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Strategic & Systems Planning
Success depends on a strong foundation of business practices and supporting systems. We believe in understanding the whole business environment before making any detailed recommendations. Proper planning of the direction of future automation is the key to choosing the right systems for your business.This service area specializes in the up-front planning for future systems, manual or automated.
The following list describes the various concentrated work efforts that contribute to the planning process. Any or all of these competencies can be chosen for a given project.
Specific Work Efforts
- Feasibility Studies - This effort takes a look at a business area and describes the feasibility that given current or future systems will meet the needs of the client.
- Systems and Portfolio Assessment - This effort examines the current business systems to determine the state of the current systems and analyzes how well these systems are meeting the needs of the business. Recommendations are made on which systems should be replaced or merged.
- Data Planning - This effort looks at all the data from the existing systems and compares it with the enterprise information needs. An architecture is built to reflect the future direction for business information.
- Business Strategic Planning - If there are needs to look at the goals and objectives of the organization before deciding on systems, this work effort includes the future direction of the business.
- Process Improvement - If there is a requirement for improving business processes either before determining systems or as a result of installing new systems, then this work effort is recommended.
- Training - Sometimes customized training is necessary for a specific organizational or analytical skill. Such training includes project management, methodology, or facilitation.
- Facilitation - This work effort is chosen for rapid information gathering of requirements and needs of the organization. Facilitation is the impartial gathering of these needs in a group setting.
- Methodology Implementation - When there is a need for establishing a methodology in analysis and implementation of systems or process improvement, then this work effort is chosen. This work effort may include the choosing of the right methodology for your organization.
- Requests for Proposals - This work may include creation and evaluation of RFP's.
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