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Technology & Management Consulting Group

Brief Introduction

The Technology & Management Consulting (TMC) group provides management and business process engineering services. Our business process engineering consultants can assist our clients through all stages of business optimization from vision through strategy development and needs assessment to process analysis, process re-engineering, change management, and requirements definition for IT solutions.

At the technology level our IT management consultants can conduct and manage software selection, solution design, implementation, and rollout of business improvement measures. The types of services we provide include:
  • IT Strategy and Business Planning
  • Application Portfolio and Architecture Reviews
  • Business Process Optimization
  • Interim Operational Leadership
  • Traditional Project Management Services
  • Introduction and Validation of Project Methodology
  • Quality Assurance
  • Risk Management
  • Resource Management
  • Contractor and Vendor Management

Besides having a broad technical skill set, all of our management consultants hold MBA degrees (or their foreign equivalent) and are trained in project management. In addition, they are experienced with multiple flavors of software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies.


Detailed Service Descriptions

Vision & Strategy Development Services

At a high level, strategy is typically the starting point for developing a business. But without a clear vision of where you want to go it is hard to develop a strategy. We help our clients build their vision, and based on that vision we guide them through the development of their strategic business objectives. That process encompasses identifying the right focus and lining up the necessary support and resources.
At a lower level, strategy should be considered with every major business decision. We help ensure those decisions regarding business processes and technology solutions are aligned with overall business strategy, and we assist in creating smaller scale strategies for specific endeavors, e.g. e-Business, enterprise system, or collaboration system deployments.

Business Case & Business Plan Development

You are thinking of starting a new business or a venture, or expanding into new areas. How are you going to go about it? What are the pros and cons, the risks, and the unknowns? How big is the market, and who are your potential competitors going to be? How much funding is required, and is it worth the investment? If you are asking yourself these questions, you need a business case that will lead to a solid business plan. Our management consultants will assist you through the process of developing these important documents and help you reach the necessary comfort level to make important decisions.

ROI Analysis

In today’s business climate nothing is more important than showing return on investment (ROI) to obtain authorization and funding for any new project, especially in IT. We have extensive experience in analyzing costs and benefits of existing and planned solutions and developing the collateral which you need to make the desired impact and reach your ultimate goals.

Process Analysis, Re-Engineering, Change Management

All organizations have processes in place for handling the daily flow of business, defining the way decisions are made, and defining the way your organization interacts within and with 3rd parties.
But organizations undergo constant change. So does the business environment. People change, and technology changes at a pace beyond our comfort zone. As a result it is inevitable for processes to change along these evolving factors.

Precision e-Consulting management consultants can assist you with that change, be it driven by business factors, or driven by technology. They have extensive experience in analyzing and engineering processes, as well as managing organizational and behavioral change throughout organizations of all sizes. We offer these services with any project where technology or organizational changes have an impact on your employees and how you conduct business.

Requirements Definition / Documentation of Functional Specifications

No IT project is going to be successful unless specific business objectives and functional requirements have been defined up-front, before a solution is selected or designed. More importantly, throughout the project life cycle these requirements must constantly be validated and mapped to the evolving solution. Combined, our consultants have decades of experience, and we use industry standard methodologies in analyzing and documenting requirements and specifications. We conduct no engagement without this critical element of traditional methodology, unless requirements were already documented and we have an opportunity to validate them.

Software Evaluation & Selection, Vendor Management

Whether you need to procure an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, customer relationship management (CRM) solution, database system, e-Business platform, middleware architecture, or any other software or hardware solution, the evaluation and selection process is typically a stressful experience. Having to analyze the functional specifications and complex technical architectures of a solution you are not yet familiar with; having to deal with commission driven sales people in an industry not exactly known for its transparency; all this can be trying if you have a business to run and a limited time frame for the evaluation process.

This is where Precision-e Consulting partners with you. We can manage and conduct your RFP and evaluation process and lead you through the final selection. We can lead contract negotiations on your behalf and manage all interaction with vendors and service providers up until the point where you make a quality decision based on our research and analysis. Following the selection, we can supervise 3rd party implementation teams and monitor their service level agreements.

Program & Project Management

Your organization may have all the experts on hand to implement a new business solution, but do you have managers of the right caliber to run a highly visible long-term project? Do they have enough bandwidth to dedicate to the project? Do they have other competing responsibilities cutting into their commitment?

If these and other questions are keeping you up at night, consider contacting Precision e-Consulting.
Our project managers have years of experience managing multi-million Dollar projects for Fortune 2000 companies here and abroad, leading process engineering and IT projects. They are intimately familiar with the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) as well as various other similar, derivative, and proprietary methodologies.

Project Planning & Methodology Coaching

You might not have the budget to hire external full-time project management resources, or you may have them in-house but need to bring them to the next level of proficiency. Or you simply need a neutral party to validate compliance with project management standards.

Precision e-Consulting has a pool of experienced project managers who can provide guidance to your project team. Be it just in the early stages, assisting your project managers with project initiation and planning, setting up the project charter, or defining standards and procedures. Alternatively, our management consultants can be their advisors or coaches throughout the project cycle, by means of frequent project review meetings, and by providing training on tools and techniques.

QA, Risk Management & Project Controlling

Good project management includes a Quality Assurance track. An independent authority not directly involved with the day-to-day management should, on a regular basis, assess project progress, review the team's performance, and audit its compliance with project management standards. Risk Management is another important part of the project management landscape. Potential risks and their impacts on the project need to be identified and mitigated, and alternative plans need to be ready for implementation if disaster strikes. Last, but not least, project budgets can easily get out of hand if their financial status is not rigorously tracked and reported to its sponsors on a regular basis.

We can help with all of these challenges. Our project managers are intimately familiar with the best practices on accountability and risk management. They can help you implement the necessary QA, risk management, and project controlling procedures, or step in and take on any of these specific roles.

Application Architecture Reviews

Are you worried that your ERP, e-business, or middleware applications are not up to snuff in terms of scalability, functional expandability, or stability? Our team of management consultants and application experts, senior software engineers and platform architects can validate business processes, functional requirements, and technical specifications, and perform functionality assessments, architecture reviews, integration assessments, and code reviews to give you the comfort level you need regarding your application infrastructure.

Building Operation & Support Organizations, Standards & Procedures

Your company is rolling out a new IT solution. As it successfully goes into production, consultants and vendor personnel start leaving the site. Does your IT personnel have the bandwidth, the skills, the tools and experience to keep that solution running, to troubleshoot end users' problems, and to manage growth issues as database size and the number of customizations increase? Will they be capable of integrating the additional end user base and the organizational peculiarities of that company you are about to acquire?
Building administration and support for your solutions requires specific budgets, timelines, and resource commitments, as well as the right combination of training and documentation.

At Precision e-Consulting we understand these challenges. We can help you with all aspects of organizational design, recruiting, and training of the respective resources. Our application experts will work with you in designing a set of operational standards and procedures, which can address the majority of the issues they may encounter during the production life cycle of your new solution.
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