7 Systems - About
Our Mission | The 7S Framework | Meet The Founder | How We Work | 7S Profit Accelerator
Our Mission
Our Mission
A hands‑on CTO/Technical CFO with 29+ years in digital transformation across Fortune 1000 and mid‑market firms—supporting brands including McDonald’s, HCSC, and global franchise groups. Nick combines executive strategy with sleeves‑rolled‑up architecture to get initiatives over the line. Expertise: Azure & AWS, Dynamics 365, M365, Power Platform, enterprise data/AI, Zero Trust/privacy, ERP modernization, FinOps, and program turnarounds.
How We Approach Business (aka How We Think)
The 7S Framework
Discover what our clients have to say about their seamless experiences with us. Our success stories are a testament to our exceptional service and commitment to client satisfaction.
STRATEGY:
Identify, appraise, and prioritize short-term tactical projects, mid-term capital investments, and long-term objectives aligned to financial metrics and business goals.
STRUCTURE: Validate and optimize the processes and tools the organization depends on to ensure both stable operations and innovative capacity.
SYSTEMS:
Value and align technology and data including ERP, AI/Automation, FinTech, and Master Data with strategic and financial objectives.
SKILLS: Assess and upskill teams, improve communication methods and tools, and embed new ways of working to support transformation.
SECURITY: Drive toward Zero Trust architecture and embed privacy and security into every layer of systems, structure, and strategy.
SPEED: Ruthlessly innovate to minimize process waste, shorten decision cycles, automate, and eliminate low-value activities to increasing profitability and cashflow.
SCALE: Build scalability into strategy at financial, technical, and operational levels to flex with demand and shifting leadership priorities.
Meet Our Founder
Nick Rich is a hands‑on CTO/Technical CFO with 29+ years of transformation enterprise experience across Fortune 1000 and mid‑market firms. Even supporting brands including McDonald’s, HCSC, and multiple global franchise groups. Nick combines executive strategy with sleeves‑rolled‑up architecture to get initiatives over the line.
To address the most complicated issues companies have,
Nick likes to Simplify Everything.
SIMPLE
Language | Vision | Roadmap | Solution | Strategy | Delivery | Measurements
» Simple Language: everyone can understand & discuss.
» Simple Vision: everyone can align with and rally behind.
» Simple Roadmap: everyone can follow
» Simple Solution: the organization can work on
» Simple Strategy: the organization can live out
» Simple Delivery: the organization can accomplish
» Simple Measurement: the organization can be guided by
- Cloud Based Technology
- CI/CD, Identify / Zero Trust, Cyber Security, Content Delivery Network, Data Privacy
- Enterprise Technology
- ERP: Dynamics, SAP S/4Hana, Oracle EBS
- HRIS: PeopleSoft, OracleHCM, Kronos / UltiPro,
- CRM & Marketing: SalesForce CRM, SalesForce Marketing, Adobe Marketing Cloud (AEM, AAM, AC, and Campaign)
- DATA: MS SQL (V6.0 - 2019), Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, Azure Data Bricks, AWS Redshift, Snowflake, and more)
- DEVOPS: CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub, Visual Studio Collab, Azure Devops, AWS Pipeline, Puppet, Chef
- DEV LANGUAGES: T-SQL, PL/Sql, C#, VB, PowerShell, Batch, HTML, Java-Script, CSS, XML, and many others.
How We Work
Clarity First: Our 60-Day Value Map to align goals, de-risk investment, and ensure every step is intentional.
Profit Focused: All activity is monetized and prioritized to maximize client profit and cashflow.
Transparent Communication: Every conversation, document, and chat is accessible to our clients at all times. Ensuring they always know what we know. This level of transparency builds trust, accelerates decision-making, and eliminates surprises throughout the engagement.
Simplified Delivery: Leveraging our 5‑D Delivery Model gives clients full transparency; like seeing the meal while it’s being cooked. This visibility empowers leaders to make informed adjustments mid-flight with minimal impact on investment, ensuring agility without sacrificing control, outcomes, or budgets.
FIVE DIMENSION DELIVERY MODEL
Discover → Design → Decide → Deliver → Drive
AI Merged Into Framework
Our Framework integrated with AI Predictable Models will help you identify how change (does and will) decrease costs, increase revenue and drive profits in real-time and as change occurs. Giving you the decision vectors and insights to help the scale profit margins not just increase the bottom-line dollars.
Data-Driven Delivery
Growing a business is a journey full of twists, turns, delays, and unexpected detours that executives must navigate. Capital investments, often the biggest bets along the way, don’t have to be rigid or risky. With a dynamic, AI-fueled delivery model, such investments can be optimized and adjusted in real time, giving leaders full visibility and control.
