The changing face of consulting

Best practice is freely available on the Internet and no longer the draw card of previous consulting knowledge-based sales. The implementation of this with the underpinning technologies is where dedicated consulting needs to be focused. Following from this, companies are more prone not to employ specialised and commodity-based IT skills, nevertheless rather allow IT service providers to manage this on their behalf.

“The days of pure management consulting, general business process re-engineering and business analysis are no longer the consulting cash cows of the past,” explains Gubbins.

The parameters in which organisations operate are constantly shifting with trends just as social networking and consumer research in the enterprise spurring every avenue of business to rethink their approaches and utilisation. “The need to implement enterprise systems that are backed by comprehensive support throughout the entire process is vital to safely steer the organisation through an ever-changing environment. The cloud brings with it new challenges and opportunities that blow previous ideas out of the water. The way in which we manage information, secure our organisations, access storage, platforms and applications are changing exactly according to instructions by the minute. Consulting needs to shift its mindset to quickly design and implement in this environment,” concludes Gubbins.

EOH is a business and innovation solutions provider creating lifelong partnerships by developing business and IT strategies, supplying and implementing solutions and managing enterprise-wide business systems and processes for medium to large customers.

Number of subsidiary companies

Technology - Through a number of subsidiary companies, EOH is able to sell, implement and support a range of world-class business applications, including ERP, CRM, business intelligence, advanced planning and scheduling, e-commerce and manufacturing execution systems.

Consulting - Concentrated pursuant to this agreement the EOH Consulting brand are business units offering services ranging from strategic and business process consulting, project services, change management, supply chain optimisation and education.

Outsourcing - EOH offers comprehensive maintenance and support of client's IT infrastructure and applications through the rendering of full IT outsourcing, application hosting and managed services. To boot EOH offers full business process outsourcing services.