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The key to successfully realizing value add from digitization is getting the basics right.
We bring 20 years experience helping companies executing their strategy. By applying agile methods, combined with disruptive thinking, we help businesses defend their margins and maximize scalable, profitable growth.
By getting the basics right, you will become a customer centric organization and thus be able to realize the full potential of your digitization strategy.
Highly fragmented end-to-end fuels delivery processes left petrol stations in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Germany “dry”. Tank stock-outs caused customer dissatisfaction, value leakage and despite the problem been tackled many times before, it was never sustainably solved.
We coached executives across departmental silos, introduced value stream thinking to create alignment and turned around affected markets.
The team was awarded Shell Downstream most prestigious recognition, the pinnacle award for “superior customer experience” for reducing South African fuel stock-outs from 7.5% to below 1.5%.
We drove tail-end management of bottom 10% of retailers by coaching struggling franchise partners in a minimum wage environment and helped them to replicate best practices from higher performing clusters.
After three months, HSSE (Health, Safety, Security, Environment) performance stabilized at acceptable levels, net promotor score increased by 15% and convenience retail sales by 10% per cluster.
We were recognized with a Shell Retail service excellence award for Empowering the Front-line.
We up-skilled the company’s future leaders with lean management practices, fixing the end-to-end news article process from launch to publishing.
Quick wins included creation of a “rapid response team for breaking news” and standard operating procedures to make news content instantly available for online and print channels.
Inputs were used as business requirements for new state of the art content management system
To support the 4th generation of the globally integrated delivery model, we were tasked by senior management to set-up two tax efficient service hubs without compromising ongoing delivery.
We applied lean design approach to transfer global functions such as deal solutioning, contract- , resource-, legal- and knowledge management.
The hubs were set up on time and budget, giving IBM competitive edge and generating long term tax savings.
Led the turnaround of the bank’s contact centers located in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town managing a team of 50 subject matter experts and transformed an internally focused bank to a customer centric organization.
Dramatic improvements seen through approval time reduction of car finance loans from 40 – 4 days, micro loans from 30 – 3 days and home loans from 212 to 82 days.
Drove up-skilling of top 30 management and 20 top talents at grass-roots level.
Hands-on led process transformation of apparel value chain into a consumer benefit driven organization embedding agile ways of working to smoothen complexities from a fragmented retail organisation, which is traditionally focused on summer and winter collection approach.
Together with our partner company CBTL GmbH in Munich, we produced a new state of the art Lean Six Sigma certification for Swissmem and their 1300 member companies.
Thanks to the unique blended learning approach, consisting of short high quality e-learning modules, flipped classroom training sessions and virtual group coaching, participants achieve their certification within four months, while realising productivity improvements of 10 - 30 % per project.
Course uptake of internal training were decreasing year over year.
We identified the value drivers for course success and implemented a customer centric training needs analysis process.
Further benefits were realized by nearshoring course administration into the new delivery center in Bulgaria.
Aslam has 20 years’ operational excellence experience, leveraging change management, process and digital innovation to execute strategy. He demonstrates deep industry knowledge in downstream oil & gas, retail and financial services.
He started his career at UBS in Switzerland and obtained his Master Black Belt qualification at GE Capital as part of GE’s enterprise wide Six Sigma Programme. After a short assignment in Norway, Aslam moved to London in 2004 managing key accounts for GE Capital and subsequently joined IBM Global Business Services as Consultant.
Aslam worked himself up the ranks and supported clients in Financial Services around the globe. Building upon his successes, Aslam was tasked to co-create a Global process transformation consultancy for IBM Application Management Services, connecting markets with IBMs Global Delivery Centers in India, Brazil, China and Eastern Europe.
In 2013 Aslam joined Shell Retail as Head of Continuous Improvement Europe and Africa were he built up a team supporting the ambitious growth agenda for Shell downstream, generating $500M incremental margin.
In 2018 Aslam repatriated back to Switzerland and set up his own advisory firm Einklang-Consulting.
He holds a Master Degree in Strategy & Innovation from Oxford University Said Business School, which he completed in 2019 and was awarded a Distinction.