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Celerity’s Process and Performance Management practice announces significant contract award

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

McLean, VA – Celerity’s Process and Performance Management practice is pleased to announce a significant contract award to provide their service offerings to a national financial services company in the Richmond, VA area. Celerity was selected to support one of the company’s top corporate initiatives based on its proven track record of delivering high quality results for this client. The Celerity team will provide expertise in business process design in accordance with a timeline that is critical to the success of the client’s business integration efforts in 2011. Celerity’s seasoned process engineering team will partner with the client to develop new and revised business, operational and IT processes. Specifically, Celerity will lead and execute the process analysis tasks, including future state design, risk assessment, development of key controls and metrics and the test & monitoring plan for launch.

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Process and Performance Management Practice Partners with National Financial Services Company

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

McLean, VA – Celerity’s Process and Performance Management practice is pleased to announce a significant contract award to provide their service offerings to a national financial services company in the Washington DC area. Celerity was selected to support one of the company’s top corporate initiatives based on its proven track record of delivering high quality results for this client.

Celerity consultants will provide expertise in business process design in accordance with a timeline that is critical to the success of the client’s business transformation efforts in 2010. Celerity’s seasoned process engineering team will partner with the client to facilitate process redesigns that incorporate the future state vision, guiding principles and best practices.  In addition, the Celerity team will perform process analysis tasks, from current state process analysis to detailed process modeling, using BPMN and gap analysis.  Celerity will be responsible for training our resources on the client methodology, quality oversight for work performed and providing consultative recommendations to the client teams.

 To learn more about Celerity’s Process and Performance Management services, please download the capabilities summary (PDF Format).

Process and Performance Management

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The Washington Business Journal Names Celerity as a “Best Place to Work”

Friday, June 11th, 2010

McLean, VA - Celerity has been named one of the “2010 Best Places to Work” by the Washington Business Journal.  The award was formally presented during an awards ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, VA on June 11, 2010. 

Celerity was one of 50 companies recognized as a “Best Place to Work”, falling under the Large Company with Local Headquarters category.  “People are the sine qua non of any successful organization,” said CEO, Michael Berkman. “Our continued success is a direct result of the hard-work and dedication that our employees put forth every day and receiving this honor would not be possible without their contributions”.  The award represents Celerity’s commitment to upholding the highest workplace standards and their dedication to fostering a positive and dynamic environment for all employees.   

The competitive selection process began earlier this year during the nomination period when hundreds of companies were nominated as a Best Place to Work.  The nominated companies then received an Employee Engagement Survey to distribute to their employees.  The survey was completely anonymous and was conducted by and independent research firm, Quantum Workplace.  It measured employees’ opinions toward their company, managers, co-workers, culture, environment and their jobs. Employee feedback from the survey commended Celerity’s ability to provide a strong foundation for its employees and clients while continuing to grow.

Director of Human Resources, Suzanne Nikolaus, attributes the company’s support of their driven and talented team to making it a best place to work: “We are dedicated to providing our top notch staff with challenging and exciting opportunities and a rewarding work-life experience so they can achieve their professional vision.  We are proud of our commitment to our team and to be recognized among the list of honorees as a 2010 Best Places to work in Greater Washington”.

Celerity is seeking candidates to fill positions in all practice areas. For information on becoming part of the Celerity team, please visit Celerity’s careers page.

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Web Presence Management Practice

Monday, April 12th, 2010

McLean, VA - Celerity recently completed a major website redesign for one of its premiere financial services clients.  The goal of the redesign was to provide an optimal web experience to all customer segments, aligning with our client’s online value proposition, allowing increasing numbers of new and existing customers to more easily engage with our client’s products and service.  Celerity’s team designed and created new tools to help match customers with the products they need and simplify the process of applying for products. The redesign included adding key messages and visual elements that truly convey the client’s identity and brand, and also enabled integrated messaging to showcase client product campaigns.  A significantly improved online help function was also included to assist customers in using the redesigned website.  As a direct result of this effort, our client plans to use the experiences gained to create best-in-class guidelines for future site redesigns and enhancements.

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Celerity Appoints Rob Smith as Vice President of the Commercial Division

Friday, March 26th, 2010

McLean, VA – Rob Smith has been appointed as the Vice President of the Commercial Division.  In his role as Vice President, Smith is responsible for all aspects of business and practice development.

Prior to joining Celerity, Smith served as the Vice President of Sales at Iron Mountain.  His marketing and business development efforts drove annual federal sales to over $50 million. Smith had worked at Iron Mountain since its 2004 merger with Arcemus, a private equity venture company he co-founded in 2002.

At Arcemus, Smith led all core sales leadership and he facilitated revenue growth of more than $4 million over a two-year period.  Smith established a Global 2000 client base consisting of major blue-chip commercial companies, such as Johnson & Johnson, BMW, Sara Lee, Condé Nast Publications and Estée Lauder.  Smith helped structure, negotiate and close the 2004 acquisition by Iron Mountain that allowed Arcemus to gain access to lower cost capital needed to fund growth.

Smith has twenty years of experience in business development and management consulting and has served in leadership roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture. He has worked with numerous Fortune 1,000 companies in a variety of areas including business process improvement, enterprise resource planning implementations, program management and enterprise change management services.

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