your teams to move forward together, fully taking advantage of new opportunities in the digital era.
Design, implement and optimize my Shared Services Center(s)
You seek to anchor high performance and customer-focus in the finance function through the implementation and optimization of this organizational model, with significant cost, quality and efficiency improvements. You seek to bring together resources and skills to create centers of excellence and expertise, to ensure consistent service quality and performance to all customers of your finance organization.
Optimize my Finance operations
and processes
You need to define and structure your performance plans to ensure the on-going competitiveness, efficiency and quality of your current Finance operations. You seek to define the high-performance outcomes that can be achieved by mobilizing your teams in the near and medium term, as well as the specific harmonization, automation and other actions needed to reach these outcomes.

Finance Function

OUR APPROACH TO CONSULTING

We combine and adapt for you a subtle mix of proven world-class methodologies with our unrivaled experience
in strategy execution and the strong values enshrined in our DNA.

OUR OFFERING

We provide stimulating methods and inspiring content supported by sound consulting processes to smoothen and accelerate your ride to success.

Strategy execution

Successfully implement your strategy.

Transition Accelerator

Maximize your impact when you step into a new position – Quickly give a sense and a momentum to your actions.

TRANSFORMATION GOVERNANCE

Equip your executive team to lead the transformation. Effectively manage complexity and decision-making processes.

Disruptive innovation

Stimulate and structure breakthrough innovation in a world of profound and rapid transformation.

Active Program Management ®

Achieve excellence in managing a complex portfolio of projects.

NEXANCE pm

Make the progress made on your business strategic challenges and its transformation tangible, visible and shared.

Change Management

Deliver change effectively through the positive involvement of the teams affected by the transformation.

LeadIT

Position the IT function as the key driver to lead and support the business digital transformation.

Team leadership Development

Grow the team and each of its members through a true positive managerial experience. Grow your directors committee into an executive team.

Strategy execution

Successfully implement your strategy.

Formalisation of the Strategy Roadmap and the associated implementation plan, based on the managers’ knowledge, experience and conviction. Structuration of the Governance, steering and monitoring processes.

Transition Accelerator

Maximize your impact when you step into a new position – Quickly give a sense and a momentum to your actions.

Construction of the management team around a shared vision and a clear roadmap. Mobilization of energies and team alignment behind a structured and well understood operational deployment plan.

TRANSFORMATION GOVERNANCE

Equip your executive team to lead the transformation. Effectively manage complexity and decision-making processes.

Design, implementation, and support of the governance and management structures and processes which provide the essential link between strategico-politics and day-to-day implementation.

Disruptive innovation

Stimulate and structure breakthrough innovation in a world of profound and rapid transformation.

Using the Blue Ocean Strategy method and its participative approach to investigate and structure new strategic spaces.

Active Program Management ®

Achieve excellence in managing a complex portfolio of projects.

Implementation of a method for monitoring and controling the business transformation program implementation progress. Provision of the tools and the resources trained to actively support, engage and stimulate the managers in charge of the different projects.

NEXANCE pm

Make the progress made on your business strategic challenges and its transformation tangible, visible and shared.

A simple and flexible web solution for monitoring and managing the transformation program objectives, projects and KPIs. An alternative to complex solutions, for immediate deployment, easy-to-use for managers.

Change Management

Deliver change effectively through the positive involvement of the teams affected by the transformation.

A well-thought and solid consulting process that engages the change agents and the impacted populations in defining and adopting the necessary operational changes, in participating and contributing to the implementation and monitoring of the transformation program projects, objectives and KPIs.

LeadIT

Position the IT function as the key driver to lead and support the business digital transformation.

An IT-lead process that blends technological awareness with market knowledge and leverage them into a redefined value roadmap. Tools, methodology and support to accelerate business digitisation.

Team leadership Development

Grow the team and each of its members through a true positive managerial experience. Grow your directors committee into an executive team.

Effective and targetted support to individuals and teams that combines management dynamics, theoretical and methodological support and practical coaching. Development of personnal and team efficiency, competency and leadereship.

OUR VALUES

We embed our strong values in the way we deliver our services

COMMITMENT

We are involved with strength and dedication to the success of your project. Customer focus, availability, listening

IMMERSION

We blend with your teams and integrate the values, rhythms and culture of your company

ENTHUSIASM

We instill and strengthen your teams and business projects with high degrees of positive energy

EXCELLENCE

We deliver our services with the control and guarantee of quality that comes from our solid processes and methodology, our proven skills, expertise and experience.

THE NEXANCE METHOD DOES DELIVER

Tangible and measurable results

6 to 9
Shorten the implementation of your strategic vision by 6 to 9 months
X 2
Double the number of strategic projects successfully completed
40 %
Increase by 40% the engagement rate of your managers in the next two years
90 %
Over 90% of managers who went through the Nexance experience "extremely satisfied" or "very satisfied"
100 %
100% of CEOs who have commissioned Nexance are recommending us
X 3
A minimum ROI of 3 on
the approach within 24 months

OUR METHODOLOGY SEQUENCE

From strategy to action

We engage the teams in truly exciting and motivating managerial experiences built on world-class proven management methodologies, that do deliver results.

INTERVIEW PHASE
Inclusion of all stakeholders, shareholders, management, employees, customers or users

STRATEGY FORMALISATION
Detailed strategy implementation program

TRANSFORMATION LAUNCH
Teams engagement through resource mobilization, communication, coaching …

MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING
Monitoring progress and adaptation through governance tools, reporting, etc…

balanced_scorecard
Balanced Scorecard
The tool of excellence for business strategy formalization and implementation, originated in Havard and using the Strategy Map as its cornerstone. Nexance founders are previous employees of Dr Kaplan and Norton, the inventors of the methodology.

blue ocean strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy
The ideal and pragmatic breakthrough innovation process to search and explore new markets areas, developed by researchers at INSEAD.

client for life
Client for Life
The client retention process in B2B, focusing on customer relationship quality and continuous improvement, supported by action training and tools for diagnostic, exchange, and communication with customers.

cBusiness Model Generation
Business Model Generation
The simple and powerful toolbox to understand, design, refine, enhance and implement a business model, focused on value creation.

OUR EXPERTISE

A unique combination of people and technical skills to guarantee your project success

STRATEGIC
ANALYSIS

Balanced Scorecard
MAPPING STRATEGY

INTERVIEWING

FACILITATION

TEAM
COACHING

PROJECT AND
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Trusted
advisor

OUR ASSIGNMENTS

Successfully completed client engagements

Telecom

Telecom

Workforce: 14,000 employees

Our mission: New strategy definition

  • Mobile entity new mission and vision definition
  • Strategic scenario selection and communication in a rapidly changing technological environment
  • Service convergence and team alignment
  • Balanced Scorecard methodology implementation
  • IT vision construction and technology roadmap cascading within the teams for the Fixed Line Division
Real Estate

Real Estate

Company size: 5000 housing units under construction or management

Our assignment: IT Strategy Roadmap

  •  IT Roadmap
  • Strategic and operational diagnosis,
  • Business challenge and need identification and priorisation
  • IT roadmap scenarios for infrastructure, organisation, legacy systems, …
Public services

Public services

Workforce: 1,000 employees

Our assignment: Centralised IS function creation

  • IS Strategy Roadmap construction and associated change program
  • ERP development and implementation program management tools, processes and governance
  • ERP migration and change management support in local operational entities
  • Business processes harmonisation with operational teams
  • Roadshow and communication
  • NexancePM solution implementation
Public Hospital

Public Hospital

Size Hospital: 500 beds

Our assignment: Hospital merger

  • Consolidation of various hospital institutions into one group
  • Hospital Strategy Map, governance structure and management processes definition and implementation
  • Management-by-objective set-up
  • Change projects definition and launch
  • Performance indicators development
High Tech

High Tech

Workforce: 35,000 employees

Our assignment Group strategy cascading

  • Strategy ownership and team alignment building
  • KPIs definition and implementation
Food and Facility Management Services

Food and Facility Management Services

Workforce: 400,000 employees

Our assignment: Support to CEO

  • CEO support in building his new executive team
  • Group vision and strategic roadmap definition
  • Program structuring, monitoring and steering at Executive Committee level
  • Strategy cascading in various subsidiaries: France, UK, Italy, Singapore, …
  • Cascading in support function organisations (HR, IS)
Food

Food

Workforce: 11,000 employees

Our assignment: Design and implementation of strategy management processes

  • Strategy Maps for Group and 5 brands across the group
  • Strategic content communication and cascading in the operating units and key functions
  • Factory industrial roadmap
  • Design and implementation of innovation management process
  • NexancePM solution implementation
E-commerce

E-commerce

Workforce: 40 employees

Our assignment: Strategy formalisation and management with the "Balanced ScoreCard" approach

  • Definition and management  of strategic objectives, projects and KPI
  • Governance bodies and processes set-up and management (Board, GA, Exec meeting, ...)
  • Fundraising support with potential investors
Distribution

Distribution

Workforce: 140,000 employees

Our assignment: Merger support

  • Support of the merger and integration of all communication activities within a single centralized entity across the group
  • Internal and external communication processes implementation
  • Program management design and implementation
  • Implementation of NexancePM
  • Performance and program progress support, monitoring and management
Chemicals

Chemicals

Workforce: 33,000 employees

Our assignment: Strategy roadmaps definition and implementation

  • Define strategic roadmaps
  • Group Mission, Vision and values redefintiion with board and executive team the group
  • Communication of that vision with 33,000 employees worldwide
  • Construction and implementation of strategic roadmaps for various entities
  • Definition of change project portfolios and KPI for 5 entities worldwide
Banking

Banking

Workforce: 20,000 employees

Our assignment: Strategy roadmap development

  • Strategic Roadmap definition for the new central support function reporting to Group, regrouping the IS, Purchasing, HR, Organization and Quality functions
  • Reporting Structure and processes implementation
  • Cascading of strategic content and management process in each department

OUR BUSINESS

Strategy execution constitutes the core of our business

CONSULTING

Consulting is the building block of our business and each of our consultants is expert in strategy formalisation and deployment.
We use proven methodologies (Balanced Scorecard, Blue Ocean Strategy, Customer for Life, …) that we adapt to your company size, your business issues, your people’s values…
We believe in the virtues of change, in the power of innovation, in the potential that lies in any form of transformation. We know how and we thrive to infuse positive dynamics and excitement in ambitious and challenging projects and endeavours.
We believe in the virtue of strategic leadership but we praise the power of the team and the commitment to execution.

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TRAINING

As part of a new strategy implementation, coaching teams at each level frequently requires the development of specific training programs.
We ensure consistency between the strategy roadmap and its implementation through effective and targeted training. This also allows us to be closer to the operational teams
during the deployment of strategic changes, who are the most impacted in their day-to-day job.

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NEXANCE SOFTWARE

To help our client implement their strategy quickly and effectively, we have developed our web-based Nexance PM solution, the strategy management portal. It supports program and project governance and the reporting of results and progress made. Because strategy should be a major concern for all, the NexancePM solution
puts it at the heart of a communication and exchange forum structured around the strategy map and its key components (objectives, indicators and projects). It facilitates, structures and enhances analysis and speeds up decision-making process.

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