ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS

Operational priorities are set to distinguish and realize organizational goals. Defining the strategy for achieving these goals is an essential part of business for each organization. Setting high level direction through the visioning processes helps create a compelling picture of desirable future results. In many cases, however, the focus on up-front strategic goal setting, action planning and solution mapping needed to guide an enterprise solution effort to success do not receive the attention needed. The solution implementation or upgrade effort instead becomes a self-sustaining march to deploy capabilities that may or may not align with an organization’s strategic objectives and intended direction. The end result is often a failed solution implementation or one that provides very little strategic and economic value, if any.

Collaborative Solutions is committed to providing our clients with a holistic offering of high caliber professional services that can help deliver maximum value from today’s leading-edge enterprise solutions. We understand how to leverage the value of technology, processes, and people to help our clients address their most pressing needs today and to prepare them for the challenges yet to come. More importantly, we understand the key to success with enterprise solutions is having a comprehensive and well-supported enterprise solution strategy and roadmap in place.

To this end, Collaborative Solutions’ Strategy & Vision Service Offerings provide the up-front planning and staging activities required to provide a clear direction, trusted guidance and stakeholder support essential to successfully implementing an enterprise solution. We work closely with our clients to identify the primary business and organizational drivers for change as well as the critical success factors and performance measures when implementing or upgrading an enterprise solution. We help build the business case justification for an enterprise solution initiative, including the development of detailed project workplans, implementation estimates, return on investment (ROI) projections and project/program charters. We help establish a roadmap for deploying technology solutions so the most critical needs are addressed early on and the maximum value can be realized from the investment. When the technology choices are not clear cut, Collaborative Solutions helps manage the vendor assessment and selection process to ensure that the solution platform represents the most appropriate fit and best overall value for the client.

Collaborative Solutions Strategy & Visioning Service Offerings include:

Enterprise Solution Planning

We work with you to help define your strategic goals for the implementation or upgrade of your enterprise solution. We help identify and quantify the key business challenges, related critical success factors and key performance indicators that will be used to measure the ongoing success of the initiative. We also help build the implementation plan, business case justification, and the project charter as a point for go-forward.

Solution Roadmapping

We work with you to help define the components of an enterprise solution that should be selected, implemented and/or upgraded to provide the greatest benefit and lowest risk to your organization. As part of this process, we ensure the solution roadmap is aligned with your key business objectives and overall strategic plan.

On-Premise vs. On-Demand Guidance

We work with you to identify the high-level and critical requirements that should guide your enterprise solution assessment. We define the high level business processes that must be addressed in a new or upgraded solution and establish the framework for evaluating vendor solutions across multiple areas, such as functionality, technology platform and total cost of ownership. We also develop scenario-based scripting as well as assessment criteria and selection guidance for evaluating vendor solutions. Upon completion, we assemble the findings and a go-forward solution strategy for the organization.

Post-Mortem Analysis

We work with your project team and key stakeholders to evaluate the impact of an enterprise solution initiative after it is complete. Our effort includes identifying the implementation processes followed as well as the goals, metrics and resourcing used. It also employs thorough follow up with the project participants and stakeholders to understand their perceptions of the effort. The findings are presented to help ensure the project charter is correctly aligned with the enterprise strategy and the lessons learned from the effort are constructively employed in future enterprise solution efforts for your organization.

For more information about how Collaborative Solutions implementation services can help your planned or current enterprise solution initiative, contact us at inquiries@collaborativesolutions.com.