What Does the Greystone Group Do?

We work with organizations to help them become more competitive through business process management and IT alignment. We provide research, education, systems development and hands-on project management. We partner with our clients to transition to and master the brave new world of process-based competition. You can read more about Greystone Group's vision for process-based competition in Intelligent Enterprise's cover article, “ Prime Time for Real Time .”

What Differentiates the Greystone Group?

The Greystone Group focus is unlike most consulting firms. As a company of senior practitioners with recognized leadership in business process management, requirements management, IT architectures and incremental development methods, we strive to find better ways to help organizations realize the benefit of aligning their business/IT operations to become process-managed organizations.

Our goal is to move our clients beyond industry best practices and conventional wisdom. As a result, our clients are able to optimize their businesses by achieving a greater ROI while creating the agility necessary to maintain a sustainable business advantage.

We partner with our clients to:

• Establish ROI up front through a new breed of BPM tools,
• Accelerate time to market,
• Reduce risk in implementing business change, and
• Deliver a framework for continuous process improvement.

This approach, combined with our ability to work hand-in-hand with our clients and multiple BPM tools vendors, makes us stand apart from the formulaic methodologies of many consulting firms and typical system integrators.

Business Process Management

Becoming a process-managed company requires a management commitment, a process-oriented architecture (POA), and supporting BPM systems (BPMS).

A Solid Technology Foundation

Becoming a process-managed company also requires a solid technology foundation that incorporates existing IT assets through the use of Web services, service-oriented architectures (SOA), and middleware tools such as enterprise service buses (ESB).

Greystone Group Provides Total Solutions

We provide our clients with assistance during all phases of their transition to a process-managed organization (PMO). We:

• Provide senior management seminars explaining the concepts and benefits of becoming a PMO,
• Develop strategic and tactical plans for the transition to a PMO,
• Evaluate existing systems for their abilities to support a PMO,
• Develop PMO supporting architectures and system implementation plans,
• Design and implement new or modify existing applications, and
• Provide comprehensive training and education for senior and middle mangers, and staff. (Greystone Group describes a curriculum for process-managed training in the soon to-be-published article, “ Reschooling the Corporation for Business Process Management .”