Alescent

Alescent is an applied research and advisory company that works alongside client teams to uncover trapped spending, idle capital and unused capacity inside an organisation, then channel it into innovation. It works through a chosen set of partner firms and publishes research on professional advice, projects, innovation and customer experience.

What Alescent offers

• Financial planning and performance — tools and discipline for transparency and alignment on financial goals.
• Capabilities planning — improving core processes such as order to cash, procure to pay and plan to manage.
• Workforce planning and performance — performance management linked to wider business goals.
• Service planning — finding chances to integrate and automate internal and market-facing services.
• Strategy alignment and execution — matching capabilities to strategy and rationalising facilities, equipment, applications and infrastructure.

Who it works with

It organises its work by industry, geography, role and scenario, and draws on partners including Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Apptio, Anaplan, the Technology Business Management Council and the FinOps Foundation.

Key facts

• Partners: Microsoft, HPE, Apptio, Anaplan
• Approach: applied research combined with advisory work