About BusinessOne
We are your trusted advisors.
BusinessOne helps public and private sector organizations bridge the gap between strategy and execution through executive leadership, digital transformation, AI adoption, and organizational modernization.
Who we are
BusinessOne is a strategic advisory firm that helps organizations translate vision into measurable outcomes through leadership, transformation, modernization, and performance improvement.
What we do
Areas of expertise
Our advisors help organizations navigate complex business, technology, and transformation challenges while building internal capabilities for long-term success.
- 01Leadership Advisory
- 02Digital Transformation
- 03AI Strategy & Governance
- 04Smart Cities
- 05Organizational Change
- 06Program & Portfolio Delivery
Why we exist
Our Vision, Mission and Values
Our Vision
To be a trusted partner helping organizations achieve strategic advantage through leadership, transformation, and innovation.
What this meansWe help organizations create alignment across their people, partners, customers, communities, and stakeholders to achieve sustainable success.
Our Mission
We help leaders transform their organizations through leadership, guidance, and execution that turn strategy into sustainable results.
How we do thisWe provide strategic advisory, leadership, and operational support to help organizations improve performance, execute priorities, build internal capability, and achieve their long-term objectives.
Our Values
- Customer Focus
- Collaboration
- Compassion
- Ethics
- Integrity
- Making a Difference
Our values govern the way we work with each other, our clients and partners. We not only focus on fulfilling our mission to achieve our vision but we are focused on enabling our customer’s vision and mission. We listen, work collaboratively, act with compassion and integrity, communicate with transparency and ensure an ethical approach in everything we do. It is these values which allow us to have a sense of shared purpose to “make a difference” enabling teams, leaders, and cultures to transform into high performing, values-driven organizations.
Together we can match the pace of change and do great things for the future.
From our founder
Dana Saltern
Founder, BusinessOne® Corporation
The pace of change keeps accelerating, and with it the need for collaboration, accountability and innovation. Digital technology, constant connectivity and shifting expectations are reshaping how every organization works. It can feel daunting, but there has never been more opportunity.
Our models, tools and insights help leaders build the agility to adapt and thrive: to plan and execute new strategies, fund transformation, drive cultural change and build organizations that keep improving.
Our clients let us see into their future with them and help them pave the path forward. With our partners and associates, we bring the expertise to make that path real, rooted in best practices, accountability and continuous improvement.
Together, we can match the pace of change and equip each other for the future.
How we work
The BusinessOne MAP™
We assess your organization against five levels of maturity across five pillars, then build a capability roadmap to close the gaps. Our advisors work alongside your executive team to put it in place.
- 01
Business Leadership and Strategy
How executives lead, decide and keep strategy focused on outcomes.
- 02
Business Operations and Governance
Planning, budgeting, portfolio management, governance, risk and reporting, aligned with strategy.
- 03
Human Capital
Engaged people with cascaded accountabilities and the capability to sustain results.
- 04
Business Relationships
Alignment among executives, partners, customers and communities, built on trust.
- 05
Business Performance, Collaboration and Innovation
Performance that is measured, reviewed often and leaves room to innovate.
Other advisory
Beyond our three core offers.
Culture, Change & Transformation
We help you understand your culture today and define a path to the culture a high-performing organization needs. We are affiliated with the Barrett Values Centre as CTT Certified Consultants, and use the Barrett Values Cultural Transformation Tools to quantify your culture and the values that matter most.
Lasting change starts at the top, so we coach the CEO, the executive team and senior managers to model new ways of working.
- Culture values assessment and executive brief
- Cultural transformation roadmap
- Workshops and employee journey mapping
- Leader, team and individual coaching
- Change enablement and adoption
- Organizational maturity assessments
- Governance frameworks and target operating models
IT Advisory
We help CIOs and senior IT leaders align IT operations with strategic objectives. That means the governance to make evidence-based decisions, and the right people and technology to reduce risk, increase compliance and deliver results.
- IT strategic planning
- IT operational assessment
- IT governance
- Artificial intelligence adoption
- Solution and vendor selection
- IT audits
Our experience
Selected engagements.
Examples of our work with public and private sector clients in Canada and around the world. Client names stay confidential.
Public sector
Government Agency
AI Policy, Strategy and Roadmap
A policy for the responsible use of AI, and a strategy and roadmap to adopt it.
Government Agency
Strategic Planning
A three-year strategic plan and the governance framework to go with it.
Government Agency
Project Audit and Recovery
Program and project audits with executive recommendations, then a governance model for strategic decisions.
Government Agency
Organizational Alignment and Change Management
Change management planning and delivery for a provincial transformation.
Healthcare Agency
Performance Management
An online Balanced Scorecard that cascades strategic objectives and accountability across stakeholder groups.
Provincial Healthcare Organization
Strategic Sourcing Strategy
Facilitated the implementation of procurement best practices through the education and establishment of an electronic provincial Vendor of Record.
Healthcare Agency
Enterprise Project Management
Provided executive education and promoted the adoption of a provincial enterprise project management framework to manage key strategic initiatives across multiple stakeholder organizations.
Private sector
Global Cloud Provider
Culture Change
A change-leadership workshop that aligned 30 executives and senior managers on one path forward.
Top 10 Large Pharma
IT Advisory and Digital Enablement
Conducted an IT Governance Assessment, developed an IT Strategy Map and oversaw the planning and digital enablement for health service providers.
Top 10 Large Pharma
CRM Strategy and Capability Roadmap
Planned and implemented a global CRM strategy and Capability Roadmap in support of a new business model and customer engagement strategy.
Top 10 Large Pharma
Global CRM Strategy, Business Process Improvement and Performance Management
Provided executive coaching to senior leaders around the globe to support and implement the shift to become a customer-centric organization through global business process improvement and technology enablement.
For details on these projects and others, please get in touch.
Our sustainability promise
A Sustainability Partner on every engagement.
- 01Every engagement is assigned a Sustainability Partner, who keeps the team focused on your most important problems and opportunities.
- 02We stay with your leadership team during and after the engagement, so new structures, governance and behaviours hold.
- 03We audit progress against your objectives through your annual, quarterly or monthly performance reviews, and train new leaders on the model.
Looking ahead
BusinessOne continues to expand its advisory services through the development of frameworks and approaches that help organizations assess readiness, govern innovation, and execute transformation initiatives effectively.
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