Our Services

Confoma performs consulting services within the entire value-chain for companies. We like to see ourselves as the”glue” aligning business strategies with processes and system support to optimize your business. The aim of an assignment could be a client who wants to increase margins or improve risk management in their business.

Strategy Consulting
Organisations management function often puts great effort in establishing clear strategies to realise its visions. Business targets and operative key performance indicators together with a business plan/budget provides an organisation guidance towards achieving those. One problem arises though when existing working procedures and business process as well as inherent systems does not fully support this. Confoma would assist you in accomplishing necessary fine tuning of processes as well as identifying, analyzing, assessing and recommending a client how to overcome potential hurdles in this process.

Business Consulting
A company’s business model and chosen strategy could mean great challenges to an organisation in f.ex. product portfolio development, investment situations and revised business processes. Risk management or altered interfaces between internal organizational units are other examples of situations, which has to be looked into. Confoma has the experience to provide a client with business value recommendations.

Process Consulting
A multitude of measures originating from top management decisions inevitably leads to a change management process for an organization, thereby requiring middle management to recognize that it is a change management situation. In this, a vital and critical part is to review and assess existing operative processes. In order to optimize those you need strong business understanding as well as appreciating system implications in general but even more important, what applications and tools that are suitable to achieve the organization’s goals. Consultants from Confoma have the experience it takes to assist in this.
 
Are you interested and want to find out more? Please contact us at mats.forsman@confoma.se

Below are some examples of assignments:

Assignment 1

A large sized Nordic Energy company wanted help in selecting a new front-to-back trading system that best suited their business needs, today and tomorrow, given the clients’ unique prerequisites and ambitions. Confoma acted as project managers initially and steered and supported in selection, comparison, design and implementation of the new system. During the project the project manager raised several business issues, which initiated some smaller projects, necessary to ensure that the business aligned its processes with the new system environment to achieve more tailored and optimized workflows and processes.

Assignment 2

A large Nordic Merchant Bank was facing a dilemma around its collateral management and wanted to ensure that their system support were appropriate and sufficient to embrace future challenges in regulatory issues and business developments.
Confoma acted as project manager for this assessment study and identified a number of new business issues, which had immediate impact on the collateral management process. A number of measures were proposed combined with a recommendation.

Assignment 3

A large Nordic Energy company was facing a situation where a strategically important issue the coming fiscal year, was a vertical integration of their business. The main issue was that the internal interfaces were unclear and difficult to follow up on a performance basis.