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The Accelerated Solutions Environment yields breakthrough
What is the ASE?
The Accelerated Solutions Environment
(ASE) is Capgemini’s most tangible
expression of the Collaborative
Business Experience. For over 15 years
worldwide, the ASE has been a key
differentiator that enhances the quality,
accelerates the benefits and reduces the
risk of Capgemini’s key consulting and
technology. The ASE’s patented
facilitation environment and process,
fused with Capgemini’s deep sector,
consulting and technology expertise,
provides the most powerful approach to
tackling your organization’s complex
business challenges.
How do we ensure that change happens
for us instead of to us? That old
assumptions are not blinding us to new
realities? That our organizations will
implement the crucial decisions we
need to make? Capgemini believes the
best way to respond to these challenges
is through high-performance group
creativity and collaboration.
We have designed our Accelerated
Solutions Environment to blend those
two core principles in a way that
solutions in days rather than months
unleashes group genius and yields Capgemini creates the right conditions
breakthrough solutions and action plans for businesses to capture the power of
in days rather than months. cooperation within their organization as
well as in their larger ecosystem. True
Capgemini helps organizations to solve collaboration is characterized by
their own problems. We guide you to meticulous preparation and close-knit
find the answers, in turn giving true teams working towards a common goal.
ownership of the solution and its success. This is what the ASE can deliver for
you.
The ASE achieves results through a
process we call ‘decision by design’ Accelerated delivery
utilizing time compression, multiple
cycles of iteration, and massive parallel In today’s business environment you
processing to dramatically increase the need to develop innovative solutions and
speed of solution development as well as deploy them quicker and better than
the certainty of achieving expected your competitors. Your actions must be
value. focused on improving productivity,
predictability, responsiveness, flexibility
The power of collaboration and measurability.
Transforming your organization – Success depends on the ability to adapt
whether making large or small changes – with speed. The ASE’s seasoned
is never easy. A collaborative business facilitation team, proprietary decision-
approach allows you to capture the making processes, global knowledge
exponential power of cooperation. resources and innovative workspace
enables organizations to make
Capgemini believes collaborative
better, faster decisions.
working is the most important factor in
achieving competitive advantage and
long-term success for organizations.
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“Comparing other facilitated sessions to the ASE is like ASE Services

comparing the wheel to the jet airplane. The ASE is so far superior
At a half-day Discovery Day event,
to anything I have ever seen that it would be unfair to say they
learn how Capgemini’s ASE can make a
were comparable.”
significant impact in addressing a
–COO, Consumer Products Company
pressing business issue.
DesignSession® events provide the
opportunity to accelerate complex
decisions that involve between 40-100
stakeholders over one to three days.
Using our experienced facilitation team,
large-scale change model and creative
workspace, we help propel clients
through solution design into
implementation. We address mission-
critical issues that affect multiple levels
of an organization
The Rapid Solutions Workshop®
accelerates the delivery of critical
When to use the ASE technology projects. These one to five
day collaborative design sessions
The ASE can deliver significant value to your company when you accelerate the delivery of technology
need to: based projects elements such as process,
 Build stakeholder alignment – where multiple stakeholders requirements definition or
need to collectively understand and commit to change, implementation planning
overcoming organizational, cultural and political barriers
 Mitigate risks – where there are no single, obvious solutions An Acceleration Zone is a combination
and the ramifications of failure are high of a dedicated environment, trained
 Accelerate delivery – when speed of change is an imperative facilitators, and acceleration techniques
and real action plans are required used to increase productivity, lower
 Innovate – where creative exploration, discovery and learning risk, enhance stakeholder support and
is required to transform your business. improve quality in project delivery. We
deploy the Acceleration Zone at a client
“We are talking about transforming the company. I have been to 3 or project site for long or short term use
ASE DesignShops. If you have a project that is complex, cross to deliver multiple workshops
functional and a hairy item, this is the right vehicle to help deliver Collaborative Workshops use selected
results.” – EVP of Sales Operations, Global Networking and ASE techniques and methodologies in
Technology Services Firm the ASE Studio space suitable for
participant groups of less than 30
people.

“I’m proud of our team for taking

the risk and doing this. No one
anticipated how stimulating this
has been. Everything is in place
and all we have to do is make it
happen.” – President & CEO,
Major Real Estate Company.

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How an ASE works “We have tangible results that we can act on and take to the
bosses. Capgemini, your technique and methodologies really
The ASE’s proven methodology
made a difference.”
aligns diverse stakeholders –
–Vice President, Global Pharmaceutical Company
business, information technology,
customers, vendors, and subject
matter specialists – to define the
future from high-level strategy to
detailed design. The event unfolds
in three phases, known as Scan,
Focus, and Act.
The Scan phase lets participants
explore new ideas and perspectives
while laying the foundation for a
high-performance team. As a group
they confirm the current situation,
create a common language, uncover
critical assumptions and issues, and
envision the desired future state.
Participants learn new ways of
collaborative working. What the ASE can achieve
The Focus phase has participants The ASE has been used to quickly:
take their ideas, then design and test  Resolve thousands of integration issues in the largest logistics
potential models of the solution transformation in the history of the U.S. Air Force
from different vantage points.
Through multiple iterations,  Create a 3 year growth strategy for 7 business units
solutions that are not viable fall  Identify more than $500 million in SG&A cost savings
away as the group understands the
full dimensions and implications of  Create an integrated 18-month execution plan to transform
the problem. The group confronts customer transactions across the enterprise
and removes barriers to change as  Make over 250 post-merger integration decisions,
they become increasingly engaged documenting the associated rationale, priority, implications,
in the success of their collaborative and system impacts
effort.
 Develop a data warehousing strategy
The Act phase drives alignment and
the intention to act. Key decisions
are made, buy-in is gained from all
stakeholders, the group designs real
components of the solution and the
action plans for implementing
them, accelerating decisions on key
solution elements.
“I have never seen a more well-run
session. Corralling and managing
this group of individuals is an
extremely difficult task and the
ASE team handled it beautifully. I
am extremely impressed by this
process.” – Executive Sponsor,
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Journey of an ASE event

Each event is carefully co-designed by the ASE facilitation team and a small sponsor team of representatives from your
organization. The sponsors ensure the business issue is tackled with the right objectives, participants, inputs, and outputs to
achieve the best results. This illustration shows the flow of one three-day event. Activities at your event would be tailored
specifically to the objectives you identify.

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ASE solutions deliver key benefits

 Acceleration – Organizations achieved
three or more months of work in three
days. Acceleration of this magnitude
represents at least 25% additional value
in the first year after an ASE event
 Quality – Through the process of
iteration, the ASE helps you drive a
better solution
 Reducing Risk – Collaboration
generates broad ownership and
commitment to implement the solution,
which allows full business benefits to be
realized with lower risk
The ASE by the Numbers
• 3000+ events for more than 600 clients
• 40% of all clients return for multiple events
• 55% of the Fortune 100 Top Global
Companies
• 44% of Business Week’s Top 100 Global
Brands
“You’ll be amazed by what you discover about your team,
yourselves, and what you’re capable of achieving in a
concentrated period of time. The results continue to amaze
us.” –CEO and Chairman, Regional Mass
Retailer

The ASE in action

An ASE event is carefully designed and managed by a skilled facilitation team in a flexible environment configured
specifically to the work of that session. The acceleration and collaboration processes deliver a results-driven experience for
participants, enabling them to focus on the problem-solving content rather than the process.

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For more information about

Capgemini’s Accelerated Solutions
Environment contact:

Americas ASE Leader – Chip Saltsman

443.655.5820
chip.saltsman@capgemini.com

Chicago, IL – Jill Golick

312.395.5853
jill.golick@capgemini.com

Detroit, MI – Sandy Worthing

312.395.5800
sandra.worthing@capgemini.com

Los Angeles, CA – Christie Hewlett

Burbank
312.395.5589
christie.hewlett@capgemini.com

Harborside, NJ – Steve Killian

201.633.1200
steve.killian@capgemini.com

Toronto, Ontario – Andy Heppelle

416.970.2993
andrew.heppelle@capgemini.com

Washington D.C. – Steve Killian

201.633.1200
steve.killian@capgemini.com

Mobile ASE – Chip Saltsman

443.655.5820
chip.saltsman@capgemini.com

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