Canadian Business Awards 2017

, For nearly 40 years, Pemeco has been providing IT assessment, vendor evaluation, implementation project management and ongoing optimization services to a vast array of clients ranging from high-growth start-ups to Fortune-500 multinationals. These clients are typically market leaders; they leverage complex, integrated technologies to both protect and expand their dominant market positions. As such, they seek a forward-thinking consulting partner to help them plan and deliver complex digital transformation projects. Pemeco fills the need through its expertise and market knowledge, which is truly what sets it apart from the competition, as Jonathan outlines. “Fundamentally, here at Pemeco, our implementation pedigree and independence makes us unique. For our advisory practice area, we compete against system selection firms that do not have deep, in-the-trenches implementation expertise. This makes is hard for them to offer anything more than a superficial evaluation. “In contrast to our competitors, we have successfully managed more than 700 major projects spanning more than 120 different enterprise technologies. Our clients tell Best Manufacturing ERP Consultancy 2017 Pemeco Consulting is a vendor-neutral consulting firm that leads ERP and other enterprise technology-related transformation projects. We caught up with Jonathan Gross – Pemeco’s Managing Director – to find out more about the firmand the range of services it offers. us that our implementation expertise is invaluable to their selection projects. They benefit from our practical, hands-on advice about the strengths and weaknesses of the solutions they’re considering. “Within our implementation practice area, our independence, expertise and methodology separate us from our competitors. As vendor- agnostic consultants, we’re well- positioned to give our clients un-conflicted advice. Often, our clients’ interests conflict with those of the technology vendors, particularly in areas that relate to solutions architecture, extensions to base functionality, integrations, customizations and infrastructure. We’re in a unique position to help our clients craft solutions that both respond to their needs and respect the boundaries of the technologies.” Pemeco’s overall mission is to become its clients’ long-term trusted partner through service delivery excellence. To achieve this, the firm needs a strong team. Jonathan discusses his team and how the firm’s internal culture ensures that Pemeco’s clients receive the very best service. “At Pemeco, our culture is best characterized as professional, hard-working and passionate in a laid-back kind-of-way. We’re focussed on hitting client targets and we try to minimize internal politics that might otherwise be a distraction. The first step is to recruit the best-and-bright. Our consultants come to us from successful careers and projects at market leaders such as Boeing and Sony Electronics. Then, we provide them with the toolkits, technologies and methodologies they need to succeed.” Moving forward, Jonathan is keen to lead Pemeco to further success. The firm is reinvesting in itself to assure its ability to continually deliver innovative services that its clients can rely on to help them dominate their markets. “For example, we’re investing in our sales and service operations to build upon our current momentum. “The sales department has recently welcomed Kim Boyd, BSISE to lead our Business Development and Client Relations functions. Kim gained a wealth of experience at IBM and General Motors and is now focussed on enhancing our business development and solution selling methods. “On the service operations side, we continue to roll out best-practices, performance benchmarks and toolkits that improve our consulting capabilities, ultimately to our clients’ benefit. We run a diversified practice on both sides of the Canada-USA border, and are well positioned to continue our strong growth. As a company, we foresee an exciting future for Pemeco.” Company: Pemeco Consulting Contact: Jonathan Gross Contact Email: [email protected] Address: Toronto, Canada Phone: (647)499-8161 Web Address: www.pemeco.com LB170006 PEMECO C O N S U L T I N G