At HBSC, we are passionate leaders of Digital Transformation. Fortune 1000 companies and fast-growth start-ups come to us to create digital imperatives–transforming their organizations by re-imaging existing business models, and creating exceptional customer and employee experiences. Our visionary consultants collaborate and formulate new high-impact solutions and then execute them with precision. We help clients discover the opportunities and threats to their businesses to thrive in the Digital Age. 

Delivering tangible results through innovative digital strategy and transformation is what we do.

DIGITAL DISCOVERY

Winning in the digital economy means addressing enterprise-wide business activity rather than a collection of individual functional-level projects. Going digital is about operational speed, agility, and delighting customers through AI-First strategies. The HBSC Digital Discovery engagement’s primary goal is to analyze current market dynamics and look for disruptive opportunities. Our comprehensive Digital Assessment methodology uncovers numerous convergence points across the following areas:

• Disrupt Markets
• Engage Customers
• Empower Employees
• Optimize Operations

HBSC’s industry-leading methodologies and tools help clients crystallize their digital future and execute decisively. Performance improvement and new market opportunities require dynamic resource allocation to achieve desired outcomes. In our experience, many companies fail not because they have selected the wrong strategy but because they move too slowly in the required direction. Experimentation is good, but organizations that move incrementally fail to allocate sufficient resources toward their objectives and often achieve poor performance.

We often find companies with strategic planning processes insufficient to support the business as they primarily focus on short-term objectives. We help organizations recreate their strategic planning process to make better data-driven decisions about the future. We assist our clients in examining new market opportunities and make sound strategic decisions.

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

One of the critical success factors of any broad strategic initiative is its ability to execute and generate results. We help clients innovate their planning process and confront behavioral limitations to overcome organizational change barriers. Only by understanding a company’s people, culture, processes, systems, and organizational structures can lasting improvements be implemented. Quickly achieving organizational alignment across the company is often a differentiating win / lose factor.

Our time-tested methodologies and leadership practices help clients assess current capabilities and change readiness and then focus on transformational change. Our Digital Transformation practice leaders embrace constant innovation, communication, and organizational alignment–recognizing it is the way toward a brighter future.

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS

The ability to predict the future is power. Which of these predictive analytics techniques have you deployed?

• Linear Regression
• Logistic Regression
• Decision Trees
• Cluster Analysis
• Time-series Analysis
• Neural Networks (traditional)
• Deep Learning (deep neural networks)
• Association Rules
• Ensemble Models (including XGBoost, random forests, boosting, bagging, bundling, etc.)
• Bayesian
• Support Vector Machines
• Genetic Algorithms
• Survival Analysis
• Rule Induction
• Factor Analysis
• Natural Language Processing or Text Analytics
• Anomaly Detection
• Social Network Analysis
• Link Analysis
• MARS
• Uplift Modeling
• Monte Carlo methods
• Principle components analysis (PCA)

While most organizations have a strong appetite for data, most of it is locked in transactional systems. This lack of data aggregation provides a suboptimal customer and employee experience.