Opportunity Analyzer is a key enabler for continuous business process improvement. A Value Assessment, driven by Opportunity Analyzer, enables senior management to define the initiatives that are required to achieve strategic objectives for growth and profitability. It addresses head-on the most important issues faced by senior business managers:

• Quantifying how the company can become more profitable
• Selecting the most profitable strategic initiatives to pursue
• Aligning improvement initiatives with strategic objectives
• Determining how the business processes can be benchmarked to ensure they are based on best practice to achieve financial and non-financial improvement targets

Opportunity Analyzer supports three stages in implementing a value assessment — map, target and plan. Each stage is undertaken largely at half-day workshops attended by process owners and senior business managers. A comprehensive business review can be finalized within weeks.

Benefits of Using Lawson Opportunity Analyzer:

• Decision support tool for top management to evaluate and compare the value and economic effect of alternative opportunities to improve business process efficiencies
• Puts business people in the driver's seat of IT projects and dramatically increases the chances of reaching business success
• Enables management to prioritize and target which best practices to implement and which key performance indicators (KPI) to improve over time

Opportunity Analyzer has been developed for specific industries such as food and beverage, fashion, distribution and manfacturing, equipment service and rental, as well as for service-related industries such as healthcare.