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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.
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.
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.
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 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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