Services

Making POWERSHIP^® work for you.
POWERSHIP^®, created by Impact Insights’ renowned visionary Kathie Topel, is our proprietary methodology and provides the basis for all of our services.

Rigorously aligning technology processes, initiatives and teams with business mission, vision and strategy, POWERSHIP^® is a proven way to dramatically improve IT contributions to company profitability, growth, innovation, brand reach, customer retention and market position.

While we recommend POWERSHIP^® as an end-to-end solution, we also recognize some companies prefer a modular approach to address specific needs. For that reason, we offer three levels of POWERSHIP-based alignment solutions:

POWERSHIP^® i3
An IT Impact and Insight report, i3 is an analysis of the state of the IT organization. Evaluating strategy, processes and roles, i3 gives businesses a current performance report card and insight into a future state that will drastically improve employee engagement, strategy alignment and business results.

POWERSHIP^® 90º
In a POWERSHIP^® 90º solution, Impact Insights targets our proven performance optimization methodology on team alignment, strategic action plan for accountability and identification of key areas for improvement. This targeted approach prepares businesses for change that yields bottom-line results.

POWERSHIP^® 360º
This end-to-end POWERSHIP^® implementation is a comprehensive, full performance enhancement and strategy methodology that maximizes the impact of current processes through alignment to the POWERSHIP^® model. Within eight weeks of incorporation, clients are running a highly engaged, higher-performing IT organization that is tightly aligned to business strategy and driving greater efficiency and profitability across the entire business. Even more significantly, they are realizing ROI within 90 days.

POWERSHIP^® Validation Sessions & Impact Workshops
For businesses that have implemented POWERSHIP^® across all or part of their business, Impact Insights offers vision validation sessions at regular intervals to ensure alignment continues and the approach is evolving with the organization. Impact Insights also offers several workshop options in order to help individuals and teams embrace and adopt best practices in business-IT alignment. Click here to view all available Impact Workshops.

Featured Workshops:

The Business Impact of Social Media for Supply Chain Practitioners
How to Strategically Connect with Prospects, Clients & Partners through Emerging Technology

Examine the social media revolution and how supply chain practitioners can leverage its tools for marketing, sales, customer service and brand advantage. This half-day workshop from Impact Insights analyzes the techniques supply chain practitioners can use to engage customers, prospects and partners. Participants will review several business cases in social media success and failure in order to understand what works and what doesn’t in this rapidly evolving marketplace of information and ideas.

The workshop is designed for supply chain and logistics leaders, managers and technology practitioners who are working to build successful social media strategies that deliver ROI and business impact.

How to Build an Award-winning IT Organization
Getting IT Organizations Where They Should Be: At the Heart of Business Mission, Vision & Strategy

Learn the secrets to building dynamic, high-performing IT organizations in this dynamic half-day business workshop from Impact Insights. Focusing on POWERSHIP^®, the proprietary business management methodology developed to rigorously align technology processes, initiatives and teams with business performance, the presentation will explore how the very best IT organizations involve every team member—from admin to senior-most executives—in business strategy and execution.

The workshop teaches IT and business leaders concrete techniques for advancing and evolving IT contributions to ensure they are aligned with business goals, such as profitability, growth, innovation, brand reach, customer retention and market position.

Contact Impact Insights today to request a customized workshop for your organization or to participate in an already scheduled event.

Client Testimonial:

“Executive Forums is an International Organization that creates “Peer Advisory Boards” for CEOs. Kathie Topel did workshops for our CEOs Group in Northern Indiana. Our CEOs were looking for an effective method to get their entire work forces aligned on the Corporate Goals. Our members were extremely pleased with the concepts and processes of POWERSHIP^® in meeting this objective.

The CEOs found Kathie an extremely effective speaker with her personal success as an effective entrepreneur and as a consultant with all different sized companies. Her experiences provided great examples and reinforced the tools she was presenting. Finally, the members found Kathie to be a very effective communicator in that she listens thoroughly to the questions and provides clear answers.  I highly recommend her for a speaking engagement.”
- Tony Hutti, CEO, Renaissance Executive Forums

To learn more about our services, view our capabilities sheet or contact Impact Insights today.