Simpel & Associates
A New Paradigm in Business Transformation

Organizational transformation projects like mergers, acquisitions, large technology deployments, carve-outs, and integrations are often complex processes that bring significant changes to the way a company operates.

Designing, developing, and implementing successful change programs that align well with an organization’s roadmap require a deep understanding of their current situation and strategic goals. This process typically involves multiple stakeholders, including leaders, employees, customers, and shareholders. A clear and compelling vision, effective communication strategies, and strong leadership are integral to bringing all stakeholders on the same page and achieving successful outcomes.

That’s where Simpel & Associates can help.

A boutique consultancy specializing in the most complex change programs, Simpel & Associates has a track record of offering subject matter expertise and support to numerous private equity firms, portfolio companies, and Fortune 500’s since 2016. It specializes in developing and delivering on-demand and scalable solutions for the foundational work needed to manage change with its patented system, Kinetic Transformation, and a patented Real-Time-Data-Capture technology, Kinetic Transformation Accelerator (KTA).

As Nathan Gampel, CEO and founder of Simpel & Associates, puts it, “KTA is the first Transformation Management System. It combines patented Real-Time-Data-Capture and Rakeyah technology to provide leaders with the first tool for understanding and executing complex work.”

The Real-Time-Data-Capture Technology

At the core of the KTA technology is the Kinetic Algorithm, a universal work algorithm that understands even the most complicated programs as a series of simple, interconnected actions that are integral to managing a project according to the industry best practice. Simpel & Associates’ four years of research have demonstrated that deviations from this optimal path are strong indicators of unfavorable outcomes for transformation programs. Considering that these projects fail in excess of 70 percent of the time, KTA is a game changer, as it gives Simpel & Associates the ability to understand and offer the tools to influence at scale.

Simpel & Associates uses KTA to build what Gampel calls a Rakeyah or Meta project management layer for integrating and understanding even seemingly unrelated work within a project. Utilizing technologies like integrated workflows, automated data capture, and reporting to other work automation platforms, such as ERPs or HRIS, project leaders can better influence the structural elements of even the largest projects in a predictable and agile fashion. KTA allows project and change management professionals to understand and influence each project like never before, even across the longest durations or broadest geographies.

The First Universal Sandbox for Work

KTA provides a standardized approach to change management, regardless of the technology or method used. By capturing all works within a single technology, it implements change solutions accurately across organizations while minimizing knowledge loss and maintaining high levels of quality. KTA also features Kinetic Transformation Measures (KTMs), which enable Simpel & Associates to gain a holistic, real-time understanding of the change. In other words, it acts as an air traffic control center for people, data, and systems interacting across long-duration change projects or organizations that support them.

It is exciting to be a part of bringing a new paradigm in how work gets done to market

Through KTA, Simpel & Associates brings efficiency and scales fast. It helps quickly gather information, understand the organization, and create actionable and aligned plans according to client needs. It can do this often, for a fraction of the cost, with much better outcomes. KTA also employs a new form of work technology called nuclei, which are kernel processes designed to be simple and aligned to the Kinetic Algorithm. Combined with the integrated accelerators for all processes— stakeholder and project analyses, resource management, and project planning— KTA combines people, process, and technology. It also uses a minimally invasive workflow that helps teams naturally advance to the next step of work.

KTAs non-invasive technology naturally integrates with any way of working or work automation technologies. It does this by leveraging a sliding scale implementation approach from consulting (non-integrated) to white label or a fully integrated, custom solution that clients can resell or enhance.

As KTA creates the first integrated, self-contained system for capturing change, Simpel & Associates can generate analytics that seamlessly link people, process, and technology. For example, it can generate integrated and rich analytics that act as a speedometer for change projects and organizations.

Helping Create the Correct Structured Environment

Simpel & Associates’ vision is to serve as clients’ go-to option for conquering the failing transformation process. It believes that KTA is a new paradigm in how the largest and most complex projects are operationalized. In support of this new paradigm, Simpel & Associates has launched Transformation Insights, a SaaS company that specializes in offering KTA. It is a corporation that provides SaaS solutions for companies engaged in complex change projects like mergers, carve-outs, and technology deployments.

“Transformation Insights will soon offer a new franchise product aimed at providing greater stability and value from the gig economy consulting market. A fast-growing, increasingly preferred method for technical work specialists who may be looking for a work alternative outside of the traditional world,” says Professor Jonathan S. Weissman, who has joined Transformation Insights’ advisory board as a shareholder.

Jonathan Weissman, Board Member, Transformation Insights, Inc.

The Veterans in Leading Successful Transformations

Simpel & Associates will continue living by the creed from which it began consulting—partnership and service. It aims to be the copilot on clients’ change adventures, and with technologies like KTA helping them do more with greater transparency and success at change.

“It is exciting to be part of a new paradigm for work. Companies need to be in front of this change and we are glad to see KTA leading the discussion,” says Rebecca Gampel, the global head of strategic partnerships of Simpel & Associates. As practitioner-scholars, Simpel & Associates has more than 20 years of combined experience in leading successful transformations and an understanding of research to provide tailored data-driven solutions. The simplicity enables a person with no experience in digital transformation to lead programs like a professional.

"KTA is the first transformation management system. It combines patented real-time- data-capture and rakeyah technology to provide leaders with the first tool for understanding and executing complex work"

“The new paradigm in transformation is propelling a novel way of looking at the large programs, which drive change in companies,” says Kelechi Basil, consultant and head of product at Simpel & Associates. “Simpel & Associates helps companies do a lot more than gain efficiency. Helping change agents deliver an outsized return on their investment in change is what we are really all about. We call it Transformation Arbitrage and it is at the core of how we help clients better the odds for success every day,”