CTS Impact offers a practical, hands-on, modern approach to consulting across a wide breadth of industries and services. Unlike traditional consulting agencies, CTS Impact is more than business advisors and project managers giving advice from the sidelines. Our team blends real-world industry expertise in Finance, Information Technology, Data Analytics, and Human Resources to both analyze and implement your corporate strategy, all delivered with a collaborative and tailored approach.

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Industries We Serve:

• Financial Services
• Healthcare
• Real Estate
• Technology
• Energy (Including Renewable)
• Manufacturing & Distribution
• Higher Education
• Retail & Consumer Products
• Transportation & Logistics
• Telecommunications
• Business Services
• Travel & Hospitality

At CTS Impact, we’re detailed problem solvers. We understand that every facet of your business is interconnected, and our services focus on implementing processes that are practical and tailored to your specific business environment.

Our Offerings:

• Analyze and document current processes, including conducting interviews and work sessions with staff, and shadowing and performing key processes
• Identify process improvements, including gap analysis, benchmarking existing processes to industry best practices, and identifying opportunities for streamlining and automation
• Implement new and revised processes, including staff trainings and documentation of new policies and procedures

The CTS Impact team offers an objective and unbiased approach to your software tool selection, backed by decades of real-world professional user experience working with a diverse range of ERP, Cloud, and Business Intelligence tools. We understand the importance of getting a maximum return on your technology investment, and our recommendations and implementation strategies come from a place of lived experience in your shoes.

Implementation and User Experience

Our Offerings:

• Software selection and recommendations, including defining business and technical requirements using our CTS Impact Toolkit, RFP development, and vendor analysis
• Software design and implementation for ERP, Cloud, and BI that covers initial design all the way through implementation, including business process design and change management, workflow and system documentation, data clean-up, reporting tools design, testing and data conversion, user-training, and post go-live support.

We believe a successful business is a well-informed business. CTS Impact has decades of practical experience converting disparate data from different systems into a pathway for data-driven decision-making in a competitive marketplace. CTS Impact not only helps businesses organize and visualize their data, we also assist our partners in analyzing and interpreting the collected information to implement predictive analytics and actionable insights, driving your top line revenue and maximizing profitability.

Our team has hands-on user and implementation experience utilizing a robust list of Data Analytics and Business Intelligence tools including:

Our Offerings:

• Data governance to establish data consistency and ensure the quality of data is reliable and meaningful
• Reporting and visualization, including creating easy-to-use dashboards, defining KPIs and metrics, and forecasting models to easily identify trends and efficiencies
• Informed decision-making to translate client data into actionable information, including growth opportunities, competitive advantages, customer satisfaction, and risks
• Predictive and prescriptive analytics, helping clients anticipate and resolve issues proactively

Mergers, Acquisitions, and IPO Readiness are a particular passion of CTS Impact. As businesses grow and transform, CTS Impact can assist with the integration of your new operations to achieve a maximum return on investment.

Our Offerings:

• Acquisition integration for business processes and systems, including standardizing and document business processes, system migration and data conversion, organizational structure redesign and definition, and documentation of standard operating procedures
• Source, organize, and manage staffing during transitions
• Due diligence and valuation support on both the buy and sell-side, spin-offs, and roll-ups
• IPO-readiness

CTS Impact understands the importance of enhancing internal control environments without disrupting day-to-day operations. Our team provides expert hands-on guidance through analysis and development of standard processes and procedures to ensure compliance in a practical, real-world context.

Our Offerings:

• Internal audit, including risk assessment, Sarbanes-Oxley 404 compliance for operational and IT system controls, document standard policies and procedures, and forensics and litigation support
• IT Security, including data mapping, data governance, documenting IT policies and procedures, and SOC-1 reporting readiness

To complement our hands-on business consulting services, CTS Impact also provides staff augmentation and co-sourcing. This service offers our clients the flexibility to manage variable workload needs and to scale staffing up or down for improved cost management.

Our Offerings:

• Finance and Accounting, including staffing for Interim Controller, Financial Analyst, Tax Manager, and more. We assist our clients with the following:
  • Financial reporting, including GAAP and IFRS. This includes month, quarter, and year-end close, SEC and management reporting, and financial statement preparation and footnote disclosure
  • Financial planning and analysis, including budget preparation, cash flow forecasting, and financial modeling and analysis
  • Treasury and cash management
  • Tax compliance
• Information Technology, including staffing for Interim Project Manager, Business Analyst, and more. We assist our clients with the following:
  • IT Project Management including requirements definition and report design
  • Business Analysis
• Human Resources, including staffing for Interim HRIS, HR Manager, and more. We assist our clients with the following:
  • Documentation of standard policies and procedures
  • Development of reporting tools, including ACA and HRIS

Have a unique business need not covered here? Our team can help.