Shannon Eldridge

Collier & Associates

A specialized business consulting firm that focuses on operations strategy, processes, and technology. Our approach involves collaborating with clients to understand their unique needs and developing innovative, customized solutions. We have successfully transformed over 100 businesses across a range of industries, including Financial Asset Management, Manufacturing, Distribution, Healthcare, Multimedia, Construction, Industrial, Food, Agricultural, and CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) companies. Our flagship BAS (Business Architecture System) Solution is a Cloud-based SaaS application that we developed in 2004. It was created in response to our frustration with attempting to implement ERP systems for companies that lacked essential process documentation. BAS is used to rapidly conduct Lean Complexity Value Stream Mappings of current-state core business processes. Unlike traditional two-dimensional flow-charts, BAS is a multi-faceted, relational dataset that captures detailed data from over 20 perspectives, including Entity, Department, Resource, Capacity, Cost, Process, Activity, Task, System, Flow Unit, Value-Add, Non-Value-Added-Essential, Non-Value-Added, Time, Sanctioned System, Non-Sanctioned System, Data Element, etc. This comprehensive data allows us to architect future-state solutions that include critical/immediate, short- and long-term viable (financially and organizationally) roadmaps. At Collier & Associates, we understand that taxonomies are critical to documenting and categorizing processes. That's why our BAS Solution comes prepopulated with industry-standard process frameworks for current-state analysis. This enables us to quickly identify potential process gaps and provide additional offerings of peer benchmarking and KPI data. We are proud of the work we have done using the BAS Solution, including the significant impact we had on several Alstom Power divisions resulting EBITDA increase from -20% to +10% in less than two years.