Unlike the industrial age, where the key resources were capital and natural resources, and later machines, today’s key resources, beside customers, are the organization, its people and information. Development of an adequately designed organization and information handling may result in unique capacities needed for making a difference on the market, and success.

Organizational Resources: Momentus Management Consultants assume a holistic approach to the development of organizations, encompassing both structure and its culture. This includes the targeted customers and the value propositions offered. The key processes and activities are then derived, followed by specification of roles and competencies needed to execute the activities. People that hold values and attitudes take on pieces of an organizational culture, realize organizational roles and competencies.

Momentus proposes an organizational culture that focuses a balance of goal-orientation and collaboration between individuals. From such a statement an organizational structure may be derived, with its command and reporting streams as well as budgetary distributions; these components are necessary for the purpose of realizing the needed and unique organizational capabilities.
 
Information Resources: Organizations generate a lot of information every day, most of it is just noise. However, some part of information generated may prove to be unique and provide strategic advantage, for instance a unique understanding of customer needs. Momentus Management Consultants have extensive experience in defining an organization’s information needs, its means for generation, storage, processing, and then communication and sharing.

Given the high volume of information generated, computerized information systems may prove to be a powerful tool to realize information handling. It is important to secure that the information systems are aligned with the key processes in the organization, and that a suitable organization is established to continuously govern the information systems. Only close alignment between a business strategy, on one hand, and the structure and function of the organization and its information systems, on the other hand, will provide a foundation for business excellence.