Not all questions are created equal. To produce new, transformative insights you must create room for a line of questioning that can radically alter your understanding. Learning how to ask the right question at the right time is essential. At CE-Solutions, this technique is at the core of our process. It’s how we produce breakthrough solutions to complex problems. By working closely with our clients to truly understand their needs we provide the best service possible.

Discover for yourself an efficient path to fresh perspectives and creativity through the ‘Question Burst’ technique, outlined in this HBR article: Better Brainstorming on HBR

Here at CE-Solutions we live our core beliefs in everything we do – both personally and professionally. They are the ingredients for our ‘Secret Sauce.’ As a company committed to inspiring, encouraging, and empowering every life we touch, we want to share this recipe for success with you! Over the course of the next 6 weeks we will focus on a core value each week, sharing resources on what they are, why they’re important, and how it can benefit you in your career and your life. You may resonate more with some than others. That’s your unique flavor or expression. It doesn’t matter how you combine them, if you have these 6 ingredients you can’t go wrong!

We are inspired by the idea of ‘Freedom of Responsibility.’ This is the lens through which we understand our core values. With responsibility, our employees are empowered to take initiative and to do the right thing by our colleagues, customers, and consultants. As motivational speaker and celebrity Will Smith explains in his speech, “The road to power is in taking responsibility. Your heart, your life, your happiness, is your responsibility and your responsibility alone.”

Who you are is not determined by what happens to you but by how you respond to what happens to you. That is freedom – the opportunity to define yourself and become whoever you choose. When you take responsibility you take your life, your success, and your happiness into your own hands. As Patty McCord, the founding force behind Netflix’s high-performance culture, says “We develop people by giving them the opportunity to develop themselves, by surrounding them with big challenges to work on.”

This is the single most important thing you can do for yourself both in and out of the office.

We feel it is our responsibility to share with the community what we’ve learned over the past 14 years in business. Let’s make this a conversation! Join us on social media, whether you use Facebook, Linked in, Twitter, or Instagram – Let us know what you think, how these values relates to your experience, and how it goes if you implement the knowledge and resources we share into your life.

If we can make an impact on even one person, then we’ve done our job well.

Today the following article celebrating Bob Bobst joining the Allére group was published in the Reading Eagle’s Business Weekly Newsmakers!

CE-Solutions, a leading women-owned staffing and solutions provider for mid-market, global, and Fortune 500 companies, has appointed Bob Bobst as their Director of Governance Risk and Compliance. Bobst will be responsible for driving the customizable GRC service offerings of Allére, their XaaS (Everything-As-A-Service) delivery method.

A lifetime resident of Berks County, Bobst comes to CE-Solutions with more than 25 years’ experience in governance, risk, and compliance, primarily in financial services. Bobst maintains designations as a Certified Internal Auditor, Certification of Risk Management Assurance, and Certified Fraud Examiner, among others.

CE-Solutions has offices in Kennett Square, PA and Greenville, DE. Leveraging 14 years of experience, their team of cross-industry executives developed the Allére XaaS (Everything-as-a-Service) delivery model. Allére is designed to ensure clients’ success by efficiently deliver business outcomes through a customizable service catalog.

Welcome to the future of the economy.

As IBM predicted in a 2014 article, “we can be said to be heading into the “X” as a service or “XaaS” era.” XaaS is anything-as-a-service, a revolutionary concept that is rapidly changing the orientation of the global market and restructuring relationships between customers and providers across nearly every sector. The foundational shift from commitment-based, out-right purchasing to on-demand services first began to make a significant impact in the past few years with cloud-based offerings like software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and infrastructure-as-a-service.

Since then we’ve seen expansion into nearly every sector and the potential applications are endless. Enterprises the world over have recognized this opportunity and begun to restructure their business models to take advantage of the XaaS trend. Even the chief technology officer of General Electric, a corporation that represents, for many, the classical product sales of years past, indicated that the bulk of revenue now comes from selling as a subscription service what used to be products such as their “cloud-based energy-as-a-service [offering] that helps customers monitor and optimize their energy consumption using sensors embedded in LED bulbs.”

Why are we seeing an explosion in new technologies and companies based on this model? The answer is simple. It’s a consumer-centric structure that capitalizes on fluid, continuous relationships between customers and providers. The service personalization capability of XaaS businesses is a refreshing alternative to the archaic, commoditized, transactions of the past. Although this model is applicable to a wide range of offerings, the general benefits include (but are not limited to):

• Scalability – Services can scale up or down as needed.
• Affordability – Products or services are maintained by your provider so you are unburdened by the responsibility of operations and maintenance.
• Flexibility – You only pay for what you need, when you need it.
• Efficiency – Valuable service interactions between customers and partners lead to long lasting relationships.

XaaS proposes a co-creative process where consumers can participate in the customization of their business outcomes. Here at CE-Solutions, a leading women-owned staffing and solutions firm serving the greater Philadelphia area, personalization and genuine human connections are at the core of our business. Our commitment to truly understanding your needs drives our relentless pursuit to find the best solutions. We are more than a service provider, we aspire to be your long-term strategic partner. Our continued dedication to integrity, ingenuity, and industry leadership has led to the newest evolution of CE-Solutions – Allére, the Everything-as-a-Service model developed to support your ever-changing and cyclical business needs.

Aptly named, Allére comes from the Latin term, ‘to grow and to care for.’ CE-Solutions developed Allére on its foundational experience partnering with clients across business functions. Allére enables CE-Solutions’ clients to strategically align resources and distribute work product at a granular level providing the elasticity necessary to deliver against today’s dynamic business needs.

What can Allére do for your business? Viewing business models, processes, and strategies through an XaaS lens may illuminate entirely new opportunities to increase revenue and drive efficiency.

Leverage Allére’s core modernization techniques to extract more value from internal operations.

• Reduce risk through regulatory alignment to reduce reputation exposure.
• Protect brand by quickly and easily addressing spikes/decline in business requirements.
• Reduce cost by reducing infrastructure, human resources, and training.
• Increase profit by shifting between capital expenditure and operating expenses.

See how this new service offering can revolutionize your business at 
www.ce-solutions.com || www.allere.com

In 2017 our very own Director of Business Development, Jeffrey Burkhart, had the opportunity to represent us at one of the renowned Disrupt HR events.  If you haven’t heard of them yet, DisruptHR does for HR what CE-Solutions does for staffing – they are a dedicated team of individuals working to energize, inform, and empower people to be successful in their field.

We chose to present on a topic that we know a lot about –  personal connection and how to bring it back into business. In the modern world where everything is commodified and automated the need for genuine relationships and human to human interaction has never been more important.

Check out Jeff’s performance and join the conversation – how do YOU maintain that personal connection in your business?

Let us know on LinkedIn @CE-Solutions!

The Human Side Of HR | Jeffrey Burkhardt | DisruptHR Talks from DisruptHR on Vimeo.

What makes a team strong is respecting, trusting and caring for each other. Happy #FamilyDay to a team that embodies their core values of Passion, Results, People, Integrity and Excellence. #CESOLUTIONS