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Partners

Equinox Consulting has formed partnerships with top-tier consulting firms in order to better meet our clients’ needs and tap into additional expertise as required for specific projects.
Equinox also works regularly with certified accountants for projects requiring highly detailed accounting knowledge.

Telecommunications: Cepheid Consulting

Cepheid Consulting was founded by four telecommunications-industry experts, and provides strategy, marketing, and management consulting with a focus on the challenges facing telecommunications companies. Industry-specific knowledge is what drives the firm’s core business, telecommunications consulting, and underpins the services it provides to other industries, mainly finance, transportation, and retail. Regardless of the field, Cepheid Consulting provides insight into crucial issues related to the design, launch, and improvement of products, services, and processes.

• Strategy - SWOT analyses; strategy implementation; benchmarking; repositioning; etc.
• Marketing - Positioning; marketing mix; customer promise; product launches; customer retention and loyalty programs; etc.
• Organizational structure - Assessments; roles and responsibilities; outsourcing studies; costing; process standardization; etc.
• Profits - Pricing; business plans; monitoring tools; cost reductions; growth drivers; etc.

Cepheid Consulting and Equinox Consulting have built a partnership at the crossroads of telecommunications and banking, in order to provide comprehensive solutions to the strategy, marketing, and management challenges facing both industries. Our joint projects cover three main issues:

• Providing support during the rollout of new payment systems, including the redistribution of roles along the entire value chain
• Leveraging new technologies to better serve customers and employees, as part of banks’ strategy, marketing, or finance projects
• Adapting products and services established in mature markets to the digital economy, especially in terms of profitability and resource allocation

By working together, we combine targeted telecommunications-industry expertise with a proven track-record leading business process improvement projects in all of the major organizational functions. This enables us to provide clients in the telecommunications industry with innovative, cross-functional consulting services tailored to meet their unique needs. One such example is our joint publication of a white paper titled "Is the Future of Payment Solutions Mobile?" in May 2007.

Personal Insurance: Jalma

Jalma is an independent consulting firm specialized in personal insurance, including health, P&C, retirement, life, and borrower insurance. Jalma works with insurance companies, mutual insurance agencies, and administrators of mandatory insurance plans.

Equinox Consulting and Jalma work together on projects related to insurance industry issues, most notably concerning the ramifications of Solvency II.

Route planning software and geomarketing: OPTI-TIME

Equinox Consulting and OPTI-TIME have formed a partnership to offer financial institutions a complete process of optimization of their commercial organizations.

OPTI-TIME SA provides a comprehensive suite of routes optimization software, responding to the needs of companies that manage mobile teams and vehicle fleets, whatever their size, business or organization. The routes optimization solutions designed by OPTI-TIME SA enable companies to make productivity gains of 10 to 15%. The return on investment is on the order of a few months.

Opti-Time On Demand Product range: this online solution plans and optimizes mobile teams’ schedules in real time, while adapting to the constraints of resources and customers’ needs. It simplifies schedule management and call-centre’s tasks. This solution is integrated with TomTOm Work and allows interaction with the teams on the road. Jobs planned via OPTI-TIME TomTom Work are sent to the concerned vehicle’s TomTom GO in real time, enabling it to find the visit location via TomTom navigation.

TourSolver Product range: TourSolver is the drivers and crew scheduling software that helps optimize transportation route planning. TourSolver generates the most profitable sequence and routing, while taking account of customer constraints, human resources constraints and the specific nature of each of your vehicles.

ChronoMap: Chronomap is the premier fully plugs&plays MapInfo Professional add-on for creating, analyzing and combining proximity maps (isochrones, catchments areas, sectors,). ChronoMap computes, simulates, visualizes using the most comprehensive and accurate digital roadmap databases and helps optimizing geographical settlements, anticipating competition, improving services and making more efficient field operations.

Lean Enterprise Conseil

Lean Enterprise Conseil consultants come from the manufacturing industry and have experience with Lean Six Sigma methods — three of them have even earned Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification. Equinox Consulting and Lean Enterprise Conseil work together at all stages of Lean Six Sigma projects, from assessments and pilot runs to employee training, rollout, and follow-up.

Babyloan.org

Babyloan.org is the first French website facilitating microcredit loans to microentrepreneurs in developing countries.

This revolutionary Internet site linking the public with micro entrepreneurs brings a fresh approach to international development through a triple innovation:

• Peer-to-peer support: The Internet user selects the person they want to support.
• Loan and not gift: The Internet user provides loans rather than donations. At the end of the loan term, they are reimbursed fully.
• Follow up and transparency: The Internet user knows where his money goes and for what purpose; he receives regular information and impact measure on the supported micro entrepreneur.

Babyloan.org is also a fun, educational and communitarian website to learn and exchange about microfinance.
Babyloan is a "social business" of solidarity for and by all via a numeric tool.

The partnership between Equinox Consulting and Babyloan was outset from the beginning. Equinox, in constant search for innovation and keen to develop the sector of microfinance, was the first partner of "Les Rencontres de Babyloan" and we will work together for the implementation of common projects towards more humane and responsible finance.