Israel Balderas

Project Management: Budget burn reporting, weekly highlight reports to communicate status of delivery of the agreed deliverables, inputs into the customer project plan development, resource scheduling and any rescheduling requirements, change management, creation of Work Breakdown Structure of tasks to be delivered by the project delivery team. Agile Project Management

Strategy advisory to Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) to attract the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): creation or an IPA, optimization of internal processes, creation of services portfolio, development of an Intelligence Centre, services quality evaluation. Development of centralization/cost-cutting solutions: location selection advisory for BPO, SSC and FDI reallocation. Due Diligence research (quantitative and qualitative). Business process assessment and optimization.

Management Consulting specialized in the Energy Industry. Analysis, assessment and optimization of business processes. Business process centralization solutions: Shared Service Centers. BPO vendor selection. Location selection for reallocation of delivery centers/business processes: offshoring, nearshoring, onshoring.

Industry trends analysis to identify implications for foreign direct investment activities. Conducting research and interviews (qualitative and quantitative) on investment conditions in selected locations. Comparing locations based on operational, financial and other factors. Contacting foreign governments to assess potential support for clients’ investments. Determining measures for locations to enhance their attractiveness for foreign investors. Reports and presentation preparation.

Consultancy, research, and advisory for process optimization and location selection. Manager of the research department (running under the name Offshoring Institute). Cost-cutting strategies definition for globalization strategies: Shared Service Centers and BPO vendor selection. Processes analysis and optimization for back-office processes (HR, F&A, IT, etc.). Leader and main filter of an online database containing information from +90 cities worldwide for offshoring activities.

Development of a consulting framework for Applications Management Systems (AMS) Three months participation in a project between the IT company gedas AG and the consultancy firm Controlling Solutions GbR for the development of a consulting framework for Applications Management Systems. Responsible for the development of process analysis questionnaires, business impact assessment tools evaluation methods, benchmark studies, SOP/Primer document, elevator speech and consultancy training manuals.

Master degree focused on: Strategy and managerial organization, corporate finance, project engineering, business process outsourcing (BPO), global supply and business planning.