Services

If you've been in the business world for a while, you've learned to expect the unexpected. New regulations, emerging business continuity threats and changing business models are all unavoidable realities. When the business evolves, the executive team often recognizes the need to realign initiatives to support the business plan. Unfortunately, accomplishing a realignment presents a substantial challenge in its own right.

Hielan Partners focuses on companies who need help in taking the next steps for business growth, or whose business has outgrown their sales/go to market, operating or technology platforms and will have difficulty with scaling their organizations and operating models. Our expertise can augment your own team while you search for a full time executive, or simply while creating and executing strategies that require expertise and leadership, but will not require an ongoing full time executive.

Sourcing Advisory Services

In recent years, the word "outsourcing" has taken on negative connotations. But as economic realities change along with perceptions, outsourcing is a legitimate option for technology and business processes. Achieving cost savings, meeting increasing labor demands and optimizing your technology platforms are known focus areas for sourcing decisions. But the approach to global sourcing, offshoring, and making outsourcing right for your organization is critical to determining it’s success. Hielan Partners can help you make this decisions that are best for your particular organization, and lead you through the outsourcing process.

If your organization is considering outsourcing a specific company function, Hielan Partners will assist in designing a strategy for your organization, as well as developing any necessary RFPs to help you evaluate prospective partners and service providers. We can also assist in negotiating contract terms, the transition process, governance and ongoing progress analysis to ensure that you are experiencing the value from your service providers.

Should outsourcing not be the right course of action for your business, Hielan Partners can recommend and implement changes to improve your processes. In either case, you can rely on Hielan Partners to speed you through the process and free you and your executives to focus on your core competencies.

Business Strategy & IT Alignment Services

Hielan Partners Business Strategy & IT Alignment Services focuses on the alignment of your technology operations with your corporate strategy. We utilize a framework that delivers a practical and actionable roadmap. We understand that tracking, measuring and managing can have a major impact on performance, but some measure of these must still be incorporated to understand the factors that impact success for your daily operations.
We will work with your team to implement the right balance necessary to enable success.

Similarly, a merger or an acquisition can present a substantial challenge for an executive team. Issues impact every aspect of the business, and failure to integrate operations will impede long-term success. Hielan Partners can provide considerable insight and assistance to your business before, during and subsequent to a merger or acquisition.
We can help you assess the achievability of management's forecast based on the operational infrastructure, as well as help to evaluate the business risks and opportunities from the M&A activity.

Achieving integration after a merger often presents substantial challenges, especially in IT and financial reporting. Hielan Partners services will also help you through a hands-on approach that will develop a blueprint for achieving the expected efficiencies.

Hielan Partners has trusted business executive consultants, skilled in planning strategic technology decisions, large technology implementation planning and vendor negotiations. We are capable of providing advice, guidance, planning and execution strategies for projects that require someone who can translate business needs into technical requirements. We bring a broad understanding of the realities and economics of business, operations and how technologies can be applied. This expertise enables you to translate the technology capabilities into business opportunity and create an advantage for your business concern.

Investment

In specific cases, Hielan Partners can act as an early-stage venture capital fund, leveraging our seasoned business and market expertise, along with hands on operating experience, to the companies in our portfolio. Hielan Partners specializes primarily in early-stage investments in the technology market segment.