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Business/IT Strategy
Service Description

We help you craft effective performance-based Balanced Scorecard IT strategies that differentiate your business execution model from that of the competition
 
Differentiation may be in the form of lower operating costs, improved business agility, streamlined operations, simplified technology landscape, shorter time to market, etc. 
 
Our goal is to ensure that your operating model and technology decisions always link to one or more strategic objectives from the outset, keeping in mind its core tenets as to...
• Purpose for which the business exists (Mission)
• What the business is aspiring to become (Vision)
• Core operating principles of the business (Values)
 
By leveraging our complete TRIAD development model, your business is set on a success path to achieve its strategic goals in record time, with the optimal resource set.
Service Summary

• Strategy Planning and Management
• Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Map
• SWOT Analysis & Risk Assessment
• Strategic Objectives, Performance Measures, and Initiatives Definition
• Strategy Communication Plan and Management
• Performance Management and Dashboard
• Business/IT Alignment Assessment and Roadmap
 
Enterprise Architecture
 
   
Service Description

We assist in assessing, developing and managing your Enterprise Architecture (EA) to ensure proper technology due deligence, implementation, integration, and alignment while executing the business strategies.
 
The EA comprises the underlying structure and function of the various business components in the enterprise. These include workers, partners, customers, technology, information, systems, etc.  In esssence, we ensure that your EA provides a 360-degree coverage of your business – i.e. the WHY, WHAT, HOW, WHEN, WHO, and WHERE of the business.
 
Our EA practice places special emphasis on 4 interconnected segments of the enterprise:
• The Business operational aspects that define capabilities and supporting processes
• The Information that flows between people and processes that run the business
• The Technical Infrastructure needed to facilitate effective technology execution
• The Application Systems that facilitate automated execution of processes.
Service Summary

• EA Planning/Development/Management
• EA Gap Analysis, Roadmap, and Governance
• EA Technology Roadmap and Technology Landscape Modeling
• Technology Evaluation and Assessment
• Solution/Aplication Architecure Development
• Business/Information Architecture Development
• EA Framework Evaluation and Selection
• Business Capability Maps & Heat Maps
Business Process Management
Service Description

Your business capabilites (the WHATs) are realtively static compared to the business processes (the HOWs)that realize them.  
In other words, your business processes undergo far more frequent changes over time.  Changes may be triggered by increasing operating costs, efficiency degradation, technology obsolescence, legal or regulatory stipulations, and so on.
 
Our strategic partnership with leading business process management (BPM) technology vendors enables us to expedite your business process automation endeavors to ensure your speed to market.
 
In automating your business processes, we assembled an appropriate BPM toolkit that has requisite capabilities that fit your development needs.  Business needs may be in the form of rapid/agile development, process modeling in a standardized notation, process simulation of what-if scenarios, business rules externalization and management, real-time process monitoring, analytics and dashboards, etc.
 Service Summary

• Process House Development
• Process Modeling/Design (BPMN)
• Process Execution (BPEL)
• Process Analysis & Re-engineering
• Process Analytics (BAM)
• Process Simulation
• Workflow and Workflow Patterns
• BPM Software Evaluation
• Process-to-Capability Mapping  
Enterprise Support Services
 
• Business Capability Assessment & Capability Mapping
• Business Pain Point Analysis & Evaluation
• Technology Obsolescence Assessment
• Software Application Fair Value Assessment
• Software/Technology Total Cost f Ownership (TCO) Evaluation
• Commercial and Open Source Software (OSS) Evaluation