Your company one level above. Always.

The consulting services provided by Ernani Ferrari to software companies use pragmatic approaches for improved product management, process integration, strategic planning, and internationalization. Ernani will help you identify, design, and execute improvement measures.

Proven concepts, methodologies, and advanced techniques back his recommendations and methodologies, which are enriched by deep experience with different cultures, regulations, and global business practices. All of this to place your company ahead of the market, with improved financial performance.

where to start.

The evolution starts with a diagnostic

The Cross-functional Diagnostic is a fast and precise way for your company to identify opportunities and attain great financial results! It will not only cover your product management processes, but will also pinpoint opportunities and insights related to the remaining processes that interact with product management.

evolutionary and corrective measures.

Analyses, Potentiation, and Growth

Once operational opportunities and necessities are identified, Ernani Ferrari will recommend work scopes and approaches to explore the relevant opportunities in the key growth pillars: strategic guidelines, process efficiency, and internationalization.

Strategic Planning

Aiming at results achieved by adjusting business focus and exploring the potential of the market and each company’s assets, Ernani Ferrari uses approaches that are tailored to software companies, applying the best methodologies, his profound knowledge of the software industry, and a unique grasp on strategy execution. Reviewed guidelines will then better support product management.

Organizational Structures and Processes

Ernani’s techniques and unique experience in integrated process improvement allow for a rapid adoption of methods, organizational structures, tools, and approaches that ensure results—through product management and its integrations.

Internationalization and Localizations

Ernani Ferrari provides his clients with his vast experience in software internationalization and localization. He will help you take your business anywhere in the world, as well as help you choose where to go.

steps.

How Ernani typically helps his clients Select item

3 to 5 days

Cross-functional diagnostic

Step 01
1 to 15 days

Strategic planning workshop

Integrated process improvement strategy

Operational workshops by process area

Internationalization / localization strategies and tactical planning

1 to 5 days

Pragmatic action plans

Step 02
1 to 6 months

Execution

Step 03

Cross-functional Diagnostic

content.

– What to improve
– What to build upon
– Input to define consulting approaches and scope

description.

Diagnostics are highly recommended. Deep and detailed, they cover product management and all related process, are performed in one week, don’t disturb daily activities, and are a low investment for the benefits they bring.

 

STRATEGIC PLANNING WORKSHOP

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– Strategic guidelines
– Resources planning
– Tactical implementation plan

description.

Strategic planning workshops provide an opportunity for deep, but fast, review of strategic guidelines, required resources, operational models, and applied processes. Using customized approaches, Ernani Ferrari facilitates in days what organizations typically take months to accomplish. His deep market knowledge and his anticipation of what execution will require, enable him for a unique conduction of the planning process.


 

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT STRATEGY

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– Measures, priorities, sequence, approaches, and 
timing

description.

A comprehensive evolution encompassing several process areas require planning and orchestration. The Strategy for Integrated Evolution coordinates actions of the involved process areas to minimize effort, expedite implementations, and maximize return on the investment.

OPERATIONAL WORKSHOPS

topics.

– Process review – procedures, roles, tools
– Policies review
– Performance indicators definition/review

description.

Your company is one of a kind, and that is why we design our workshops according to your reality. Fast, intense, and fun, our operational workshops present concepts and techniques, discuss alternatives with your teams, review policies and processes, revisit roles, and establish performance indicators. All that in 1 or 2 days per process area. Workshops combine Ernani Ferrari’ experience and knowledge with the expertise of your teams.

INTERNATIONALIZATION STRATEGIES

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– Markets, go-to-market, organization, products, services

description.


Workshops are used for joint analyses and identification of the best strategies and approaches for internationalization and localizations. They address products, services, support processes, and go-to-market plans.

Ernani Ferrari’s unique experience allows for fast evaluations of all relevant aspects related to the international software business.

Action Plans

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– Detailed action plans

description.

Based on the joint definitions made in the workshops, pragmatic action plans are put together. They ensure the defined strategies, policies, and processes are rapidly implemented, with the lowest possible costs.

Execution

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– Periodic meetings for follow-up
– Change management
– Ongoing remote support

description.

The training and team alignment attained through the workshops yield great benefits on their own, but major benefits come only with the proper implementation of what was discussed and defined. Ernani Ferrari provides ongoing remote support and periodic visits to address questions, provide additional information, and help eliminate difficulties during the implementation of the defined evolutionary measures. Ernani stays at your side until everything is implemented and running.

where we operate.

We have helped software companies specializing in all these market segments

ERP

HR

BI/CPM

CRM

ECM

Portals

Import / Export

Government

Retail

Wholesale

Education

FinTech

Accounting

IoT

Tools for SW Development

Software Factories

Fiscal Solutions

Hospitals / Laboratories

Health Insurance

Cyber Security

Improve your results using Ernani’s experience

Schedule a web conference with Ernani Ferrari and learn more about his consulting services, customizable according to your needs.

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