Slalom Consulting is a national business and technology consulting firm, founded in 2001. Slalom is a division of Slalom, LLC, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Hartford, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.

History

In 2001, Two Degrees created a business and technology consulting division that was re-branded to Slalom Consulting in 2007.

• 1994 - Two Degrees LLC founded in Denver Colorado
• 2001 - Two Degrees Consulting (Management Consulting) division created
• 2003 - Technology Solutions group created
• 2003 - Accounting and Financial Advisory Services (Sarbanes-Oxley) created
• 2004 - IT Risk and Control group created
• 2006 - (January) Consulting groups merged into one organization
• 2007 - (May 1) Two Degrees Consulting re-branded to Slalom Consulting
• 2010 - (September 5) Two Degrees, LLC changed its name to Slalom, LLC

Awards & Industry Recognition

• Consulting Magazine ranked Slalom Consulting as #6 in "The Best Firms to Work For 2011"
• Glassdoor.com ranks Slalom Consulting eighth in the U.S. for best places to work for 2011.
• Slalom Named One of Consulting Magazine’s 2010 Best Firms.
• Glassdoor.com ranks Slalom Consulting number three in the U.S. for best places to work for 2010.
• Slalom was listed among the "Top 10 Best Firms to Work For" by Consulting Magazine in 2007.
• In June 2008, Slalom's National Manager, John Tobin, was named "Pacific Northwest Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year" for excellence in professional services and consulting.
• WA CEO Magazine’s “Washington’s 100 Best Companies to Work For 2007”: Ranked #7 in the medium sized companies.
• Seattle Business Monthly’s “Best Places to Work 2007”
• Seattle Business Monthly’s “Best Places to Work 2008”
• National Association of Business Resources’ “Chicago’s 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For 2007”
• National Association of Business Resources’ “Chicago’s 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For 2008”
• National Association of Business Resources’ “Chicago’s 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For 2009”
• WSA Industry Achievement Awards “2008 Service Provider of the Year Finalist”
• San Francisco Business Times’ “2008 Top 25 Management Consulting Companies List”
• San Francisco Business Times’ “2009 Top Management Consulting Companies List”
• Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 Award in the Pacific Northwest: Professional Services & Consulting”
• Fast Company’s “2008 Reader’s Favorites”
• Oregon Business Magazine’s “2009 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon”
• Puget Sound Business Journal’s “Washington’s Best Workplaces 2009”
• Oregon Business Magazine’s “2010 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon”
• Slalom Consulting’s National Solutions General Manager, Tom Chew, is recognized as one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s “2009 40 Under 40 Honorees
• Microsoft 2010 US Country Partner of the Year
• Microsoft 2010 Business Intelligence Partner of the Year
• Microsoft 2010 Information Worker Solutions, Collaboration Partner of the Year

Services

According to its website, Slalom’s services focus on:

Technology

• Architecture and Development
  Application software
  Application software, also known as an application or an "app", is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. Examples include enterprise software, accounting software, office suites, graphics software and media players. Many application programs deal principally with...
  
  
• Technology Quality and Performance
  Performance tuning
  Performance tuning is the improvement of system performance. This is typically a computer application, but the same methods can be applied to economic markets, bureaucracies or other complex systems. The motivation for such activity is called a performance problem, which can be real or anticipated....
  
  
• Security and Privacy
  Information security
  Information security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction....
  
  
• Website Development
  Web development
  Web development is a broad term for the work involved in developing a web site for the Internet or an intranet . This can include web design, web content development, client liaison, client-side/server-side scripting, web server and network security configuration, and e-commerce development...
  
  
• Portals

Business Management

• Program and Project Management
  Program management
  Program management or programme management is the process of managing several related projects, often with the intention of improving an organization's performance...
  
  
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  Customer relationship management
  Customer relationship management is a widely implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing,...
  
  
• Business Intelligence
  Business intelligence
  Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....
  
  
• Business Process Improvement
  Business Process Improvement
  Business Process Improvement is a systematic approach to help an organization optimize its underlying processes to achieve more efficient results. The methodology was first documented in H. James Harrington’s 1991 book Business Process Improvement. It is the methodology that both Process...
  
  
• Change Management and Learning
  Learning Management
  Learning Management is the capacity to design pedagogic strategies that achieve learning outcomes for students.- Definition :A learning management system is a software application or Web-based technology that ranges from managing training and training records to distributing courses to...
  
  

Financial

• Enterprise Resource Planning
  Enterprise resource planning
  Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...
  
  
• Compliance and External Reporting
  Compliance (regulation)
  In general, compliance means conforming to a rule, such as a specification, policy, standard or law. Regulatory compliance describes the goal that corporations or public agencies aspire to in their efforts to ensure that personnel are aware of and take steps to comply with relevant laws and...
  
  
• Financial Processes and Systems
  Corporate finance
  Corporate finance is the area of finance dealing with monetary decisions that business enterprises make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to maximize shareholder value while managing the firm's financial risks...