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  • Are you really going to choose a business consultant by reading their website?

    Of course you're not, so why not cut to the chase and call me, Sarah, on 03 442 3645. A quick chat is the easiest and fastest way for you to find out whether we'll be able to work together to grow your business. I'm always happy to talk about business innovation and strategic change and if I can't help you, maybe I can point you towards someone who can. If you'd prefer that I phone you just use my contact form to let me know and I'll get back to you.

    • New Technology

    From the business (ie non-technical) perspective the introduction of new technology should be a symmetrical process.

    symetrical IT project process

    The process should include all of the following stages:

    1. Vision – what the business will achieve through the technology.
    2. Business Requirements – what the business actually wants to do with the technology.
    3. Functional Specification – a translation of step 2 into terms describing what the technology needs to do in order to enable the business to do what it needs to do.
    4. Technical Specification – a translation of step 3 into what specific technology will be used for each element.
    5. Building – assembling all the software and hardware described in step 4 into a system.
    6. System Testing – testing that all the software and hardware does what was described in step 3, individually and all together and fixing as necessary.
    7. User Acceptance Testing – testing that the business can do what was defined in step 2 and fixing as necessary.
    8. Implementation & Review- implementing then assessing whether the business is achieving what was defined in step 1.

    Project cost and time over-runs, failure to acheive expected benefits and general dissatisfaction with new technology are often a result of a failure to fully complete one of these steps.