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The Future Belongs to Those Who Navigate Better

SmartsEngine™

Enterprise Software Platform for Out-Navigating and Out-Evolving Your Competition

Built on Enterprise Navigation Science (ENS) — a New Methodology and Field

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SmartsEngine™

Comprehensive software platform for navigating an enterprise that systematically elevates how well the enterprise navigates.

THE PROBLEM

The Challenge of Navigating an Enterprise

Navigating an enterprise in today’s fiercely competitive international markets and industries is a monumental challenge.  Management teams work hard and do everything they can to navigate well.  But no management team treats enterprise navigation as a core competence it can systematically elevate. 

THE SOLUTION

Elevate Navigation to Competitive Advantage

SmartsEngine™ changes that!  SmartsEngine™ enables management teams to systematically elevate navigation so that it becomes a competitive advantage, even a dominant one, like that of a chess player who is far better at reading and processing the game — and making winning moves.

The Future Belongs to Those Who Navigate Better

THE RESULTS

Optimize Growth, Performance, and Valuation

Each improvement in navigation means more winning moves, fewer losing moves, better positioning.    Getting better than the competition at navigating and evolving your enterprise into the right company in the right markets for the future increases — and ultimately optimizes — growth, performance, and valuation: what every stakeholder dearly wants.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Seize a New Way to Compete, Win, and Prosper

The opportunity to systematically elevate enterprise navigation may be the most missed and underestimated opportunity for competitive advantage and value creation today. SmartsEngine™ is not just a new platform — it’s a new way to compete, win, and prosper.

Systematically Elevate Enterprise Navigation to Competitive Advantage

SmartsEngine™

SmartsEngine™ is a comprehensive, collaborative software platform for planning, decision-making, and navigating an enterprise. It fully incorporates Enterprise Navigation Science (ENS) — a new methodology and field.  At implementation, SmartsEngine™ is initialized with an enterprise’s current navigation-related processes and practices, and its current understanding of its markets and industries. As an enterprise uses SmartsEngine™, ENS systematically, continuously, and resiliently elevates its ability to navigate and evolve. 

SmartsEngine™ enables management teams to systematically elevate navigation so that it becomes a competitive advantage, even a dominant one, like that of a master chess player who is far better at reading and processing the game — and making winning moves. 

Enterprise Navigation Science (ENS)

ENS is built-in scientific methodology that relentlessly elevates an enterprise’s culture, capabilities, processes, and practices for doing the essential activities that define navigation:

  • Reading and processing the game in its markets and industries
  • Seeing and anticipating opportunities, challenges, risks, and threats
  • Formulating and evaluating options for dealing with these
  • Making winning decisions and moves across every aspect of the business
  • Comprehensively learning and evolving with the outcome of each decision and move

Insight and Core Value-Generating Dynamic

Crucially, SmartsEngine™ recognizes that the ability to read and process the game, and then make winning decisions and moves, can be developed and elevated in markets and industries just as it can be developed and elevated in all competitive sports. 

The core value-generating dynamic of SmartsEngine™ is relentless improvement in how well an enterprise sees and deals with its opportunities and challenges. As it improves how well it sees and deals with its opportunities and challenges, it increases growth and reduces decline.

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Full Incorporation of ENS is the Prime Mover; AI is an Aid

While SmartsEngine™ incorporates AI and advanced analytics, these are tools — not the driver.  What powers SmartsEngine™ is the full incorporation of ENS, the first methodology built to elevate an enterprise’s ability to navigate and evolve.

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Implement Relentless Improvement on a Robust Platform that Systematically Elevates Navigation Expertise Across the Expertise

Integrated Planning, Decision-Making, Learning, and Evolution

In SmartsEngine™, planning functionality is nested within decision-making functionality, which in turn is nested within learning, evolving, and new idea introduction functionality.  

ENS Operates Across the Enterprise

SmartsEngine™ includes a comprehensive suite of integrated planning and decision-making modules (demand forecasting, inventory, supply chain, resource, operations, Next-Gen FP&A, events, models and assumptions, opportunity and challenge management, options (including real), scenario construction and simulation, advanced analytics, evaluations, decisions) and a comprehensive KPI module that form foundational functionality within overarching ENS methodology.  

Built-in, Quickly-Adaptable, Configuration-to-Customer and High-Performance IT Integration

In terms of IT integration, SmartsEngine™ incorporates built-in systems integration that works with any ERP environment, making initial setup and later changes quick and efficient.

Implement in Stages

Start by Seizing Quick Wins with Demand Planning or IBP Implemented within SmartsEngine™

Demand Planning and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) are two navigation functions where SmartsEngine™ can meet an enterprise and immediately provide substantial wins with minimal disruption.

Demand Planning Implemented within SmartsEngine™ Provides:

1.      A demand planning solution that institutes process evolution that systematically elevates demand planning processes and performance, driving ongoing increases in operating margins. It enables an enterprise to elevate demand planning into a core competitive advantage.

2.       Development of expertise with Enterprise Navigation Science (ENS), which sets the stage for expanding its application across the enterprise.

IBP Implemented within SmartsEngine™ Provides:

1.      The benefits mentioned in Demand Planning.

2.     A consummate IBP platform that enables an enterprise to immediately exceed Gartner’s Level V of IBP maturity by supporting Decision-Centric Planning – See Gartner’s Maverick* Research: It Is Time to Move Beyond Traditional S&OP — Introducing Decision-Centric Planning.  The platform maintains a complete, always-current picture of IBP goals, opportunities, challenges, options, thinking, decisions, and plans — eliminating packet prep work and enabling smarter, faster, unified team decisions. It systematically elevates IBP team vision, decision-making, and opportunistic operational agility. This systematically improves alignment of production and resources with profitable and strategic demand — increasing operating margins.  

3.      A comprehensive platform for IBP process definition definition, standardization, adherence, training, certification, efficiency — and systematic elevation and evolution of IBP into a strategic competitive advantage.

Evolve to Elevating Navigation Across the Whole Organization

As SmartsEngine™ proves itself, it naturally grows beyond IBP or wherever it starts to all functional areas and management levels.  In full implementation, SmartsEngine™ is the center-of-excellence platform for enterprise navigation across the organization.  The future belongs to those who navigate better.

The Future Belongs to Those Who Navigate Better

What Makes SmartsEngine™ Different?

  • Built on Enterprise Navigation Science (ENS) — a new methodology and field
  • Enables elevation of navigation into a core competitive advantage
  • Fully integrates planning, decision-making, learning, and evolution
  • Plug-in architecture meets your processes, elevates them as you go
  • Provides immediate value in Demand Planning and IBP
  • Scales to become your center-of-excellence for navigation

Navigating and Evolving as an Ever-Smarter Competitor is Within Your Reach​

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