overview
Our mission is to help organizations
further their
strategic objectives through innovative use of information
technologies.
We work with you to discover implementable changes that
your organization can make to achieve and sustain breakthrough performance
improvements. This requires understanding the business, organizational
and technological issues your organization
faces. |
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We offer three types of services spanning
the
stages from initial investigation through post implementation
evaluation:
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Remarkably often, organizations embark upon web and other technology
initiatives without answering (or even asking) the basic management
questions
of:
- What new business opportunities have been created by the web
and other new information technologies that make sense for us
to pursue?
- What activities that we're now doing could be improved through
web-based and other technology-intensive applications?
- How will these web applications contribute to our business?
How much will it cost?
- How will we know we've succeeded?
- Why is this worth doing?
- Who will develop the applications? Who will maintain and
update them?
- What changes do we need to make to current capabilities,
organization, activities and processes to make
web applications pay off?
We start by exploring with clients the kinds of outcomes
they want to achieve through web development. There are
two parts to this:
- Identifying key business objectives,
the
whats to be accomplished, mapped to specific strategic
activities of the
organization; and
- Consideration of technical alternatives
suited to accomplishing these objectives, that
weighs the costs, risks and
benefits of particular technology hows against
the business impact.
We recognize that application development is a learning system.
Though initially guided by the current strategy, web development
lessons
can later
guide revision of strategic assumptions about web applications
and about new strategic opportunities not apparent at the outset.
Our methodology is designed to promote and leverage such learning.
| Opportunity Targeting helps
you take stock of your current strategic activities, select
candidates for web applications,
and develop a Road Map outlining the desired outcomes and how
to get there- both first steps that you can act on quickly
and longer term efforts such as capability and infrastructure
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Our Web Planning services
help you get started by building a foundation capable of
supporting successful web applications for your targeted
opportunities. These services are designed primarily to support
pilot projects that you
can use to evaluate the merits, challenges and risks of such
development.
Like riding
bicycles and swimming, the most important things about
web development are learned by doing
rather
than reading or talking about it. A key result of pilots
is that kind of learning- evident by sharpened understanding
about
what you can accomplish and about the effort, costs
and benefits involved. |
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Our Strategic Management
Consulting services
assist you to take a deeper look at your direction, strengths,
and areas for improvement- and to effectively address the longer
term changes needed
to position your organization for responding
effectively to emerging business challenges and opportunities.
These services are especially valuable to organizations
engaged in fundamental rethinking of the business as a result
of changing
management, undertaking new business ventures, or facing
large shifts in their markets or competitive environment. |
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