Strategy & Management IT Consulting Descriptions
The following is a list of offerings that we classify as strategic, or managment in nature for an organization as applied to Information Infrastructure Technologies.
e-Business Strategy & Planning
To insure a complete understanding of an organization and its intended customers needs, our e-strategy consulting methodology incorporates our clients’ mission and strategic direction. This allows us to fully understand the way an organization currently conducts its business.
The goal is to design a process that improves the quality of the product or
service offered to its clients. Our fast track e-strategy development methodology
employs a 2-day executive workshop, competitive analysis, current environment
analysis, and high level planning.
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Industry & Function Best Practices
One thing we all know for sure - That your industry and your competitors are inventing new ways of doing things, applying new technologies, partnering to create synergies, lowering costs, shortening manufacturing and delivery times, etc... - right now!
Eventually you’ll know all about these efforts since many will result in, and be recognized as, standard industry practices. However, by then, most will have missed an opportunity to gain competitive advantage.
Companies that recognize that these best practices are significant to them, early, and deploy them quickly, will gain a significant competitive advantage in the marketplace. Companies that implement first are deploying best practices right now, bringing dramatic change and gaining efficiencies in various functions of the organization.
We can help you find out what best practices are currently being deployed
in your industry, at the functional level, and determine the costs, benefits,
impacts and implications to your business. We’ll also help you select the
best practices to deploy and develop an implementation plan which will achieve
results.
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I/T Planning - Business Alignment
Is your industry undergoing major shifts in how the business will operate in the future? Are new operating and financial models for sales, distribution, customer service and other functions being deployed by others, making it difficult for your company to compete?
As your organization identifies and begins planning and executing a new business vision, there’s a high probability that your underlying information technologies will not be able to provide the most effective and/or efficient support.
Infrastructure Solutions can support your organization to make quick and effective
decisions that improve business information use. By targeting the intersection
of business and technology, our proven strategies, methodologies and solutions
oriented sessions address this critical challenge facing today’s executives.
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Project management has often been referred to as the accidental profession.
In today’s competitive environment, your business can’t afford to manage by accident. Projects are the life blood of successful companies. Projects are the vehicles of change, without which stagnation occurs. Projects create the future, and as such, a more structured and conscious approach to project management is needed.
Our Project Office implementation methodology will nurture project management
capabilities by establishing project office functions which become a resource
to the entire organization, by providing approaches to projects, training
people and integrating underutilized parts of the organization effectively.
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Partnering Program Development
The competitive advantages of effective partnering has over the last decade become apparent. Managing such alliances successfully is essential to fulfilling their potential.For many of our clients, the formation and management of these business alliances is far from commonplace.
Our expertise in developing partnering programs provides practical strategies
for avoiding pit-falls, ensures that current best-practices are adopted, and
establishes a maintenance structure with methodologies for managing such attributes
as Marketing & Distribution Agreements, Confidentiality Agreements, Intellectual
Property Rights, Technology Transfer, Due Diligence, Exclusivity, Non-competition
Agreements and much more.
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Business Process Analysis & Reengineering
Our
process consulting methodology utilizes our client’s or their departments
mission and strategic direction to better understand the needs of the organization
and how it interact with its customers. We won’t initiate a project with predisposition
towards technology or applications, but instead understand that technology
recommendations should only be determined after the current processes are
understood and area within those processes have been identified, targeted,
and assessed for improvement.
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How do you identify, and act upon knowledge in your organization?
Capitalizing
on the management and dissemination of knowledge within your organization
represents a sustainable competitive advantage, but requires a change in philosophy
and culture.
We’ll work with your managers to uncover those hidden pockets of knowledge,
and architect and integrate a strategy that helps you leverage your firm’s
biggest untapped asset: Knowledge.
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Today, the way in which your business is seen on the world wide web can be its image in the marketplace. For some businesses, their website is of ‘make or break’ consequences. The design and development is of strategic importance.
We’re not going to stop after completing your e-Business Strategy & Plan.
We are able to take you to the next level and make sure your strategy is implemented
correctly, with the appropriate design features and traffic handling capabilities
to insure success.
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