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Pivot from tech spend to tech impact.

Elevate your software product or business platform performance

There is information in every area of your business that leads to higher profits & reduced costs.


INTEGRATED OPERATIONS & DELIVERY INSIGHTS + ELEVATED PERFORMANCE

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  • If you have ever heard the phrase โ€œworking in the company vs. on the companyโ€ operational excellence is key. All companies no matter the size need to continue working on the company to thrive. Our solution focuses helps you โ€œwork on the companyโ€ using lean thinking to drive technology improvements across your business leading to better results. Key areas of focus include operations, finance, and culture.

    Ultimately the goal is to increase the longevity of your business through a focus on improving customer satisfaction, retention, and performance.

    • Solving holistic vs. individual business problems. This leads to easy to manage technology and ability leverage data for insights.

    • Understanding business problems and solving them with a mix of process & technology.

    • Established, easy to understand technology roadmaps.

    • Understanding and managing technology impact on employees.

  • Creating holistic technology solutions prepares businesses to leverage insights from data across all technology solutions giving executives access to real-time data to make business critical decisions.

  • The result is viable, sustainable, business results leading to higher satisfaction with better performance of technology spend.

How we help make the pivot.

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Your Connected IT Leadership Team>

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    Bryce Arii

    Founder & Managing Consultant,
    Strategy + Organization


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    I help software product and platform organizations unlock performance and drive innovation to prepare for or support rapid growth and scalability. Over my career, I have led cross-functional teams delivering tech solutions that impact millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide.

    My approach: Start by designing outcomes, design for the people using the system, and build solutions that work at scale.

    I drive results by fostering a culture of continuous improvement. I am committed to helping businesses leverage tech to achieve their most ambitious goals.

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    Michael Kriz

    Chief Technology Officer (CTO):
    Managing Consultant, Strategy & Technology

    Mike has a 25+ year record of success designing, managing, and executing transformative technical and process improvement initiatives. He inspires cross-functional teams to execute large programs by aligning technical projects to business results. Mike excels at translating business objectives to high-performance programs and projects that require customer, business, and employee outcomes.

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    Kelly Diekvoss

    Chief Innovation Officer, Enterprise Architecture

    Kelly is a dynamic and results-driven executive with over 20 years of expertise in IT, Enterprise Architecture, Data Strategy, and AI Enablement, as well as Business Strategy and Finance, known for driving impactful transformations across diverse sectors. Recognized as a data strategy expert and AI leader, with proven success in aligning technical and strategic initiatives to achieve critical business outcomes, streamline operations, and maximize profitability through high-return IT and business initiatives.

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    Mattison Murphy

    Vice President (VP), Revenue Operations (RevOPS)

    Mattison brings 12 years of joining forces with internal IT to increase revenues, improve sales operations and transform delivery teams. His specialty is translating how teams want to maintain and grow their competitive advantage into three actionable streams: people development, process optimization and technology improvements. He has led cross-functional teams to deliver highly visible IT and corporate strategy initiatives in both enterprises and SMBs. The results he achieves are improved employee retention, process excellence, visibility into IT ROI, achievable IT roadmaps and lots of high-fives.

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Become a success story.

Weโ€™ve helped Fortune 500 and Global 1000 clients optimize and scale their businesses. We know what youโ€™re in for because weโ€™ve seen it all both big and small.

We have achieved top notch results with our clients.

  • 75% increase in employee satisfaction

  • 60% increase in productivity

  • 30% decrease in technology management costs.

  • $1.5MM savings with a 15 minute weekly call.

โ€ฆand more! We have plenty of stories about how weโ€™ve achieved success with our clients!