IDEAS, LLC
3210 La Paz Lane
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Santa Fe: 505.629.4227
Albuquerque: 505.890.9649
Toll Free: 866.656.5113
Fax: 866.642.8918

Services

Usability Engineering

A systematic approach to ensuring a process or product will be attractive and useful to the intended user when completed. May be applied internal process re-engineering to ensure rapid and effective adoption leads to the intended improvements in efficiency. Includes functionality requirements collection and definition, user analysis, systems architecture, prototyping or pilot program launch. (Outside of the software development industry, this is often called user interface engineering/design.)

Systems Engineering

A holistic, interdisciplinary approach to the design of technologies, processes, products or structures that proceeds from concept to production to operation through a structured development process, integrating business objectives and technical expertise to develop quality solutions that meet user needs.

Business Technology Integration

A holistic, systematic process that discovers the paradigm points that drive your business and applies quality principles to find the most effective and economical technologies to implement Total Business Solutions, which may include process re-engineering as well as implementation of appropriate and cost-effective technologies designed and calculated to promote the business model.

Feasibility Studies

Complete analytic and reporting services to determine and document a project's viability, including needs analysis as well as technical, operational and marketing feasibility analyses. Due diligence reporting, including source inspection, source surveillance, process validation assessments, conformance assessment, root cause analysis or system audits.

Impact Analyses

An essential part of the evaluation process for major decisions that allows decision-makers to spot problems before they arise to ensure effective project management and implementation. Includes risk analysis and management planning, contingency and disaster recovery planning, quality assurance and fiscal impact analysis.

Business Process Audit and Design

Business process mapping, modeling and engineering/re-engineering at strategic, tactical or implementation level, with any desired degree of granularity, as well as change management and quality program assessment/development services.

Parametric Multi-Dimensional Modeling

A dynamic engineering and design technology that provides enormous efficiencies in engineering development through the interface between a set of rules and a virtual 3D representation of structures or environments that permits data re-use; pre-production simulation for validation of design objectives, projected ROI and adherence to constraints; and post-production monitoring and ROI verification.

Project Management, Construction Project Management and Financing Lender Services

Representing either owners or financial institutions providing construction capital in due diligence management or oversight of large construction projects. Systems integration for project management to ensure transparency of information so that all parties can avoid unpleasant surprises.

Forensic Project or Systems Analysis

Forensic research is most often thought of in the context of preparing evidence for use in a court of law, but the technique of investigating failure to identify its causes is also extraordinarily useful for process improvement; in fact, in Quality Assurance circles, it is referred to as "root cause analysis." However it may be styled, this type of investigation uses technology to identify the cause(s) of failure whether it be physical failure of a structure/component or process failure leading to a breakdown in communications and cost/schedule overruns with a view to improving future performance or identifying the optimal remediation method. As we practice forensic project or systems analysis, the end result must include identifying the technologies that will be most helpful in remediating the situation and assisting in their implementation.

 

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