Business Consulting

In an open, rapidly-evolving world, you need to constantly adapt your information systems to the changes around your business. Through a good understanding of the strategic challenges faced by the business, and IT methodologies (CMM-I, Cobit, ITIL...) Bull’s consultants help private and public sector organizations formulate and specify the architectures, applications and business processes they need to put in place. From defining specifications to change management, Bull supports the program managers at every stage in their transformation projects.

Information systems strategy and transformation: make IT a catalyst for change

As catalysts for change, information systems play an increasingly strategic role in the modernization of public and private sector organizations. As a result, IS departments have to support this process of transformation by constantly ensuring that information systems are in good shape to meet the strategic challenges of the appropriate business sector. That means continually realigning systems with the organization’s strategic goals. Bull can support you in this process, helping to align your business processes with the new direction in your sector, managing the evolution of your information systems more effectively and analyzing costs to improve ROI. Using a proven approach and our extensive expertise, we can help to identify how your systems will be affected by your organizational strategy and target your investment in technology accordingly

• Governance
• IT masterplanning
• Process and database mapping
• Information systems ’urbanization’
• Information systems analysis and opportunity studies
• Investment control and economic analysis

Program management support : Improve the performance of your projects and create value

Based on its broad experience as a manufacturer, developer and integrator, Bull can support organizations at every stage in the management of any IT project. Bull provides totally independent assistance, to ensure that your chosen application meets all your requirements in terms of conformity and user expectations: so you can ‘press the button’ to start live operation with total confidence.

• Shared vision between prime contractor and contracting authority
• Definition of requirements and specifications
• Assistance in drawing up specifications for tendering
• Project scoping and project management support
• Support in qualifying the solution
• Change management planning

Three key values are essential to the success of these assignments:

• Listening, making it easier to reach consensus between the various people involved, both from the business and IT functions
• Efficiency, to enable the implementation of pragmatic solutions. Bull’s consultants know how to practise what they preach!
• Excellence, to ensure that your changing business needs are properly reflected in your technological decisions.

Performance management : organize your IT for business performance

Effective realization of corporate strategy depends on making the right choices about which performance measures to track, and how you track them. This in turn depends on having the most effective information system to measure and monitor those performance indicators. Relying on its BI expertise, Bull can help you to introduce new analytical models – from helping you to define your performance indicators right through to the implementation of an information system to support your chosen performance management tools.

Corporate social responsibility : turn the concept of sustainable development into concrete reality

Our four-step methodology – which can be adapted to your specific context – enables you to take full account of social, environmental and economic concerns in your activities. We help you to realize the concepts of sustainable development within your business and analyze the resulting ROI. Bull leads specific auditing projects such as energy efficiency – designed to reduce the energy consumption of your IT which maintaining service quality – and industrial risk management, with consultants working to provide program management support and scoping studies for industrial establishments.

e-business, e-services, e-government : break down the barriers between procedures

Effective realization of corporate strategy depends on making the right choices about which performance measures to track, and how you track them. This in turn depends on having the most effective information system to measure and monitor those performance indicators. Relying on its BI expertise, Bull can help you to introduce new analytical models – from helping you to define your performance indicators right through to the implementation of an information system to support your chosen performance management tools.