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Performance Management and Business Intelligence Consulting Services

BMA Consulting Services

The BMA Group has a team of highly experienced and effective consultants supported by similar teams in associated, specialist consulting firms. Our consulting services help management to boost performance through best practice information solutions and processes.

Our solutions are both powerful and pragmatic. We partner with our clients to ensure efficient workflow and transfer of knowledge during a project. Our expertise and experience allow us to add value and to act as catalysts for process improvement.

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Integrated Budgeting, Forecasting and Reporting

We are specialists in designing, developing and implementing, tailored and integrated enterprise-wide budgeting, forecasting and management reporting systems. Typically these projects only take 1 to 3 months to complete. And, we use the software best suited to your applications and resources.

These are vital functions for any organisation. However, the mechanical parts of the process often consume a disproportionate percentage of resources. The analysis, planning and review components, the important parts, often miss out.

Budgeting, in particular, is often regarded as a number crunching chore rather than as a vital planning tool. BMA can help to simplify and add considerable value to these processes. For more information take a look at our budgeting and forecasting section.

Analytical Business Intelligence Applications

Over the years we have helped clients to design, develop and implement a wide range of analytical business intelligence applications. These are detailed in our application solutions section.

Performance Management, KPIs and Balanced Scorecard

BMA has a range of consulting services to help our clients with the execution of strategy, design and development of their balanced scorecards, monitoring of performance, development of key performance indicators (KPIs), and planning for performance. For more information see our performance management section.

Performance Measurement Design

Managers can make poor decisions that can cost them and the organisation dearly if they base decisions on misleading, irrelevant or incorrect measures. The BMA Group have a great deal of expertise in the design of performance measurement systems, frameworks and individual measures. Often it is the conceptual design of a measurement framework that prevents meaningful analysis (for example, poorly structured charts of accounts). At other times, the measure is used inappropriately or leads to wrong conclusions. An example of this is the comparison of a result this year with the same period last year. This simple comparison can often be quite misleading

Market Research

For all businesses and many public sector organisations, an understanding of your customers and your competitive position is vital. BMA does more than the traditional market research company as we assess the most appropriate and practical means of satisfying your market information or analysis problem.

We look at all appropriate sources of data and combine these to provide a comprehensive picture on which to base our report and recommendations. These sources can include your own sales data, scandata, industry and economic statistics and forecasts, as well as more traditional quantitative and qualitative market research survey data. The result is a more thorough and cost-effective solution.

The main areas where we can help are:

  • Market Size and Growth Studies

  • Strategic Segmentation Studies

  • Competitive Position Studies

  • New Product Studies

  • Market Response Models 

Competitive Intelligence

This is a vital strategic tool to ensure that you stay ahead of the competition. Not only will you be continuously aware of the behaviour and impact of your direct and indirect competitors, but you will be prepared with appropriate strategies for important contingencies. For more information on this topic, visit the website of our associates, Mindshifts.

Human Resource Management and Strategy

Many organisations perform poorly or perform well below their potential because of inadequate attention to this area.