Welcome to Hawaii Business Consulting, LLC
Hawaii Business Consulting is a technology consulting company that provides business process analysis, data-legacy system migration and integration, custom software development and technology assessment to major corporations in Hawaii.
Hawaii Business Consulting is not a new company. I first began the company almost 7 years ago when I first returned to Hawaii to implement technology solutions on Kauai where I was raised. I wanted to bring back all the skills and expertise that I had gained on the mainland and leverage that to help enable the businesses on Kauai grow with technology. However I soon began to realize that the new Internet Business Solutions that I was trying to sell, was almost akin to selling nuclear reactors to people who just discovered fire. The concept was good but MY timing was WAY off! (smile)
Now I am on the island of Oahu, and over the past two years I have seen a lot of companies here in Hawaii desperately trying to get a handle of how can they utilize technology to enable their business. My expertise is in helping companies align their business strategies so that technology can provide value and enable its execution.
But what I primarily do is work with senior executives to leverage technology to help them meet their business strategy and objectives.
Let's face it; technology for many people, especially senior executives, is a bit of an enigma. In the last twenty years that technology has grown in leaps and bounds, most senior executives have been running companies day-to-day without the help of most of the latest and greatest technology solutions that we currently have. They have made business decisions on gut instinct, experience, and a helpful dose of good luck. So why should things change now?
Because the world has become a much smaller place. Automation via technology and the Internet are making technology an even more competitive weapon in the marketplace. Technology is rapidly eroding the niches of opacity that many companies have happily operated under which allowed them to live within a margin of error and inefficiency because their customers didn't know any better.
Now it has become much harder. With the pervasiveness of technology and the Internet into every aspect of our lives customers are now better informed, have more choices, and expect more for less. This puts extreme downward pressure on prices as companies attempt to fix the problem by just lowering prices.
But lowering prices without identifying their core business problems only exacerbates the problem. Companies who blindly stumble thinking that pricing is the only solution without taking a close hard look at their internal operations will slowly enter a death spiral of inefficiency, increased customer dissatisfaction, and increased unprofitability. Or worse companies become deluged in all the technology choices, options, and configurations that are possible with technology that they either never get started or begin very expensive exercises in futility.
But thankfully with the technology tools that are available today, and with the right partner to provide insight on the proper implementation and utilization of these technologies into the business practices, technology will serve as a compass to lead many companies out of the storm of confusion. However, there will still be unfortunately many that never make it, primarily because they steadfastly hold on to the belief that the way they have done things for twenty years should still be the way they do it for twenty more.
The goal of this website is not to just promote the services of Hawaii Business Consulting, but more importantly to spark discussion and dialogue regarding critical problems facing senior executives as they formulate their business strategy and execute on their plan. I will be presenting articles on a weekly basis regarding issues that effect companies when implementing either new technologies or new business strategies. Feel free to email me any topics that you would like to see covered or issues that you are facing within your own companies and you can rest assured that all topics will be anonymized as to which company it comes from.
Join me as we explore how technology can be sucessfully leveraged by businesses, and the traps and pitfalls that await those that do not know how to execute.
Aloha,
Soren
Hawaii Business Consulting is not a new company. I first began the company almost 7 years ago when I first returned to Hawaii to implement technology solutions on Kauai where I was raised. I wanted to bring back all the skills and expertise that I had gained on the mainland and leverage that to help enable the businesses on Kauai grow with technology. However I soon began to realize that the new Internet Business Solutions that I was trying to sell, was almost akin to selling nuclear reactors to people who just discovered fire. The concept was good but MY timing was WAY off! (smile)
Now I am on the island of Oahu, and over the past two years I have seen a lot of companies here in Hawaii desperately trying to get a handle of how can they utilize technology to enable their business. My expertise is in helping companies align their business strategies so that technology can provide value and enable its execution.
But what I primarily do is work with senior executives to leverage technology to help them meet their business strategy and objectives.
Let's face it; technology for many people, especially senior executives, is a bit of an enigma. In the last twenty years that technology has grown in leaps and bounds, most senior executives have been running companies day-to-day without the help of most of the latest and greatest technology solutions that we currently have. They have made business decisions on gut instinct, experience, and a helpful dose of good luck. So why should things change now?
Because the world has become a much smaller place. Automation via technology and the Internet are making technology an even more competitive weapon in the marketplace. Technology is rapidly eroding the niches of opacity that many companies have happily operated under which allowed them to live within a margin of error and inefficiency because their customers didn't know any better.
Now it has become much harder. With the pervasiveness of technology and the Internet into every aspect of our lives customers are now better informed, have more choices, and expect more for less. This puts extreme downward pressure on prices as companies attempt to fix the problem by just lowering prices.
But lowering prices without identifying their core business problems only exacerbates the problem. Companies who blindly stumble thinking that pricing is the only solution without taking a close hard look at their internal operations will slowly enter a death spiral of inefficiency, increased customer dissatisfaction, and increased unprofitability. Or worse companies become deluged in all the technology choices, options, and configurations that are possible with technology that they either never get started or begin very expensive exercises in futility.
But thankfully with the technology tools that are available today, and with the right partner to provide insight on the proper implementation and utilization of these technologies into the business practices, technology will serve as a compass to lead many companies out of the storm of confusion. However, there will still be unfortunately many that never make it, primarily because they steadfastly hold on to the belief that the way they have done things for twenty years should still be the way they do it for twenty more.
The goal of this website is not to just promote the services of Hawaii Business Consulting, but more importantly to spark discussion and dialogue regarding critical problems facing senior executives as they formulate their business strategy and execute on their plan. I will be presenting articles on a weekly basis regarding issues that effect companies when implementing either new technologies or new business strategies. Feel free to email me any topics that you would like to see covered or issues that you are facing within your own companies and you can rest assured that all topics will be anonymized as to which company it comes from.
Join me as we explore how technology can be sucessfully leveraged by businesses, and the traps and pitfalls that await those that do not know how to execute.
Aloha,
Soren
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