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Program Design
Investigative Business Analysis
Performance Assurance

Translating Business Strategy into Project Success

It's not always clear what is necessary to take your business strategy and design a path that leads to operating realities.  We're experts in Listening to understand where you want to go, and trailblazers that can develop programs and execute projects that reach those goals.

When the scope of change is significant, identifying projects and organizing what to do and when is daunting.  To design the program, we start with your Vision and Goals.  Then we layer on the Intiatives that are in-process and upcoming.  We look for dependencies, opportunities, and risks.  By taking these qualitative and quantitative aspects, a program is born.

Our approach to gathering business information takes three primary forms:  interviews, ADITLOX (A Day In The Life Of X), and parametric analysis.  In this manner we form an understanding of what are the new requirements, what is the current state, and what are the symmetric data points that add comparative context.

Performance metrics are managed on multiple fronts:  program net value, project budgets,  time-to-value, security risk reduction, impact to operations, and customer satisfaction indexes.  Meaningful metrics start with a baseline, so our up-front activity is to work with our clients to establish and validate baselines.

Project Planning

Project Planning is a series of activities that occur throughout the life of a project (not just the beginning).  The fact is that "things change" and constant re-evaluation and adjustment to the plan avoids negative investment or incomplete deliverables.  We focus on a decompostion of the project into Work Packages as tangible deliverables to measure value.

Project Control

We know that this is more than just status reports and schedule tracking.  With a combination of soft skills for managing team relations and analytical techniques, we steer projects on a course for success. 

Solution Selection

By turning solution requirements into a scorecard, we apply an RFP-driven process to guide our customers through the steps of solution selection.

Vendor Negotiation

Most of the projects that we deliver have requirements for subscriptions, services, or software/hardware procurement.  Negotiating favorable terms is another way that we can help ensure that net value is maximized by minimizing the total cost of change.

Change Management

Whether through personal meetings, company broadcasts, classroom sessions, wallboards, reminder tokens, or other campaign methods, we believe that change communication is a key component.  Combined with effective scheduling, risk management, and practice-laden preparation, Change can be both non-disruptive and rewarding.

Handoff to Operations

Our projects are not complete until all of our work packages have been transitioned to operational ownership.  Beyond signoffs, this may include training sessions, manuals/guides, introductions to providers, and other measures to ensure knowledge is not just made available but formally shared.

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