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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

  • Scope meeting to discuss critical success factors, measurements of success...

  • Staff interviews to understand existing requirements, problems, opportunities for improvement, and business process

  • Scope Report that includes Critical Success Factors, major problems, opportunities for improvement, key requirements, scope and schedule

  • Requirements Report based on our generic checklists and input from scope meeting and interviews focusing on key/unique requirements defined unambiguously

  • Requirements meeting to confirm requirements and their priority.

  • Request For Proposal prepared

Phase Two - Selection

  • Identification of potential vendors

  • Request for Proposal issued

  • Preliminary analysis of potential vendors includes costs, scoring of their responses, underlying technology...

  • Demonstrations of short listed vendors

  • References called

  • Proof of concept - demonstration based on day-in-the-life script that we prepare

  • 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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