Avantage is a collaboration of skilled and seasoned consultants delivering complete solutions in the area of business process integration. With a world-class team providing thought leading guidance in this niche area, our focus allows us to further refine our expertise and to provide unparalleled value to our customers.

What makes us different?

We believe there are two key qualities that you will notice make us different and permeate our culture at Avantage:

We are a partner, focused on outcomes. We want to redefine what a partner can be for your business. Our role is not to maximise our own interests, but rather to help you develop capabilities within your organisation that are strategic to the success of your company and are clearly aligned with your stated business objectives. We openly share our tools, practices, systems and research to further assure success for your organisation, which is evidence of our commitment to a long term relationship with you, our customer.

We are specialists. Unlike many of our contemporaries, we are not consulting generalists, but rather specialists in one niche practice area. As a result, we have the strongest, most proficient team in the industry. Our specialists are focused professionals in each of a number of different, yet clearly complimentary disciplines within the practice. We offer management strategists, business process analysts, change management experts, communications professionals, project management leaders and technology specialists... each focused on the one practice area of business process integration.

How do we engage?

Many other consulting firms do not invest directly and tangibly in your success or share in the risk associated with delivering solutions to your organisation. We’re different. Though we do offer the option to provide our considerable skills and experience for a fee based on time and materials, we prefer to discuss with you our more collaborative models of engagement:

1. Fixed Fee Engagement. In a fixed fee engagement, we are able to establish a set fee to deliver a fixed scope of work. This model is effective when you need to offset the risk of scope creep and technical uncertainty, and create a level of cost assurance.
2. Risk/Reward Engagement. In some cases, you are faced with constraints that bear significant risk or cost. For example, regulatory requirements may oblige you to change the way you do business by a certain date in order to avoid a financial penalty. In such circumstances, we are open to exploring options that allow us to participate in both the risk and the reward associated with these challenges.
3. Fixed Margin Engagement. Your requirements may occasionally necessitate access to specific skills and capabilities over an extended period. In these situations it may be appropriate to discuss a closer partnership that establishes a “cost plus” arrangement, allowing for a greater sense of collaboration and shared success, coupled with the most advantageous costing over a longer period relationship.
4. Shared Benefit Engagement. Sometimes it makes sense to invest further in a customer solution. In cases where we agree that the benefit can be sufficiently monetised, we will discuss an arrangement in which we invest with you in the project up front and share with you in the result over a given period.