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Focusing on Strategic Objectives

  • Working with key project stakeholders to create project charters defining project objectives, measurable outcomes and risks
  • Assigning responsibility for achieving objectives to key stakeholders
  • Defining user requirements tied to project objectives
  • Testing the delivered IT solution against requirements tied to objectives

Automating the Analysis

  • Using FOUR during facilitated client sessions to define user requirements
  • Defining unique client requirements from a Requirement Library
  • Scoring vendor support for requirements in scripted demonstrations
  • Ranking and selecting finalists based on automatic proposal scores

Building Consensus

  • Collaborating through intensive and interactive work with project stakeholders including the project team, vendor representatives and client management. 
  • Relying on the joint effort of leadership and the "front line" to meet or exceed the objectives
  • Eliminating surprises and building trust for all concerned by keeping everyone involved

Managing Change

  • Identifying and comparing current and future states to clarify what is changing
  • Using "impact sheets" showing how changes affect each individual's work
  • Providing tools for continuous improvement after the "project" is over
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