Explore Our Management Consulting Services
IT Strategy and Portfolio Management
Does your IT portfolio align with your organizational strategy? Are you looking for a better way to prioritize and track IT investments as part of a digital transformation initiative? Our IT strategy and portfolio management service addresses these challenges with a three-phased approach. During the discovery phase we catalog current IT applications and identify pain points and challenges. During the future state planning phase, we help develop IT strategy and perform a rationalization effort to determine whether applications need to be enhanced, modernized, or retired. During future state implementation, we help prioritize, plan, and track the projects needed to get from the current to the future state.
Software Development Productivity Center of Excellence
Are you interested in improving software development productivity, quality, and agility on a sustained basis? Our CEO Joe Madden is a published thought leader with over 30 years of experience in software productivity and quality. For all types of software, our Software Development Productivity Center of Excellence is a turnkey solution that provides an embedded team with specialized expertise in (1) quantitative software benchmarking, estimation, and forecasting, (2) software life cycle management and (3) establishing and maintaining certifications in engineering and management best practice frameworks such as the CMMI, ISO 9001, ISO 20000-1, and ISO 27001.
Data-Driven Decision Support
Tired of making important business decisions based on “gut feel” due to lack of data and insight? We have helped many clients make more defensible, data-driven decisions, including on high visibility programs where millions of dollars, reputational risk and/or human lives were on the line. Our consultants help you (1) establish measurable criteria for decision making, (2) identify relevant sources of data to support a given decision, (3) perform statistical analysis to find the “story” in the data and (4) employ data visualization and presentation skills to clearly communicate the recommended decision to stakeholders.
Strategic Business Planning
Are you ready to take your organization to the next level? We bring significant business leadership experience from both large and small consulting firms. In support of strategic business planning, we offer tailored services to help improve growth, profitability, employee retention and customer satisfaction. Some examples include:
- Strategic Assessment of Current vs. Desired Future State
- Target Business Model for Sustained Growth & Profitability
- Leverage Model for Optimized Staffing
- Opportunity Tracking & Capture Management
- Quality Management System
- Contract Negotiation Strategies
- Employee Career Path and Performance Based Incentive Compensation
Organizational & Leadership Development
Is your organization going through a strategic transformation? Empowering organizations to embrace transformational change is a key element of everything we do. Combining information with insight and experience, we collaborate WITH you in assessing your organizational needs and designing tangible solutions for process and performance improvement. Our passion lies in building community within an organization – primarily through developing emerging leaders and building strong teams that focus on quality and efficiency. Some examples of our services include:
- Organizational Design & Development
- Leadership Development
- Process Improvement
- Performance Planning & Management
- Change Management
- Communication Planning
- Team Building/Community & Culture Growth
- Assessment/360 Feedback Tools