Business and Process Transformation

Business and process transformation is the cornerstone of organizational improvement—driving an entity toward greater efficiency and innovative solutions, moving business forward with precision and purpose.

With Kearney & Company’s help, our clients can execute transformational initiatives, leading to streamlined operations, enhanced stakeholder engagement, and increased productivity.

Our seasoned professionals provide exceptional support in the following areas:

Program and Project Management: Execute organizational priorities through structured planning, resource allocation, and schedule management

Governance: Establish frameworks for decision-making and accountability, ensuring efforts align with organizational goals and compliance requirements

Operations and Process Improvement: Optimize workflows and enhance efficiency across all business functions, reducing costs and accelerating organizational capabilities

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Integrate core business processes and data across the organization, improving visibility and decision-making

Strategic Communications: Facilitate transparent and effective communication of goals, progress, and outcomes to stakeholders, fostering buy-in and support

Navigating change is difficult. Successful business and process transformation enables entities to change effectively, seize opportunities, and deliver improved results to stakeholders.

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Agile Provides a Quicker Time to Value for Federal Analytics Organizations

Analytics Organizations should focus on becoming Adaptive Organizations that can leverage Agile to increase productivity, focus on the Federal customer, shorten time-to-value delivery, and thereby increase value in Federal mission operations over time.

Eye on the Future: An Out of This World Challenge

In 2020, COVID-19 flipped the world on its axis. Travel slowed drastically, and the economy shifted, disrupting the supply chain and more. Worldwide, people made difficult decisions to balance their well-being with family and community health and safety. In May, NASA Space Apps, an international forum for individuals of all ages and disciplines to use publicly available data from NASA and other sources to solve real-world problems, issued its COVID-19 Challenge to learn from the pandemic.

AGA Report on the Status of RPA in Federal Financial Management

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic has necessitated the transfer of office-only positions to remote-enabled ones, which means many manual processes should be examined for ways to decrease the time and effort needed to accomplish those tasks. The Financial Management (FM) environment across the Federal Government is large and complicated, as are the systems that support those processes, and this is where Robotic Process Automation (RPA) comes into play.

Three Practical Recommendations to Secure Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in a Federal Information Technology (IT) environment

As technology advancements continue at a rapid pace and agencies face the challenge to increase efficiency across their operational processes, the use of RPA is becoming more prevalent across the Federal Government. This article provides three overarching recommendations for RPA Program Teams to support the successful implementation and operation of the program.

With So Much RPA, Why Don’t We Have More RPA?

Government agencies and companies alike are implementing automation processes to optimize performance and increase productivity, among other benefits.

Bridging the Communication Gap

In this article, we will discuss factors pertaining to social styles, generations, and technology, as well as how they impact our daily work lives. Additionally, we will examine how people must understand and acknowledge these various factors that change the way we communicate with coworkers and clients since today’s social climate is ever-evolving due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Overcoming the Valleys of Change to Get to the Summit

The journey of venturing beyond the status quo and reaching for new heights may go as planned or entail some unplanned bumps along the way. This is like the experiences of many individuals when implementing organizational change.

Best Practices for RPA and Financial Systems Implementation

Implementing a financial system can be a challenging exercise that is critical to the success of a financial institution. Robotics Process Automation (RPA) technology offers the promise of reducing time and cost from this process and helps improve its quality.

G-Invoicing – Are You Ready?

Are you tired of losing Interagency Agreements (IAA) through lengthy e-mail communications? If so, then good news! On October 1, 2022, Federal agencies will be required to implement the new Department of Treasury (Treasury)-developed system, G-Invoicing, to execute any new IAAs.

Treasury Disbursing Office DoD Kearney Blog

How the DoD Can Accelerate Becoming a Treasury Disbursing Office

In order for DoD to implement an effective FBWT reconciliation, it must first fix its decades-old disbursing process, which has plagued its ability to identify and resolve FBWT issues.

G-Invoicing Shortcomings – How Federal Agencies Can Succeed

G-invoicing is not an all-encompassing solution; there are areas in which G-invoicing falls short, such as designing Internal Controls related to Intergovernmental Transactions (IGT) buying and selling, receipt and acceptance, and practical applications of G-Invoicing. Agencies will need to focus on key areas, including data element review, interface requirement review, and updates to Internal Control and process documentation, for G-Invoicing to be successful.

Obsolescence in Opportunity – How Accountants Can Make Transformative Organizational Impacts

The world’s business environments are constantly changing, and technology gives today’s accountants a chance to break free from the confines of their traditional roles. Tomorrow’s accountants could be beacons for transformative change, resulting in positive impact for their organization and clients.

The Conundrum of Embracing the Future While Maintaining our Foundation

Innovation forces the workforce to grow and adapt, not only to meet changing legislation and emerging requirements, but also because leadership and accountants alike must take action to reskill current employees on applications and technologies to maintain relevancy. Innovation will continue to drive the future of the accountant’s position. Ultimately, the institutional and technical knowledge accountants hold will have to be harnessed to couple new technology appropriately and keep resources upskilled on day one.

Evolving PMOs to be Future-Ready

The future Project Management Office (PMO), if structured and scoped correctly, can bring greater focus and agility to accomplish organizational goals.

Client Success

“A big shout-out and thank you to the team for developing the monthly CFO Horizon Dataversity Newsletter. This is one of the many ways [of] helping to implement the goals of the CFO Financial Data Strategy. Thank you for demonstrating the CFO core values.”

Client at DHS

In 2022, Kearney was recognized by the American Society of Military Comptrollers’ (ASMC) Washington Chapter with a large team award for our Financial Management (FM) Strategic Communications efforts. At the Department of the Air Force, our team of professionals managed multiple different channels, including intranet, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, social media, and print products. Our strategic communications outreach comprised a client base of over 15,000 personnel, with an average of 91,000 visits per month to the platforms we supported. We offered customized support related to change management and strategic and general communications, including all facets of coordination, stakeholder engagement, monitoring, and reinforcement.

“Ever since Kearney arrived and set up their Agile Methodology to run our engagement, it has been fantastic. Night and day change from before.”

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