Private Equity Consulting for IT & ERP Organizational Change
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Who We Are
As leaders in IT & ERP organizational change in the private equity space, we know how to effectively minimize or eliminate the issues you experience during M&A. With Private Equity Technology Solutions as 100% of our business, we bring a unique approach to ERP that other firms can’t compete with
We take pride in our reputation as a trusted partner to private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Our success is built on our commitment to excellence and our dedication to building lasting relationships with our clients.
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What We Do
Our firm specializes in providing private equity firms and their portfolio companies with the guidance, support, and expertise needed to improve their ERP and IT environments and succeed in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. We excel at organizational change, preparedness, and digital transformation success, embracing the significant challenges inherent in merger and acquisition IT and ERP transformations.
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How We Do It
At Nestell & Associates, we take a unique approach to IT and ERP consulting. We focus on a holistic people, process, and technology approach, serving private equity firms exclusively. Our vendor-neutral stance enables us to provide unbiased advice and recommendations, ensuring that our clients get the solutions that best fit their needs. We emphasize organizational change and readiness and base our practice on sound experience and proven research-based principles.
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Expert Solutions
We offer solutions for intricate, and often complex, M&A transformations by reducing IT and ERP risks and enhancing business value. Our comprehensive IT & ERP services focus on problem-solving and seamless integration of technical, human, and business elements, ultimately maximizing portfolio value. Our hands-on expert-driven and researched approach effectively tackle potential ERP and IT challenges, guiding companies away from potential pitfalls.
Services
Services
Nestell & Associates specializes in providing M&A ERP and IT consulting services for private equity firms and their portfolio companies. We offer a range of vendor-neutral services to support all stages of the investment cycle.
ERP Organizational Change & ERP Support
ERP success requires that an organization be aware of the potential influences that can lead to success or failure. Success is in the details! Our team of experts and proven practitioners are highly focused on private equity enterprise resource planning (ERP) consulting. We excel at all aspects of ERP organizational change; people, processes, and technology.
IT Consulting, Deployment, and Optimization
We have honed a robust framework, tailor-made to navigate the complexities of IT support for mergers, acquisitions, and digital transformations. Nestell & Associates’ IT consulting services are crafted to turn challenges into opportunities. With our record of proven success, we’re ready to transform your IT landscape.
IT Governance
As governance and leadership experts, we render meticulous IT governance services. Our high-level support is designed to harmonize your business goals with IT service and regulatory requirements, minimize disruptions, and mitigate operational risks. We are your trusted ally for disciplined, transparent, and formal IT practice, ensuring optimal post-implementation performance.
Testimonials
What People are Saying About N&A
What do Private Equity and Nestell & Associates have in common?
Our business and operating model is very much like a Private Equity firm. We are strategic but also in the trenches with our PE partners for the full investment cycle from pre-LOI to exclusivity, to post-acquisition. Nestell & Associates’ primary goal is solving real, and not perceived, issues in assuring organizational change success. We are invested in our Private Equity partners and we are highly motivated to contribute to and create a vibrant, healthy, and sustainable business.
At Nestell & Associates, we are exclusively focused on Private Equity. We understand the ultimate value of reliable, accurate, and timely business information for your portfolio companies. The mechanisms for delivering that sound business intelligence are in the form of cost-effective and efficient IT and ERP management and practice. We also understand that to be effective, IT and ERP solutions require the proper people, processes, and support.
As Private Equity is 100% of our business, we understand the “pain points” and therefore, from concept to strategy, to tactical action, to measurement, we know how to effectively mitigate, eliminate, or minimize the pain points. The key to Private Equity success is not to only try to prevent any/all issues and challenges (that’s impossible), but also to handle them appropriately by knowing and addressing the root issues when they rise to the surface.
Nestell & Associates is dedicated to your success!
Our team of IT and ERP experts excels at organizational change, preparedness, and digital transformation success. We embrace the significant challenges inherent in merger and acquisition IT and ERP transformations. We’ve built a solid framework of effective practices with proven successes. Our services are designed to provide private equity firms and their portfolio companies with the guidance, support, and expertise needed to improve their ERP and IT environments and succeed in an evolving business landscape. Nestell & Associates supports each stage of the investment cycle, and you can count on our expertise in assisting our partners in solving often difficult ERP and IT challenges.
“We believe that our commitment to private equity exclusively, vendor neutrality, and organizational culture, change, and readiness sets us apart from other IT and ERP consulting firms.”
THE PRIVATE EQUITY CHALLENGE
Complex transformational M&A Initiatives can have a significant impact on portfolio organizational capital (time, money, and effort). We help manage complex transformational M&A initiatives and de-risk IT and ERP implementations for companies in order to maximize business value. We do this through strategic IT and ERP advisement, analysis, planning, selection, implementation, and support. IT and ERP implementations are a high-risk undertaking that can threaten portfolio business value and exits. Without careful planning and stakeholder buy-in, IT and ERP platform implementations can destabilize workflows and increase operational risk. Our principals' hands-on insight and industry-leading research help steer firms away from ERP and IT mishaps. Nestell & Associates makes holistic organizational change central to its work so that all operations—technical, human, and business—synchronize to maximize portfolio business value.
Mutual Success
Our Value To Our Private Equity Partners
Comprehensive Investment Cycle Understanding
We understand the full investment cycle from LOI, to due diligence, to transition, to exit. Contributing to a healthy, vibrant, and competitive portfolio company requires short-, mid-, and long-term strategy. We focus on preventing failure and properly mitigating investment risk with sound practice.
Partnering for Success with Specialized Support
We appreciate that private equity firms want an IT and ERP support partner that can speak their language and is vested in the organization’s success. As a highly specialized niche firm, our investment to your success is dedicated and unequivocal."
Capturing and Leveraging Organizational Synergies
We help capture and leverage organizational synergies, understand the value of integration of resources, standardization, consolidated and accurate financials, timely operation KPIs, resource constraints, project fallacy, improved governance, and management practices, and we understand exit strategies that create value.
Driving Organizational Change & Efficiency
We know that sometimes remaining competitive and healthy requires significant organizational change. We also realize that accurate and timely business information is crucial to decision making which means that effective IT and efficient ERP assimilation are significant change agents of success and EBITDA goals."
Managing IT and ERP as Catalysts for Change
We know that IT and ERP are both change agents to drive organizational improvements and to create or maintain a competitive advantage. However, we are aware of the many operational complexities, challenges, and constraints during M&A activity.
Addressing Real Issues for Organizational Change
"We know that “ERP transactions are dollars”. We appreciate that private equity firms and their portfolio companies don’t like surprises. N&A is focused on solving real, and not perceived, issues in assuring organizational change success."
Committed to Mutual Success
We understand that our success supports the next fund. We are “all in” to your success!"
Unique Approach
Nestell & Associates Differentiators
Our approach has been proven to be successful time and time again. By focusing on these key areas, we've helped our clients achieve their IT and ERP business objectives from improving IT security to managing complex ERP transformational M&A initiatives. At Nestell & Associates, we're committed to building trusted relationships with our clients and providing the highest quality services you can count on.
Beyond Technology
We understand that successful Information Technology and ERP goes way beyond technology. Successful IT and ERP assimilation requires that the appropriate process and people factors are also considered. Nestell & Associates has a holistic people, process, and technology approach. At Nestell & Associates, we pride ourselves on our unique approach to IT and ERP consulting.
Vendor Neutrality
We are vendor neutral, which means that we don't have any affiliations with specific IT or ERP vendors or suppliers. This enables us to provide unbiased advice and recommendations to our clients, ensuring that they get the solutions that best fit their needs. Nestell & Associates has worked deeply within the PE community to mitigate risk and deliver business value through our objective, balanced, and unbiased services.
Research-Focused Success
Our approach is based on proven research-based principles rather than fads, ensuring effective results across various contexts.
Highly Qualified, Experienced, & Professional Team
The difference-maker is our experienced team that collectively understands the issues and prepares extensively to counter emergent problems in any IT or ERP endeavor. We have had great successes, yet we understand that every project has its own unique life and we fully appreciate this. Every team member is highly dedicated and committed to your success. Our team demonstrates excellence, professionalism and we strive to empower our clients. And, we live up to our "Guiding Principles" (https://nestellassociates.com/guiding-principles/)!
Private Equity Exclusive
We specialize in serving private equity firms and we understand their unique challenges and opportunities. We are one of the only IT consulting and ERP organizational change and management firms focused exclusively on private equity. Our team consists of true experts, pioneers, and proven practitioners in the field of organizational change and ERP implementation.We specialize in serving private equity firms and their portfolio companies exclusively. Our team has a deep understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities that private equity firms face and can provide the expert IT services necessary to support their business objectives.
Organizational Change, Culture & Readiness
We assess organizational culture, evaluate readiness for change, and develop strategies for managing the impact of IT and ERP projects on the workforce. We believe that organizational culture, change, and readiness are critical components of any successful IT or ERP project. We work closely with our clients to assess their organizational culture, evaluate their readiness for change, and develop strategies for managing the impact of IT and ERP projects on their workforce.
Academic Approach to Assessment & Due Diligence
We use sound qualitative and quantitative examination to provide unbiased and objective results and recommendations to our partners.
ERP Organizational Change Research
We are serious about your ERP success! This is why we love to share ERP critical success factors in our blog and podcast. We at Nestell & Associates draw on knowledge from extensive research and practitioner expertise of both project successes and failures. Let us help deliver your next project success.
Contact Us
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Articles
The ERP Organizational Change Success Blog
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Maintaining an effective culture is so important that it, in fact, trumps even strategy.
- Howard Stevenson, Professor Emeritus at Harvard University
Nestell & Associates believes strongly in promoting our guiding principles. Giving to our communities is at the core of our values. Our team supports two organizations that focus on youth education and mentorship and nutrition. Nestell & Associates pledges to support BBBS and Unicef!