Reduce Business Costs and Increase Business Performance
WillowTree Advisors is a business advisory firm that works with companies to rapidly identify and implement overhead cost reduction strategies, manage performance and process improvement initiatives, and optimize shared service delivery models.
WillowTree Advisors is unique among advisory firms — we facilitate and support client business objectives with highly experienced advisors and a cost-effective, light-touch approach that allows clients to quickly achieve both one-time and sustainable bottom line benefits.
"One of the most experienced advisors in the industry."
Cliff Justice, National Leader, Shared Services and Outsourcing, KPMG LLP
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Diverse Clients - Flexible Solutions
Our clients covers a broad range of private industry and state and local governments and agencies. Our clients include organizations that need to:
- improve processes to drive out costs and wastes,
- outsource technologies or functions quickly, or
- integrate or disaggregate services or functions.
Big Firm Knowledge - Small Firm Touch
Our team has extensive experience in large manufacturing, health care, finance, global retail as well as Federal, State and Local governments. Our consulting experience is grounded in many years of advisory work for global consulting firms. Our expert advisors, supported by our FlexToolsTM and FlexPathTM processes create value by:
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rapidly identifying cost reduction opportunities and
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facilitating complex projects while
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minimizing organizational stress and workload.
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Press Release - WillowTree Advisors Receives State
WillowTree Advisors Receives State of Colorado Lean Consulting Services Contract DENVER (April 6, 2012) – WillowTree Advisors (WTA), a business and change management consulting firm, has been awarded a Colorado statewide Lean Six Sigma master services agreement for a series of projects to introduce and manage business-efficiency methodology to achieve improvement of business processes within Colorado State government. The State of Colorado’s Lean Initiative is based on the fundamental idea that the State can develop a sustainable Lean culture. The purpose of this program is to generate a high level of... Read more
Press Release - WillowTree Advisors WBENC Certific
WillowTree Advisors Receives WBENC Certification DENVER (April 2, 2012) - WillowTree Advisors (WTA), a business and change management consulting firm, has been recognized as a woman-owned business with certification from the Women’s Business Enterprise Council (WBEC-West) for the third consecutive year. The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), founded in 1997, is the largest third-party certifier of businesses owned, controlled, and operated by women in the United States. WBENC provides its world-class standard of certification to women-owned businesses throughout the country. “I’m proud that... Read more
From Process Metrics to Process Management
From Process Metrics to Process Management We discussed in an earlier post the importance of closing the loop in your methodology – process feedback is the only way to ensure that the gains made in your improvement initiative last beyond implementation or ‘go live’. The management function of monitoring and controlling a new process doesn’t necessarily mean supervision, though. On my first tour in the navy, the ship’s Plan of the Day carried the banner, “Eternal vigilance is the price of safety.” Eternal vigilance doesn’t have to be the price of... Read more
Cloud Computing - What is the Future?
Consider the Cloud computing enables businesses to access on-demand, cost-effective technical resources. Cloud computing has quickly become a game-changing trend in the IT services industry. More than 70% of firms in the developing world, along with 46% of firms in the developed world, are reviewing their IT services alongside the new market offerings1 in order to transform their businesses, improve responsiveness, shore up weaknesses or decrease costs. Types of Cloud Computing Cloud computing is offered in several variations, but the most common three types of offerings are: Software... Read more
Press Release - WillowTree Advisors Business Trans
WillowTree Advisors Provider of Business Transformation Services Denver (February 7, 2012) WillowTree Advisors (WTA), a business and change management consulting firm, helps clients optimize operations to become more effective and efficient. Employing Lean and Six Sigma techniques, WillowTree offers a way to rapidly assess any back office operation (e.g. IT, HR, F&A, procurement, customer service and sales) and identify improvements that will make the organization more effective and efficient. “If your organization is feeling sluggish, needs to get rid of redundant processes or has disengaged employees, it’s time... Read more
Assessing Risk in the Cloud
Questions to Ask your Cloud Provider: Putting your data, software and hardware and important information services to the cloud is not without risk. While cloud service customers can save money in areas like software licensing, hardware costs, power charges and staff salaries, close attention must be paid to risk. The following presentation identifies six areas of risk you should be discussing with your cloud providers. Click on the Red Tabs in the presentation to view critical questions you should be asking. Read more
Closing the Loop with Lean and Six Sigma
Closing the Loop in your Methodology Whether adhering to the tenets of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Demand Flow Technology, or Theory of Constraints, improvement initiatives need to have a feedback mechanism. Academics tell us that there are four management functions: planning, organizing, leading and controlling. At the nexus of leading and controlling lies continuous improvement. To lead the organization to the next level of performance presumes that one understands current performance and has the tools – the levers to push – that will change the current process. Understanding and changing the... Read more
Lean Thinking
"Lean" seems to be everywhere. What started as Western manufacturers emulating Toyota's unique production methods has now been implemented in every industry from healthcare to the public sector. There is Lean Accounting, Lean Sigma, Lean Service – I’ve even seen ‘Value-Based Lean Six Sigma (VBLSS) teams – now there’s a mouthful! The tools springing from this "methodology" are point-effective. By that I mean that the tools are effective at solving a single problem, but unless the underlying philosophy is embraced, the result will be limited to that issue, that point. What's... Read more
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