ACUITAS provides management consulting services in two main areas:
The Investment Decision Support solution assumes that a client organisation has a current business strategy with well defined initiatives, goals and objectives. Where a client organisation requires update or development of their business strategy, ACUITAS provides the capability to deliver the relevant management consultancy services, using a combination of methods including the Business Motivation Model, Business Model generation and Strategy Mapping.
ACUITAS delivers its solutions under the ΣGO umbrella, which is comprised of:
Business Architecture is an emerging discipline within the field of Enterprise Architecture. Business Architecture provides a formalised, structured and consistent way of defining the complex relationships that can occur between a range of business entities such as:
Figure 1 shows the core components of Business Architecture as being Capabilities, Organisation, Information and Value Streams. These core components are considered foundational in developing a business architecture for an enterprise. On the outer ring there are other components of Business Architecture such as Initiatives & Projects, Vision, Strategies & Tactics etc that build upon the core components. ΣGO IDS utilises those components of Business Architecture identified in blue.
Business Architecture represents a significant improvement over current best-practice methods, which generally use subjective, incomplete, and implicit measures that deliver varying and non-repeatable results. Business Architecture, on the other hand, provides a comprehensive, explicit, and objectively verifiable picture of an organisation that can be used as an evidence based set of inputs for the optimisation of a specific problem.
The optimisation of a business problem such as portfolio to strategy alignment, for example, can be extremely complex, involving a range of real world constraints such as resources, finances, dependencies, and timing. This complexity translates to an exponentially large number of possible solutions that cannot be meaningfully optimised using standard algorithms, let alone manually.
Current best practices address this complexity by using simplifications such as subjective measures (e.g. assigning a priority to a project). The trade-off, however, is a most likely sub-optimal solution that is non-verifiable and non-repeatable. In contrast, Commercial Mathematics provides the ability to systematically address this complex problem space and deliver verifiable and repeatable optimised solutions for specific business problems.
The integration of Business Architecture with Commercial Mathematics provides an innovative approach for optimising business solutions that far transcends current best practices.
ACUITAS provides training and coaching to client organisations on the use of its Investment Decision Support (IDS) solution. IDS represents a new way of thinking as well as SaaS solution. In order for an organisation to fully exploit the benefits of IDS, there are a range of fundamental concepts in terms of business motivation that need to be inculcated within the organisation.
ACUITAS delivers its services and solutions through Enterprise and Business Architects who are fully certified in the TOGAF framework at the practitioner level, as well as the ACUITAS ΣGO methodology.
ACUITAS places a high value on the quality of the delivery of its services and solutions, and prides itself as a company that always provides the "A" team for its engagements with client organisations.