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Although implementation
consultants may seem expensive, try to resist measuring their contribution
minute by minute or hourly. A good consultant should be able to contribute
plans, templates, ideas, and advice every week that may save thousands of
dollars and make the difference between success and failure.
Rule of thumb: A typical
application implementation takes three to five times as many client
project team days as consulting days.
A "good"
consultant in a technology field may have to spend 25% of his/her time to
stay current with changes in technology.
Discovering the business
process flow is an important analysis activity for the project team. To
facilitate analysis by a group, tack a large piece of newsprint or butcher
paper to a wall. Then write the process action words and documents on
Post-it-Notes, and stick the notes to the paper. Draw horizontal
"swim lanes" on the paper to show departmental process
boundaries and use the bottom edge of the paper to show elapsed time.
As the pace of business continues to
accelerate, many companies are improve the decision making process and
make rapid and efficient decisions. The process can be summarized in six
steps.
1. Define the problem.
2. Identify the decision criteria
3. Weight the criteria
4. Generate alternatives
5. Rate each alternative on each criteria
6. Compute the optimal decision
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