Deciding to make an investment in your business and implementing that investment is only half the battle. Once you have made the expenditure, it is critical that the environment of people, processes and technology in which the investment operates has been optimised to enable the best returns. Too often, we see benefits failing to be realised to their full potential. Example causes for this problem include:

• Poor handover from the Project team to the Business As Usual team means your team struggles to use the investment effectively
• Resistance to change or lack of buy-in from the Business As Usual team means your team is not inspired to use the investment effectively
• Legacy business processes have not been updated to maximise benefit from the investment (This Is How We’ve Always Done It)
• Integration of the new investment with existing systems proves insufficiently robust and your team resorts to inefficient workarounds or legacy processes
• Provisions for increased infrastructure requirements have not been put in place, causing your investment to be ineffective, unreliable or entirely incapacitated
• Benefits are not actively monitored to enable effective course-correction.

In addition, it is not unusual for there to be some ambiguity on how or when the return on an investment should be measured.

Avaelis can help you with these issues by implementing proven strategies that enable you to maximise the return on your investments. We offer the following services:

• Our Investment Management service carefully monitors the benefits realised by your investment and mitigates or eliminates both anticipated and unanticipated roadblocks to optimise effective use of your investment.
• Avaelis’ Investment Return service helps you to maximise the return on your investment by employing proven change management and benefits realisation management strategies.
• With the Application and Infrastructure Improvement service, Avaelis reviews and optimises your application and infrastructure architecture to identify and eliminate ROI inhibitors.
• The Business Process Re-engineering service uses Lean techniques to optimise your business processes, taking into account your current systems and removing tasks that do not add value to gain maximum value from your investment.

When you engage Avaelis in the area of Leveraging ROI, you can expect:

• Improved ROI through the preparation of the people, process and technology environment in which your investment will operate and monitoring benefits to keep your returns on track
• Clarity on how and when to best measure your ROI to facilitate organisational learning and continuous improvement to help you further improve the quality of your investment decisions