Nine-step business process flowchart: Marketing, Product, and Finance functions.

Make Your
Business Brilliant

One unified system that links profitable business strategy to effective information technology

Why Is Business So Complex?

Unlike a buildng or engine, business is abstract and conceptual. So it's not easy to draw the whole thing for everyone to decipher and discuss so everyone understands it and heads in the same direction. The Business Cortex shows everyone the value chain, and all the steps from concept to code, meaning the softwares the businesses uses to perform all of its functions. This top-to-bottom and end-to-end view makes decisions easier because you can predict the consequences.

We Can Show You The Way Out Of Confusion.

I mean, we're all professionals, we're good at our jobs (except Johhny, he needs help). Who's supposed to show us how all of this works?

Nobody Knows What's Going On

Everyone is expecting eveyone else to know what to do so they can just do their job. Since nobody's thought about how all the departments should be working together, and how decisions and actions flow, nothing makes sense and you're all just going along.

Leadership Is Misaligned

Sales wants better marketing. Operations needs better training and equipment. Finance vetoes both. Everyone's fighting against chaos. Things just stay the same. Meetings multiply. Progress doesn't.

Your Software Stack Is A Nightmare

You have BI tools. You have ERP. You have CRM. You have E-mail. You have Messaging. Nobody talks strategically to one another. Reports conflict. No one knows which numbers to trust. Or you don't have any of that. Either way, decisions paralyze.

A Comprehensive Approach To Transformation That Works

In 90 days we will help you:

  • understand and redesign every step of your Ad-to-Order-to-Cash process
  • align your executives and directors in the same direction
  • Improve your business with automation and analytics, and a sprinkle of AI
  • will turn your organization into a lean, mean customer-satisfying, value-delivering, and money-making machine.

Step 1.
Market, Product & Profit

Everyone has heard of strategy, planning, and execution. But, the value in a business also obeys this simple sequence.

Step 2.
Strategy, Planning & Execution

Planning and Change Management is the bread and butter for improving how you serve your customers better than the competition.

Flowchart of business strategy steps from market to profit, organized in three columns and rows.

The Business Cortex

when you cross Market-Product-Profit with Strategy-Planning-Execution you get the clearest understanding of how a business works.

But, knowing is only half the battle. The next two steps we put what we know into practice by analyzing your business processes and figuring out the software and skills you need to be effective then efficient.

Step 3.
Workflows, Processes & Procedures

We go a step further and show you how your business processes flow across the value stream.

Step 4.
Software Architecture & Technology

Those business processes use computers and data to push value along the stream.

The Three A's

Automation

Analytics

AI

In this order. You can't get analytics on variable processes. And trying to get insight when your processes aren't stable is the path to madness. Let us help you make sense of it all so you can make more dollars.

Ways We Can Help You

Implementation

Go from scattered processes to integrated systems.

We can help you figure out what needs to be done for all of the work to run smoothly. Whether that's making your frontline workers jobs easier so they can be nicer to customers, or integrating with your suppliers and repeat customers.

Training

Competence is the only sustainable competitive edge

Now that you're aligned about what needs doing and what to do, give all of your staff the skils they need to be better at their jobs.

Consulting

Figure out why you should do what and in what order.

Start with your Market Strategy and se how everything else fits in its place.

Workshops

Get your Board and C-Suite running the same race

Half-day intensive for your leadership team

Get your C-suite speaking the same language. Leave with a clear 90-day roadmap.

Perfect for: CEOs, COOs, leadership teams of $5M-$50M companies

Speaking

Veterans in the front of the room

Keynotes and training that create immediate clarity

Conference talks, association events, and team training sessions that give your audience actionable insights.

Perfect for: Event organizers, companies hosting leadership days, industry associations

Founded by Byron Woodson

Byron remembers excitedly logging into BBSes the night that HTML came out. With a career training, building, deploying, and integrating small shop and enterprise-grade software for manufacturers and logistics, he can help guide your company to where it needs to be.

Deployed and supported 40+ webapps

Integrated multiple WMS/TMS/ERP via EDI/APIs

Built new lines of business and the IT for a promotional items company

Serving Philadelphia area manufacturers, distributors, retailers and logistics companies.


 

Use our cutting edge frameworks

We've simplified our years of experience and hard thinking into accessble graphics

Flowchart of business strategy steps from market to profit, organized in three columns and rows.

The Business Cortex

A unified framework to show you how everything works

Diagram showing business strategy, business design, and enterprise architecture components.

The KOS Business Architecture Framework

Getting from here to there requires robust change management.

These frameworks help guide both how businesses work naturally, and how we work with our clients