CherryRoad’s strategic services can help you to create a future vision of your organization, craft a strategic roadmap for getting there, and ensure goals throughout the enterprise are aligned to keep you on course with your vision. Once these elements are in place, we can help you execute tactical initiatives to facilitate your transformation.

Our visioning expertise results in an objective perspective on what your organization is trying to become and where it desires to go. It can provide you with insights that help you create a picture of the future state, or “what you want to look like” at some point in the future.

We approach visioning as organized brainstorming sessions in which we help clients determine what they want to achieve and develop an actionable plan to get there. This process effectively builds a picture of the future that is supported by management and serves as a focal point for the organization. Actionable outputs of these sessions can include:

• A strategic roadmap with quick-hit and longer-term initiatives to achieve your vision
• High-level process flows with future-state characteristics
• Identification of enabling technologies
• Guiding principles for prioritization and decision making
• Risks to achieving your vision and suggested mitigating actions
• Logical next steps for your organization


Through visioning, CherryRoad will help your organization define its mission, goals, and values; design future-state processes; and develop an effective structure and path to achieve its goals.

Many projects do not realize their potential benefits because a barrier to success goes unnoticed until the project is well underway. For example, perhaps the change is driven by technology rather than business objectives, or the expectations of multiple departments are not in sync. Before starting a large project, our goal alignment guidance will identify the misperceptions and potential risks and ensure that stakeholders share the same expectations and measurements of success. Our approach enables you to make necessary improvements – redesigning processes, developing a communication plan, refining a training plan, revising project scope – before starting a major initiative, to better ensure its success.

If you are considering a replacement or addition to your current enterprise solutions, CherryRoad provides Assessment and Vendor Selection expertise which allows your team to maximize their engagement in the process. CherryRoad blends our proven methodology with strong experience in technology, service delivery, and enterprise applications to help your organization expedite the vendor selection and evaluation process. Similarly we can assist you with an assessment of your current solution to ensure that a replacement strategy is appropriate to meet your business needs. Our tools and market knowledge not only create efficiencies but ensure that your assessment and selection is built upon qualitative business rationale and benefits.

Your software is only as effective as your business processes. However, you don’t have to endure the old and radical approach of process re-engineering to significantly improve results. CherryRoad’s business process optimization (BPO) program will help you boost staff productivity and maximize performance of your enterprise technology. In the past, ignoring process opportunities and specific measurement programs often initiated a destructive cycle, as organizations disappointed with their project results blamed their technology, and then were reluctant to further invest in systems and related processes. This drove them to inadequately fund and scope technology upgrades and expansions, which crippled their ability to leverage the technology and led to even further disappointment. With CherryRoad’s BPO program, you can break this cycle and finally achieve the enterprise technology performance and payback you expect.

Once our consultants have evaluated your business goals and processes, we’ll craft and implement actionable strategic recommendations. This includes streamlining processes as well as eliminating redundancies and non-value-added work. For example, we’ve helped organizations optimize specific processes in order to recruit faster and better, reduce expenses, close the books faster, focus collections, streamline payroll, and more. Our approach combines both functional and industry best practices with organizational improvements, which we carefully integrate with performance measurements to drive continuous progress.

Transformation – whether it’s an entirely new strategic direction, the optimization of processes, or a major technology implementation or upgrade – can only succeed with the involvement and commitment of your employees. Yet often, it’s human nature for people to resist change. Their fear of the unknown breeds many forms of resistance, including apathy and reluctance, outspoken criticisms and distracting rumors, and decreased morale and productivity. Regardless of how it manifests, this resistance can derail your initiative if left unchecked.

To maximize success, your employees must embrace the changes. CherryRoad’s systematic approach to Change Management will effectively inform, engage, and prepare employees during a transition to ensure your initiative is deployed as planned. First, we start by understanding the nature of the change, the causes and types of resistance, employees’ perceptions and concerns, and the different ways in which employee groups are impacted. Then, we tailor a Change Management program specifically aligned to your initiative – one that integrates our proven methods of communications planning and execution, process and system training, and organizational development.

CherryRoad’s Change Management programs create active sponsorship and wage an effective communications campaign to foster buy-in. We also prepare employees to function in the future environment as well as install organizational mechanisms that ensure benefits are achieved and sustained. When combined, these activities develop individuals comfortable with change and prepared to excel in the new environment. To download our free Change Management White paper click here.

CherryRoad’s management consultants specialize in helping our customers leverage their investment in Oracle PeopleSoft by transforming enterprise data into actionable information. Oracle provides a rich analytics toolset using OBIEE and Hyperion to complement their robust enterprise suite of applications. Our combined expertise in Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise applications and strategic business intelligence provides you with a foundation that expedites results for ongoing decision making and planning.

CherryRoad will help you develop a Business Intelligence RoadMap that provides recommendations from proper use of Oracle or 3rd party tools with a scalable strategy to transform your Enterprise data into relevant information and knowledge.

Using the RoadMap as our plan, CherryRoad can provide expertise to implement the solution with an emphasis on knowledge transfer to your team. Specifically, we’ll help you develop your Business Intelligence foundation with ETLs to drive data from both Oracle and disparate transactional systems to the data models, then build multi-dimensional reporting capabilities.

CherryRoad provides in-depth expertise with leading technology, analytics and ERP systems to help you transform your data into valuable business intelligence for significantly improved decision making and long-range planning.