Bluefire : Turning Technology Strategy Into Execution – Leveraging In-Depth Experience to Deliver Business Outcomes

Turning Technology Strategy Into Execution – Leveraging In-Depth Experience to Deliver Business Outcomes

Bluefire are a Singapore headquartered global advisory and interim management firm.We leverage our experience working as a part of our client’s business to achieve their goals with improved technologies, products, architectures, and customer journeys. Why Are We Different? We are hands-on industry practitioners that have experience in turning strategy into execution and measurable results. We work as a part of our clients; organisations to drive programs to business outcomes with their best interests in mind. We build new business capabilities within our clients - helping them to close the talent gap to become self sufficient in new areas and drive results in greatly accelerated timescales compared to organic build up of capability. Our Global Experience Over 200 years of total experienceOver 50 countries covered Our Clients We focus on providing world class experience industry practitioners in these sectorsTelecoms We support many Telcos in APAC and Europe with enterprise IoT and 5G services, product development, enterprise architecture and modern software development practices.Banking and FinTechs We work with banks, payments providers and other FinTechs to roadmap how they are going to both upscale their infrastructure to meet increasing realtime demands, and build great customer experiences.Consumer and Retail. We design and build great, joined up eCommerce and real-world digital retail experiences for leading brands, continuously improving conversion and creating operating models to exploit the full features of modern CMS and eCommerce platforms Our Working Approach 1. AssessmentWe are hands-on industry practitioners that have experience in turning strategy into execution and measurable results.2. PlanningFrom that assessment, we will map out the desired outcomes and a stepwise map to get to the end state.3. AlignmentWe work closely with our clients to ensure that we are in-step from planning through to execution 4. ActionWe don't just plan and advise - we get involved to leverage our experience and act as a part of our client's business.5. ExecutionThis is the difference between success and failure of even the best business advice - and a core strength of ours.6. ResultsWhether it is market development, transformation, digital experience or architectural improvement, we deliver Our Core Practices We focus on providing world class experienced industry practitioners in these areas. Enterprise IoT and 5G Service Delivery🧿 Pain pointsInvestment in 5G is not being monetized in line with investment and a shift in products and go to market is required to achieve growth in B2B enterprise services.Current business models around selling connectivity to enterprises do not fit this new paradigm. This needs to evolve to specific enterprise vertical solutions that solve complex operational problems specific to vertical enterprises.💡 How we can helpWe can bring in industry vertical experts to define targeted use cases that provide game-changing operational improvements leveraging connected IoT solutions.Through our experience and our partner network, we can design, build and scale solutions to enterprise customers.In parallel, we can also evolve mobile operators' sales, deployment and support functions to align to these new growth opportunities. Market Development🧿 Pain pointsMarket entry into the APAC market for innovative technology companies successful in Europe and North America is a massive opportunity but can be fraught with difficulty and delays in acquiring lead customers.The typical approach of hiring an expensive Head of Sales through a 6 -12 month recruitment process is costly and a long delay before any new customer acquisition.💡 How we can helpBluefire can immediately provide outsourced inside sales and high touch business development functions to accelerate time to reference customers and revenue in the market.We have an established network of distribution partners and C-Level customer stakeholders that can drive the first deployments of your products.After the reference customers are deployed, we can help with recruiting and developing the team to support revenue growth on a build / operate / transfer basis. Faster time to market revenue with lower risk and cost. Enterprise Architecture🧿 Pain pointsInconsistent and incomplete as-is architecture view, lacking  clear understanding of current issues and impacts of architectural decisions.Duplication of systems resulting in significant Capex and Opex costs as well as complexity to the businessBusiness operations do not align with business strategy. No future-state architecture and EA roadmap to guide development.💡 How we can helpUnderstand business objectives via interviews with business owners, mapping to enterprise and systems. As-is discovery with interviews and analysis of data sources to identify and qualify issues. Examination of in-flight initiatives.Developing tailored target architecture based on industry practice with proper roadmap and strategy to delivery. Develop EA capabilities as core part of business. Strategy to delivery approach. Build, operate and transfer EA capability. Support with tools & automation. Digital Experience Platform🧿 Pain pointsMarketing want to be able to turnaround changes quickly, without depending on tech to do it for them.Dilemma between switching to new or continuing with expensive current platform, not obtaining ROI.💡 How we can helpOur operating model for Digital Experience Platforms implements a continuous improvement loop of planning campaigns, publishing content, capturing feedback and gaining insights leveraging leading DXP tools such as Adobe AEM and Sitecore.We are experts in architecting Digital Experience Platform implementations to support high performance, high availability use cases. Software and DevOps🧿 Pain pointsHigh friction between the business and technology engineering teams.Pressure to go faster, compromising quality and security.💡 How we can helpMeasuring what matters:  deployment frequency, lead time to change, mean time to recovery and change failure rate tells us where the problems lay.Reducing the time it takes to recover from incidents, by implementing earlier fault detection and smart automation to restore service.Reducing development cycle time and increasing release frequency through more automation, especially test automation.