WillowTree Advisors Awarded Colorado Master Services Agreement
DENVER (May 2, symptoms 2012) - WillowTree Advisors (WTA) a business transformation and change management consulting firm, has earned a Lean Six Sigma master services agreement from the State of Colorado. After meeting rigorous requirements, WTA is pre-qualified to inroduce, implement, and manage Lean busines process improvement methodologies and projects within any State of Colorado agency or department. This agreement allows agencies to reduce the amount of effort needed select a business transformation partner for its Lean initiatives.
Spearheaded by Colorado Governor John HIckenlooper, the State of Colorado Lean Imlementation Program aims to evaluate programs, identify waste and redundancies, and strategically redesign state services to maximize efficiencies and reduce costs. This sweeping change requires an experienced team of Lean Six Sigma advisors, as well as buy-in from employees. "Making government more effective, efficient, and elegant means listening to our state employees and learning from them how we can do better," Governor Hickenlooper said.
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WillowTree Advisors Gains WBENC Certification
DENVER (April 2, 2012) - WillowTree Advisors (WTA) a business transformation and change management consulting firm, has been recognized as a woman-owned business with certification from the Women’s Business Enterprise Council (WBEC-West) for the third consecutive year. The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), founded in 1997, is the largest third-party certifier of businesses owned, controlled, and operated by women in the United States. WBENC provides its world-class standard of certification to women-owned businesses throughout the country.
“I’m proud that WillowTree Advisors has been acknowledged as a successful woman-owned small business,” said Kathryn Douglass, WillowTree Advisor managing partner. “The increased visibility will support our company’s continued growth.” Douglass launched WillowTree Advisors in 2009 and has 25 years of program management, executive leadership, IT and operations experience. Her team’s value proposition rests on the delivery of big firm results on a cost effective and flexible platform.
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WillowTree Advisors Transformation Services
DENVER (February 2, 2012) - WillowTree Advisors (WTA), a business and change management consulting firm, helps clients optimize operations to become more effective and efficient. Employing Lean and Six Sigma techniques, WillowTree offers a way to rapidly assess any back office operation (e.g. IT, HR, F&A, procurement, customer service and sales) and identify improvements that will make the organization more effective and efficient.
“If your organization is feeling sluggish, needs to get rid of redundant processes or has disengaged employees, it’s time to make a change,” said Kathryn Douglass, WillowTree Advisor managing partner. “All businesses need to take a look at their operations on a regular basis to determine if improvements need to be made, technologies need to be updated and organizations and delivery models reviewed and adjusted.”
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DENVER (October 28, 2011) – Next month WillowTree Advisors (WTA), a business and change management consulting firm, will begin providing business transformation and Lean consulting services to the Federal Government with recent approval from the General Services Administration (GSA) under the MOBIS Schedule, SIN 874.1, contract number GS-10F-0002Y.
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New Partnership with Interfacing Technologies
DENVER (June 10th, 2011) - WillowTree is pleased to announce its new partnership with Interfacing Technologies, a BPM solutions provider. Following an evaluation of other leading BPM software, WillowTree selected Interfacing's Enterprise Process Center®(EPC) as the enabling technology for a client project in the Environmental Services industry. "We were very selective when we evaluated these tools because any software that we leave with a client creates a direct tie-back to our firm," explains Kathryn Douglass, Managing Partner at WillowTree. "We chose the EPC because, not only does it meet the client requirements, but we felt that it represents us well and will serve as a positive reminder of the engagement."
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