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Delphi Group's Consultants use a proven set of comprehensive methodologies
specifically designed for the TechMarkets we cover. These powerful
tools enable them to deliver consistent quality, streamlined engagements
and objective recommendations – all in a fraction of the
time required by other consultants.
Delphi Group does not resell or recommend any vendor's software or hardware
solution for financial benefit. We are not a systems integrator,
VAR or reseller. Our experience, objectivity and extensive knowledge-base
make Delphi Group's quality of service the most effective in the industry.
Portals
Portal Design & Development Methodology (PDDM)
PDDM provides an assessment of your organization's needs for
portal technology and paves the way for rapid deployment of your
corporate portal. PDDM's multi-step process evaluates your organization's
knowledge use, clearly differentiating process-based versus content-based
knowledge. Existing portal-related activities and attitudes are
also factored into this analysis. Using PDDM, Delphi Group assesses
the type of portal tool most appropriate to your organization,
ensures that the front-end will efficiently support single point-of-access
to your knowledge base, and recommends how the portal taxonomy
should be established and maintained. If your organization has
a broad awareness of its need for a corporate portal, PDDM supports
your next steps with a specific needs analysis and the rapid establishment
of an action / implementation plan. (more
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Portal Optimization Methodology
POM provides a structured framework for analyzing your portal
implementation and maximizing its ongoing value to your organization.
The methodology offers a concise, objective evaluation of portal
deployment to date, while identifying salient opportunities for
improvement. Have the portal's functionality, performance, and
ROI objectives been met? Has user feedback been solicited and
analyzed to improve application services? Are infrastructure services
being reused for maximum leverage? POM addresses these and many
other issues in the context of a structured methodology. If your
organization has already committed significant resources to building
its portal applications, an incremental investment in POM can
maximize return on investment, identify points of material leverage,
and allow you to extend and expand portal services with clarity
and confidence.
Knowledge
Management
Corporate IQ
Knowledge
Audit (Km2) and the Corporate IQ(r) Test
Knowledge management projects raise multiple issues for which
there are no easy answers. Development of a strategy and solution
design is like navigating through a dark room, filled with unknown
obstacles and issues. KM2 and Delphi's proprietary Corporate IQ test brings all these issues into
light via a diagnostic methodology designed exclusively for Knowledge
Management analysis and planning. KM2 and the Corporate IQ test quickly reveal
the potential for KM in your organization, expose the greatest
opportunities and identifies the major obstacles. The methodologies
delivers a comprehensive set of documented metrics that objectively
rank your organization's need for, attitude regarding and potential
opportunities in KM. In addition, a senior Delphi Group analyst provides
a recommendation on how best to proceed with your knowledge management
initiative. (more info...)
*Corporate IQ and KM2 are registered trademarks of Delphi Group an Acrovantage Company.
ROI
(Return on Investment)
Today’s economic uncertainty has
put new pressure on enterprises to perform even more cautious
analytical reviews of their current and proposed e-business programs.
The easy projects -- the low-hanging fruit — are done. Today,
companies insist on seeing the quantifiable process improvements
they will get before funding new projects. They also want metrics
available to them to follow the project over its useful life to
ensure the promised benefits have been realized. (more
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TCO
Total Cost of Ownership
In today’s cost conscience business world, understanding
the complete cost of a technology-based business solution is as
critical as selecting the right technology platforms. But assessing
the total cost of a project can be tricky. Pilots can mask steep
costs required to increase functionality or rollout across the
enterprise. Conversely your pilot may require steep initial investment
whose true value will come from simple low cost add-ons going
forward. Where will your solution costs arise, and how much functionality
will each investment yield. Will the costs be in hardware, software,
services, training and/or maintenance? What can be deferred and
at what cost? (more
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e-Learning
ELM optimizes your organization's ability to educate
and empower its human capital by strategically and effectively
leveraging e-Learning technologies and practices. ELM focuses
on the business need for high velocity education, integrated into
your extended value chains. The methodology results in a comprehensive
Web-enabled e-Learning strategy that maximizes both external and
organizational knowledge. Using a variety of structured tools
and interviewing techniques, ELM looks at the practical implications
of e-Learning within your organization and between it and its
customers, partners and suppliers.
Stair Step: Prioritizing Your Implementation
Strategy
Stair Step is an analytical methodology that provides structured
and objective analysis of the level of complexity associated with
each candidate business application. This analysis provides an
objective assessment of the pilot applications most advantageous
to your organization. A prioritized implementation strategy is
developed which maps out the steps to a corporate solution.
The System Schematic: An Implementation Blueprint
The System Schematic acts as a blueprint for process analysis,
design, and jutification. Using a set of software-based visualization
tools, and extensive repertoire of business process modeling techniques,
and interactive team-based methods, its comprehensive nature and
detail makes it extremely effective in determining how to balance
tactical applications with the long-term strategic objectives
of your organization. The result of this analysis gives a pictorial
representation of process flows, organizational architecture and
technology infrastructure.
Time-Based Analysis: Process De-engineering
(TBA)
TBA is a cornerstone in the investigation of specific business
processes. TBA de-engineers a business process into its component
tasks and determines those areas of the business process that
can realize the greatest benefit from the application of technology
and/or subtle changes in procedure. Developed as a sophisticated
software model, TBA analysis provides a simple means for viewing
the complex rules, routes, queues, and associated times that comprise
a business process. It also determines the extent to which technologies
alone will affect the desired level of change within your organization,
and the degree to which cultural, procedural and infrastructure
issues will also have to be affected. Ultimately, TBA can serve
as the foundation for a detailed ROI analysis.
RFP Template/ Request for Proposal Template
Delphi Group’s RFP Template provides the necessary structure and
level of detail to ensure your request for bids from solution
providers results in thorough, timely and valuable responses.
The use of this Template expedites the time necessary to create
an RFP and imposes a time-proven approach to effective needs communication
and product/vendor response evaluation.
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