Company Spotlight - Confiance Group, LLC
Confiance combines consulting, training and technology to help guide clients through business transformations aimed at improving competitiveness. Its clients come from government, education and private industry.
By Bob Keefe | June 15, 2010
Year Founded: 2007
Location and contact information: 1900 Campus Commons Drive, Suite 100 Reston, VA 20191, Telephone: 866.398.9639 Fax: 866.449.8642 Email: solutions@confiancegroup.com. The company also has offices in India and the United Kingdom.
No. of employees: N/A
Key executives:
David S. Wolcott, senior VP, global managing director.
Navin Maganti, VP, global business transformation
Todd Lohr, business transformation practice director
Market differentiators:
Confiance approaches business transformation as a management discipline rather than a technology discipline by offering a comprehensive solution combining business best practices with technology platforms such as Oracle, SAP, Software AG, Microsoft, etc.
Describe your biggest challenge over the last 6 months and how you resolved it:
Worked with key business and IT leaders at the world’s second-largest food company to communicate business process management practices and deliver a roadmap to meet strategic and tactical organizational goals.
How has the economy changed your business over the last 12 months?
The challenges of the last 12 months and more have forced commercial and government organizations to focus inwards on evaluating capabilities, while getting prepared for the promise of future market opportunities, This in turn has led organizations to realize that "business practices" of the old economy need to be changed, which has lead them to apply process discipline to their enterprise. This has contributed to a significant growth in Confiance’s business.
What are your company’s most important markets?
Confiance focuses on the North American and European markets, for both commercial and government clients. For our government clients we have a GSA Schedule.
Where does your company see the greatest success (markets, industries, etc.)?
Industry sectors such as pharmaceuticals, consumer packaged goods, manufacturing and government.
Key customers:
US Army, State of New York, Department of Defense, Bank of America, Bose, GE Commercial Finance, Alcoa, Kraft Foods, Vodafone, DuPont and Pfizer.
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