Paragon Digital Consulting

In today’s world, businesses need to remain adaptable to the evolving operational and workforce requirements for bringing transformational change within their organizations. In this pursuit, they often forget that the concept of business transformation and change management goes beyond implementing a new technology.

A low risk, high-value, approach to change management by helping employees and teams to align with the new technology adoptions and processes is essential for improving the ROI and agility of organizations. This is where Paragon Digital Consulting makes a world of difference.

The boutique consulting firm enables organizations to navigate the intricacies of managing change by building strategies to thrive in today’s digital economy. It equips HR departments with the right tools and technologies to carry out seamless transformative change in organizations by minimizing risks.

“Our hands-on approach to understanding discrete business challenges and advising leaders on how to navigate complex team dynamics is where we differ from the competition,” says Sarah-Mae Amde, MBA - Managing Director and CEO. A trusted advisor and change partner, Paragon helps leaders to get their organizations be ready, willing and able to change legacy behaviours, and adopt new technologies for enhancing capabilities. Its clientele comprises of small and medium-sized businesses with annual revenues of $1 billion to $5 billion that operate internationally. Its services are rooted in people, processes, and technology to pave the way for best-in-class change management.

A brainchild of Amde, Paragon creates best-fit strategies to deliver a positive transformation experience for everyone involved, leaders, individuals and teams. Practicing what it preaches, it provides well-rounded support throughout a client’s change journey to bring transparency and long-lasting results.

Adaptive Strategies for Organizational Change Management

Paragon believes that to steward effective change management organizations must align their goals with their business needs. One way to effectively implement a change that sustains is to bring an immersive strategy combining organizations goals while aligning people to the new technology. To this end, Paragon abides by a comprehensive framework for bringing the desired change in clients’ organizations within a short time period.

A typical client engagement at Paragon begins with a discovery session to help leaders define their vision of the future, and understand where they are right now, and the outcomes they want to achieve. Whether employee engagement, process, or cost reduction-related requirements, it has best-in-class program change management, project-level change support and business transformation services to meet or exceed client expectations.

The program change management is more about changing legacy processes, implementing new technologies and building strategies that expedite adoption of newer processes. Whereas, Team- Level change support improves the efficiency of the teams and individuals and increases employee engagement to create high performing teams.

Finally adding to this trilogy is business transformation¬– an end outcome, helping clients to reflect the intended organizational change through increased employee participation and enhancing ROI.

As behavioral specialists, Paragon also conducts workshops or engagement sessions with leaders to analyze what’s helping or hindering their teams. Based on these insights, it creates custom strategies to ensure hands-on, white-glove service for meeting client specifications.

“Our plans and recommendations are transformative for every organization, as they get 10-1 return on their investment with quantifiable increases in productivity within a year of transforming,” says Amde.

Applauding Client Successes

Today, Paragon is one of the most sought-after organizations among its clients. Illustrating its line of capabilities is its most recent collaboration with a prominent international client that was struggling with transforming their supply chain. The client approached Paragon as they were facing issues while enabling their teams to support the technology that was implemented by another vendor.

The client was mid-flight in their transformation and it was failing. The team Paragon quickly onboarded the client, and prepared a roadmap to accomplish the desired transformation. It analyzed the clients’ problem, designed a strategy and implemented an engagement plan with their employees.

Our hands-on approach to understanding discrete business challenges is where we differ from the competition

Paragon’s well-planned strategies and framework enabled the client to quickly and effortlessly achieve the intended digital transformation results. It worked with their 24 supply chain centers across North America, and build strategies and actionable plans to ensure their project met the deadline, with everyone aligned, on-time and budget-wise. The client was appreciative, as their framework could facilitate large-scale change in the future, projecting a 12-1 return on their investment and a 50% increase in productivity within a year of transformation.

Steering Businesses toward Successful Outcomes

Similar instances of client success are a testimony to Paragon’s indomitable zeal to create a well-integrated approach to change management. The credit for this success and the momentum it has gained undoubtedly goes to its founder, Amde, who defined new heights for Paragon with her keen focus on people and technology.

At the heart of Paragon is its diverse team of highly experienced behavioral, communication, change, and training professionals who work day in and day out to help clients achieve the transformation they want. Each member has more than a decade of experience in change management and brings different perspectives, experience, and education while devising and implementing change strategies.

A client-first company, Paragon is always looking for and creating new tools and technologies to help clients transform with ease. It provides services that meet the needs of each client. To manifest a culture of increased business commitment and meet growing industry demands, it regularly participates in conferences and seminars and learns new technology.

For the road ahead, Paragon is all set to touch new peaks by helping more clients achieve their transformational journey.