The unique experiences and skills that are the foundation of the JBSO Group enable a range of services across 3 core areas.
Detailed explanation of our services.
Experience and learning from three decades working for well known global brands, retailers, sourcing agents and manufacturers in the Fashion Supply Chain has provided a well rounded view of processes supported by existing and new technologies.
Whether you are an established fashion company assessing your next steps in digital sustainability initiatives, PE considering investment in the fashion industry, or a startup planning entry to the market, we can help you with the insights required to navigate the next steps.
You have defined your strategy, but you need guidance and insights to execute. This is where JBSO Group can help.
The advisory services can range from regular calls and action points as required, to mentoring your team during design of your solution, and many variations between.
Advisory services that help;
A proven track record of working with global fashion companies in the evaluation and implementation of technology with the best fit for the client's unique requirements.
Are you a fashion brand considering utilising Generative AI to shorten your merchandising and design cycles and improve decision-making to boost profits?
Generative AI enables exciting creative process use cases that can be implemented quickly, streamline merchandising and design processes by eliminating low-value tasks, have high user adoption rates, and deliver significant advantages.
It is crucial to consider security, legal, and usability concerns.
Whether your business process is driven by merchandising or design, choosing the right Generative AI tool can help eliminate low-value tasks and process steps, increase productivity, and enable quicker and more effective decision-making to reap the benefits of improved speed-to-market.
Imminent legisation in US, EU, EEA & UK will require brands, retailers, manufacturers and supply chain partners across all tiers 0-6 of the fashion supply chain to work together to provide;
This isn't just a compliance requirement. Sustainability initiatives can also bring economic benefits to the bottom line, as well as ecological benefits. JBSO Group can help you to assess process and technology to prioritise sustainability initiatives by SROI.
Converting the analogue Fashion Supply Chain to a flexible Digital Value Chain brings efficiencies and benefits to the bottom line.
However, there is also imminent legisation, requiring transparency and compliance to sustainability targets, adding greater significance to realising a Digital Value Chain.
JBSO Group can guide you through the process and technology options to enable the transparency of your processes and deliver SROI (Sustainability Return on Investment).
Process comes naturally to the JBSO Group. Whether you need to map and understand your current processes before scoping and defining initiatives, or you need assistance in re-engineering processes, we can help.
Mapping can be performed via interviews, or as a group activity with your project team.
The competitive nature of the Fashion Industry has driven the optimisation of many elements of the supply chain. However, as there are hundreds of thousands of activities in a supply chain covering all partner tiers 1 - 6, there are still many areas in the traditional supply chain that, to all intents and purposes, remain 'analogue'. The pressure is mounting to streamline these processes, whether from competitive pressures, or the imminent sustainability legislation in US, EU and UK. The Business Value Assessment identifes areas that could be optimised, the potential ecological and economic benefits, and a clear and concise action plan to execute.
Working closely with your staff, our team collects information on how your supply chain processes operate, and key quantative data including costs and timelines.
These processes are mapped and aligned to provide a understanding of current processes and bottlenecks.
The processes and data are analysed against industry norms, and in cooperation with your operational team, potential areas for improvement are identified and cost/benefit ratios defined for each.
Using a carefully designed prescriptive process, the teams derive a series of objectives, the strategies to meet those objectives, and a detailed series of actions necessary to progress each strategy.
The findings of the Business Value Assessment are then summarised in a report, and an executive presentation, with a clear and concise action plan with associated outline costs and benefits.
Using a combination of knowledge of supply chain processes, experience of the new & existing technology that supports these processes, and data products built up over many years, JBSO Group can help you to identify strategic opportunities and risks across the Fashion industry markets.
General briefings or focussed briefing specific to your strategy and information requirements.
After understanding your strategy, we can interrogate our data to provide you with Total Addressable Market and potential market value for your business case and investment plan.
As thought leaders in the digitisation and transformation of the analogue fashion supply chain to a digital value chain, we undertsand the processes, drivers and technology partners in this rapidly evolving area.
JBSO Group can help you to understand the changing technology landscape, advise on prioritised actions, and make introductions, that can drive the execution of your strategic objectives.
Services tailored to your requirements - Decades of experience managing successful outcomes in many roles across numerous industries and countries means that we can provide many variations of short term support for your business. We can bring a different perspective driven by experience, knowledge and a creative, pragmatic and adaptable mindset to define innovative solutions that can be quickly executed for best outcomes.
Please contact us to discuss your requirements, and how we can help you.
Sometimes you just need someone to help the team 'get started' or help them assess complex requirements or integrations.
We've been asked to mentor project teams during solution design stage, or to assist with testing a new solution, or even to make sense of business requirements. Whatever your requirement, we will advise if and how we can help you to succeed.
Experience managing and successfully executing numerous project methodologies for a range of companies and clients over many years, enables JBSO Group to step in to assist managing your projects using your methodologies, tools and reporting.
We have worked at all stages of initiatives and projects for clients, and also have a 100% record when requested to intervene and recover failing projects on behalf of a number of global companies.
Quite simply, we're very effective at driving large scale transformation, via a combination of creativity, pragmatism, adaptablility and resilience to ensure the best outcome.
There is a great depth of knowledge and experience of many subject matters, but there's also a proven track record of highly successful outcomes on subject matter which was new to us. We have the attitude and capability to 'get it done', so please contact us to discuss whether we can help you to transform.
An important element of a successful project is preparation; whether testing strategy, converting strategy to prioritised initiatives, or understanding business requirements and setting scope. We can help you to setup your project for success.
A career of driving transformation enables Chris Jones to quickly embed in your business, and lead teams to deliver successful outcomes for complex transformation initiatives.
Chris has delivered successful outcomes in many different transformation initiatives, whether creating a new team/function, transforming an existing team/function, transforming product capability, GTM and internal and external perspectives, or developing a new business.
A business first approach ensures that best outcomes are designed for the business and team, whilst technical abilities enables the evaluation, planning and implementation of the most effective technology for your business requirements.
Creative, pragmatic and adaptable thinking combined with a drive for results creates the capability to push through large scale transformation.
A great team is essential for effective delivery and best outcomes, and when interim management is in place, it is even more important to ensure the knowledge and capability is developed and remains in the team.
In addition to the 'big picture view', Chris has the ability to quickly drill down to the details, whether process, data, or technology. This ability is very effective when developing and mentoring the team in delivering successful outcomes.
Chris has business process mapped / re-engineered more than a hundred globally recognised companies, using various techniques and methodologies, from rapid mapping, to facilitating team based mapping, using simple mapping or functional decomposition mapping techniques.
Chris has experience of many different types of technology, and has mastered many software tools. However, he has a proven track record of very rapid learning and ramp up with new technology and software, and the ability to coach and mentor others.
Chris' greatest industry experience is in the Fashion industry, but he's worked in many other industries, such as Management Consultancy, Marketing Services, Regulatory (Pharma, Clinical Research, BioChem, Nuclear), Publishing, Financial Services. In every case, he's proven how quickly he becomes effective for the business, team and customers.
Please contact to discuss how Chris can help you in the interim.
Whether you need help creating a new Sales Operations function, or to transform your Revenue Operations to prepare for hyper-growth, JBSO Group can help you to prioritise your objectives, define and streamline your processes, manage data, and help you to evaluate, select and implement the most appropriate and effective technology to support your sales and revenue operations.
If you don't have a streamlined process, then no matter what technology you use, your operations won't be as efficient as they could be.
JBSO Group can help you to define and streamline your sales operations processes according to your vision, budget and the realities of your situation. We can make your current investment perform better, or help you create an operations backbone that will enable you to scale.
The data you collect, and the structure of the data you store will have a profound effect on the insights you can generate on the performance of your team and business.
We can help you to define the requirements of the business, the insights required to monitor the business and inform strategy, and create a roadmap of initiatives to create the correct data architecture, implement the relevant tools, improve data hygiene and ensure data protection for your prospects and customers.
Decades of experience driving transformation projects enable JBSO Group to lead you through the end to end steps of defining your sales operations and RevOps strategy, define processes, scope, prioritise objectives and help you to evaluate and implement the best technology solutions for the most successful outcomes for your requirements.
JBSO Group can be your trusted partner that can rapidly become a key player embedded in your team, to help you drive the transformation essential to enable your business to scale rapidly.
Expertise in architecting and developing Microsoft D365 Customer Engagement (CRM) Sales Hub and Customer Services Hub.
Experience working with D365 Product Groups in Redmond, and member of D365 Customer Advisory Board.
Integrations with: Marketing Automation; Finance tools; Digital Pricing, Proposals and Contracts; SharePoint; Customer Data Platform & external data; PowerPlatform (PowerBI, PowerAutomate, PowerApps)