Why Us?
Our mission is to assist our clients in synchronizing their business objectives with their information technology agendas. When this is done properly, the economic results are impressive and provide returns both now and in the future.
741 Studios is a consulting organization that focuses on the integration of complex technology-based platforms and applications with business strategy. Our markets are the global financial services industry, insurance, health care, media, and advertising. 741 Studios is comprised of a team selected over the years from the talent having well established business and technical domain experience in our relevant markets. This cadre of talent is located in several North American venues (San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and St. John) as well as in Shanghai, China and Yekaterinburg, Russia. Our global delivery system is purpose built to enable our ability to combine an international support system for our worldwide clients, as well as offer an economic labor arbitrage advantage.
The company is privately owned, well capitalized, and without debt. We have financed our operations from inception by utilizing a portion of our operating income. This attention to cash management is an inherent facet of our partnership governance model, and is integral to the way we provide assistance to our clients. Frankly, our focus is not on consultant headcount or quarterly revenue growth numbers, as we are very attentive to bottom line profitability.
Therefore, we are extremely selective in our engagement involvement. 741 Studios is attracted to those opportunities whereby we can add significant value to our clients’ strategic business operations. We are not a rates and resumes organization or a staff augmenter. By design, the company has built its reputation through remediating the very toughest business issues that are leveraged by information technology.
We hope that you are wondering, “What makes 741 Studios different from other consulting firms in the information technology world?” Please permit us to advance our response:
- We form contracts with our clients that are built on a true “win-win” scenarioVirtually all consulting firms operate under a time and material or fixed priced arrangement, and this results in the client assuming virtually all of the risk. Actually, only one organization can truly win in this type of relationship. While these arrangements may be pragmatically the only way to conduct a certain engagement, our company is very much interested in establishing a stake in the project outcome, i.e., basing our compensation on the achieved results. 741 Studios is prepared to share the risk in an engagement and truly put economic “skin in the game”.
- Our engagement teams are comprised of consultants that are skilled in both the business domain and the underlying technology environment You do not have to pay us to learn your business. While we will never know your business imperatives to the extent you do, we are very skilled in the translation of these mandates into technology artifacts, such as use cases, functional specifications, test plans, schedules, and the like. Furthermore, we are very likely to have consultants on our staff who are intimately familiar with technologies that are not inherent in your own existing environment. This represents the true synergy of our engagements.
- Our organization alignment with the client is very simpleThere is one partner who is inextricably responsible for the outcome of the engagement. This individual is involved throughout the life cycle of the project and, from our viewpoint, speaks for 741 Studios. Therefore, there is no bureaucracy in dealing with us. There is only one person with whom to discuss your thoughts and concerns.
- One of our company's underlying differentiating assets is that we seldom solely align to the internal business user or the internal technology supplierFrequently, we are deployed in one of two ways: As the “bridge” between the business and IT, or As an extension of the CFO who is interested in achieving economic accountability for the outcome of a strategic business/technology initiative.
We would certainly like to add that our consultants are the best and that our deployment of technology solutions is the finest. However, these sound very much like what everyone else says! We invite you to speak to our references and conclude personally what they think about us. 741 Studios is very confident that you will be satisfied with our credentials.
As alluded to previously, our clients tend to consider us through distinct lenses depending upon the individual's position within the enterprise.
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