Partnership
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.
Distribution strategy: Selenium
Selenium Consulting is a firm specialized in business strategy and transformation, primarily for companies that operate through a chain of branch outlets. The firm has extensive knowledge of retail distribution strategies, and helps clients grow and implement effective expansion plans. Selenium Consulting has worked on high-level projects in France and approximately 20 other countries, assisting clients on key issues such as:
- Business development – Market screening, M&A, business plans, new business start-ups, etc.
- Sales efficiency – Efficiency and productivity measurements, assessments of potential, performance diagnostics, target size and market coverage, etc.
- Strategic marketing – Customer segmentation and profiling, innovation, new product introductions, trends and prospects, portfolio analyses, etc.
- Management and organization – Sales force organization and management, branch office layouts, etc.
- Operational performance – Process re-engineering, performance management, shared services centers, support function effectiveness, etc.
Selenium has joined forces with Equinox Consulting in order to better leverage each firm’s skills. The combined team has the know-how and experience to help financial institutions expand their businesses and penetrate new international markets.
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.
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.
Sustainable development: Strat’Eco
Equinox Consulting and STRAT’ECO have partnered up to offer sustainable development consulting services targeting the following issues:
- Strategy:
- Benchmark your sustainable development policy against those of other banks to help you better determine the pillars of your own strategy
- Help you examine industry trends and develop new products and services related to sustainable development
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Operations:
- Train your employees and raise their awareness of sustainable development challenges and issues
- Support you in determining sustainable development indicators to enhance your communication and boost your non-financial ratings
- Management:
- Help you manage and track your sustainable development action plan
- Vous assister dans la définition d’indicateurs Développement Durable pour améliorer votre communication auprès des acteurs externes et votre notation extra-financière
Strat’Eco is a sustainable development consulting firm that helps customers determine and implement their sustainable development strategies. Strat’Eco services include:
- Identifying and surveying stakeholders; pinpointing the company’s specific challenges; auditing current best practices; building a sustainable development strategy; recommending operational initiatives
- Supporting customers through the change management process by focusing on the managerial organization, management tools, and the transformation of individual and group behaviors
- Rolling out effective, relevant communications focusing on image and identity; ensuring the coherence of all communication tools and collateral; training employees and bolstering employee motivation
- Implementing appropriate management systems, such as carbon audits, eco-design, and ISO certification
Strat’Eco leverages a network of high-level consultants and engineering firms to ensure relevant responses to all of these issues.
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.
