The Future Belongs to Those Who Navigate Better.
SmartsEngine™
The Enterprise Navigation Software Platform for
Developing a Decisive Competitive Advantage
at Navigating and Evolving in Markets and Industries
More winning moves. Fewer losing moves. Ever-greater positioning.
Greater growth. Stronger performance. Higher valuation.
Navigate to where business is going and growing, and away from where business is in decline, ahead of the competition.
Evolve into the right company in the right markets for the future.
Optimize Growth, Performance, and Valuation
Human-driven. AI-aided. Not AI-driven.
DEFINITION
What is Enterprise Navigation?
1) Reading and processing the game in markets and industries
2) Seeing opportunities, challenges, risks, and threats
3) Formulating and evaluating options for addressing them
4) Making winning decisions and moves
5) Learning and evolving with the outcome of each move
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
SmartsEngine™ changes that! SmartsEngine™ enables management teams to systematically and continuously elevate navigation so that it becomes a decisive, even dominant, competitive advantage, like that of a Gretzky or master chess player who is far better at reading and processing the game — and making winning moves.
NEW WAY TO COMPETE, WIN, AND PROSPER
The most important core competence of any enterprise is its ability to read and process the game across its markets and industries and make winning decisions and moves.
It governs how well an enterprise employs, develops, and evolves all its other capabilities and assets—individually and in concert.
SmartsEngine™ enables enterprises to systematically elevate this ability into a decisive competitive advantage.
THE BENEFITS
Increase and Optimize Growth, Performance, and Valuation
When an enterprise improves its ability to navigate, it means more winning moves, fewer losing moves, and better positioning; it means greater growth, stronger performance, and higher valuation.
If an enterprise elevates that ability into a competitive advantage, it navigates to where business is going and growing, and away from where business is in decline, ahead of the competition. It evolves into the right company in the right markets for the future, optimizing growth, performance, and valuation.
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 Decisive Competitive Advantage
SmartsEngine™ Works through Enterprise Navigation Science (ENS)
SmartsEngine™ is a comprehensive, collaborative software platform for navigating and evolving an enterprise. It is powered by Enterprise Navigation Science (ENS), a pioneering field fully built into and operationalized within the platform.
At implementation, SmartsEngine™ meets an enterprise where it is — in its current navigation processes and practices, its current understanding of its markets and industries, and its current IT environment.
Enterprise Navigation Science (ENS)
As enterprises use SmartsEngine™ to navigate and evolve, ENS enables them to systematically build decisive, compounding competitive advantage in:
- Reading and processing the game in its markets and industries
- Seeing and anticipating opportunities, challenges, risks, and threats
- Formulating and evaluating options for addressing them
- 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, which increases growth and reduces decline.
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.
Implement in Stages with Quick Wins Up Front
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, standardization, adherence, training, certification, efficiency — and systematic elevation of IBP into a strategic competitive advantage.
Next, Elevate 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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