Systems Implementation
An independent software implementation taskforce offers you a safety-net and mitigates risk.
Systems Implementation Management
You have your process model designed and you have already selected your integration system, but it is waiting to be implemented. It has been a big effort to reach this point and it is time to decide who is going to help you to move forward to a successful result when you go live with your new system.
The system selection process is critical to the success of the integration initiative, but even the most perfectly aligned software will not make a bit of difference if it’s not implemented effectively.
The implementation of your new system requires skilled project managers. Yes, your vendor has project managers, but their focus is project management of their own resources rather than that of yours. It is also possible that there are conflicting views of scope between the vendor and you. As project manager for your implementation, we ensure conflicts are resolved expeditiously and fairly.
Our focus is strictly on project management. The system or software functionality knowledge comes with your system provider, but we work hard to assure that that knowledge is acquired by your internal resources. We add value in project management and also in business process re-engineering, change management, risk management, and we make training a priority, for this is where value-adding changes become reality.
Because we are not centered in any particular software and have no bonds to any software company, we are focused on mitigating risk and optimizing your business benefits.
Our Approach
Balanced business knowledge and general IT expertise
If we move with you to system implementation, we not only will understand the structure of the systems to be implemented but we also understand your company, your business process improvements, and how to drive those business improvements from the selected software.
Robust organizational Change Management knowledge and tools
System implementation fails without a proper focus on organizational change management. Even the best business process or software design doesn’t matter if the staff doesn’t fully understand the new ways of doing business.
Software training is a small, but vital, component of a robust organizational change methodology. For an effective deployment, we address stakeholder communications, organizational impact, value-adding criteria, organizational design, and a multitude of other organizational tools required to make any implementation successful.
Independence from your software vendor
An independent implementation team from the software developer is just as important during the selection of the system as in the implementation.
Because we are not centered in any particular software and have no bonds to any software company, we can be more effective during implementation providing you a good insurance policy to executives concerned with mitigating risk and optimizing business benefits.