Practice Areas
CAST has three distinct yet integrated practice areas. We fundamentally believe that at the core of successful businesses is a value-driven strategy executed by effective organizations using current technology enablers. We have built a consulting practice that is organized around these three business disciplines and have developed the expertise to assist companies in achieving integrated success.
| Strategic Management | Organizational Effectiveness | Information Technology |
Strategic Management
CAST works closely with clients in all sectors of financial services to develop corporate and marketing strategies in response to changing markets and industry structures. Additionally, we assist our clients in translating these strategies to their everyday practices, resulting in implementable plans for corporate success and long-term prosperity.
Our strategic management practice provides strategic and general management consulting services to domestic and international companies. Our professionals have extensive experience in analyzing both macro and tactical problems, developing solutions and implementing change across a variety of different functions and environments.
Our approach to strategy formulation combines proprietary quantitative techniques with qualitative methodologies that allow management to develop a keen understanding of its current and future competitive environment. With this firm external grounding, we then help clients assess unmet customer needs, market potential, competitive intensity and potential profitability, all within the framework of the company's organizational capabilities.
We bring new concepts to our projects because of our broad financial services industry knowledge and our extensive experiences in other industries. We ensure that the alternatives and solutions we develop are meaningful and meet the specific needs of our clients' environment.
Within our strategy practice, we are able to provide assistance on the following types of projects:
Organizational Effectiveness
CAST’s dynamic, collaborative approach to analyzing business processes has helped clients redesign their operations from the bottom up. We challenge the way companies view their day-to-day functions and guide clients in rethinking their organizational structures. We provide organizational effectiveness services in the areas of workforce management, business process reengineering, cash management, and fee revenue enhancement.
CAST's organizational effectiveness practice provides operational, organizational and change management consulting services to a wide variety of financial service firms. We assist clients achieve breakthrough organizational performance through the design and reengineering of business processes.
Our experience in conducting business process reengineering assignments suggests that the most successful initiatives have several common characteristics. These include: alignment of process and strategy, senior management buy-in and involvement, staff involvement, and continuous improvement. Most importantly, we recommend changes that reinforce a commitment to increasing the value of the company.
Within our organizational effectiveness practice, we provide assistance on the following types of projects:
Information Technology
CAST provides an extensive array of technology-based consulting services based on emerging technological trends and products. Our technology-related service offerings include systems strategy, needs analysis, and systems evaluation and selection.
CAST assists organizations with a comprehensive array of information technology services ranging from strategy formulation to systems development. We utilize proven approaches to IT strategy development and systems assessment, design and implementation that provide more rapid and superior results. Our experience and expertise covers a variety of platforms ranging from mainframe, client/server, and web enabled systems. We utilize our project management and project planning experience to help clients address the multitude of issues they face through systems development challenges.
Our technological solutions have enabled companies to operate more efficiently, more productively, more seamlessly and on a much larger scale than ever before.
Within our information technology practice, we provide assistance on the following types of projects:
- Technology and Business Information Planning
- Technology Strategy Formulation
- Functional and System Requirements Development
- Vendor Evaluation and Selection
- Data Conversions
| Strategic Management | Organizational Effectiveness | Information Technology |