Software Selection
Instead of product sellers, our team is led by professional consultants
with years of real-life experience helping business owners and managers
eliminate inefficiencies and improve their business processes. We
have extensive experience with all the leading systems and conduct
ongoing research on emerging solutions. In order to define your
requirements explicitly, focusing on unique and critical items,
we supplement the needs you’ve already identified with our own comprehensive
industry-specific checklists. Then we prioritize these requirements
with your own team.
A typical software selection
project includes the following steps:
Phase One - Analysis
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Scope meeting to discuss
critical success factors, measurements of success...
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Staff interviews to
understand existing requirements, problems, opportunities for improvement,
and business process
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Scope Report that
includes Critical Success Factors, major
problems, opportunities for improvement, key requirements, scope and
schedule
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Requirements Report based on our generic
checklists and input from scope meeting and
interviews focusing on key/unique requirements
defined unambiguously
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Requirements meeting to confirm requirements
and their priority.
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Request For Proposal
prepared
Phase Two -
Selection
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Identification of
potential vendors
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Request for Proposal
issued
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Preliminary
analysis of potential vendors includes costs, scoring of their responses,
underlying technology...
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Demonstrations of
short listed vendors
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References called
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Proof of concept -
demonstration based on day-in-the-life script that we prepare
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Contract negotiations
The methodology used for
software selection will vary slightly depending on the type of software
being selected. The greater the risk in making the wrong selection, the more
effort that should be taken. You might want to consider the consultants that
offer system selection services as insurance. Would you pay a small % of the
costs of the system for a consultant to reduce the risks of making the wrong
selection? Click here for our system
selection methodology.
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