Technology Firms

Manage Across Lines

At Cogent Analytics, our business management consultants know successful technology firms must effectively manage diverse cross sections of the business. Projects, people, business development, bids, financials, and ultimately profit all have to be managed and balanced. Spreading out across the diverse lines of the business can be daunting and Cogent understands the complexities that it presents. Through our business consulting process, we have worked with all types and sizes of tech companies (i.e., data, SEO, web design, systems networking, security, development), and understand your challenges.

• We streamline your sales planning to generate new business and help you define and differentiate your offerings to more effectively get your message out and attract new clients.
• We streamline your processes and increase your organizational capacity to reduce costs and increase your profitability.
• We implement best practices to maximize effectiveness of your people and increase your billable hours. Our clients often see increases in employee effectiveness.

Optimize Systems for Maximum Profits

Often tech business owners have very similar questions when it comes to running a business. We know your business is unique and we offer customized solutions.

• How can I increase billable hours, decrease scope creep and keep projects on time?
  Cogent’s business consulting process provides best practices for directly impacting your billable hours productivity, on-time and on-budget completion, backlog, change orders and scope creep.
• How do I make more money?
  We train businesses to effectively manage by understanding job costing, overhead absorption, how to control account receivables, profit, margins, budgets, financials and cash flow.

• How can I increase sales, get new business and bid/estimate better?
  From a sales perspective, we have go-to market strategies to achieve profitable growth through business development initiatives, accurate estimating and bidding methods, job expansion, better account management, a comprehensive sales program and marketing.

• How do I find and keep good, skilled employees?
  With human resources in mind, we relieve the stress of managing people by addressing employee performance (i.e., legal, contracts, problems, termination), showing how to find and retain skilled employees, management development and improving the company’s culture.

Solutions for Success

Cogent identifies the opportunities in your business and can help implement solutions that foster and support a high performing company. Some of the more common services most frequently utilized, and specifically designed for technology businesses, will set you on a path for sustained growth and profitability.

• Engineer profit, cash flow, and job costing
• Develop recruiting, hiring and retention processes
• Systematize an effective management structure
• Optimize sales and sales planning to generate new business
• Implement best practices to increase client base
• Increase on-time delivery and project efficiency
• Streamline interdepartmental communications

Partner With Cogent

Our business consulting process delivers strategies that are geared toward putting procedures in place that give you the ability to improve and organize your operations to maximize profitably. To learn more, fill out the Contact Us form, and we will contact you with answers to your specific questions. Cogent Analytics’ mission is to focus on your business’s requirements.

Interested in how we have helped other technology firms? Watch these client testimonials.