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BUSINESS REENGINEERING

In the best of times, companies are challenged with establishing effective communications between their key business stakeholders and the IT organizations built to support them. It's critical that IT managers implement systems that help achieve your most basic business goals such as increasing revenue, reducing expense, or expanding your market share and global reach.

SSG helps organizations achieve greater value from their IT investments.  We work with reputable product and service providers to minimize risk on technology related projects.  Our domain experts leverage our extensive experience working “in the field” for a diverse body of clientele.

Our Offerings:
  • Requirements Definition – leading to reduced project risk, better business work-flow, faster time to market and more predictable project budgets.
  • Work-flow Analysis - improved operational efficiency through the synchronization / optimization of both business and IT system work-flow.
  • Package Evaluation – objective decision-making regarding software implementations, such as buy versus build, as well as package analysis and selection.
  • Integration Planning – detailed impact analysis based on business requirements, as well planning for new system implementations and the necessary integration.

The Benefits:
  • Defining business requirements with appropriate detail to satisfy the needs of both the business and IT staff.
  • Sharing best practices by applying our domain expertise and lessons learned from our client engagements.
  • Maximizing the return from your technology vendors and internal IT department by leveraging our in-depth industry knowledge.
  • Increasing customer / user satisfaction for new systems, by improving usability and the User Acceptance Test process.
  • Collaborating with your business stakeholders, IT department and external vendors to make future technology initiatives productive and as-planned.

Our Methodology:
  • Define -- Develop balanced business objectives that guide critical project decisions, using horizon-based objective setting to validate business goals and the inherent limits imposed by time, technology, and budget.
  • Assess -- Evaluate project requirements that builds on strengths while minimizing risks. We evaluate core business processes, market position and budgetary controls to create overall program/project governance to help ensure success.
  • Architect -- Merging business and IT expertise to design a detailed, systematic approach and project road-map to guide your transformation from current to future state while staying within cost and time-to-market boundaries.
  • Execute -- We can execute and manage your program/project, or we can provide oversight and guidance to your team.
  • Evaluate -- Post-delivery review (success points, lessons-learned, etc.) is guided by our original Define process and forms the basis for any next Define phase & increases effectiveness of future programs and projects.
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Please take the time to review these services in more detail or contact us to speak with our team.  Find out more about how we can assist you with your specific needs and to schedule a presentation.