Business Impact Assessment

Be an IT Project Success Story

The stakes are high with costly and long-term software implementations. It not only affects your entire company, but customers and partners for years to come. You’ve heard it before and it’s a shame it’s true, but 68% of IT projects face impairment or failure*.

The reasons why IT projects fail are:

• Insufficient User Input
• Lack of Alignment Between Internal Stakeholders
• Incomplete Project Requirements
• Basing Software Selection on Historic Performance
• Lack of Executive Support
• Radical Organizational Scope Change
• Buying the Demo without Company Related Examples
• Unclear and Undefined Objectives
• Impractical Time Frames
• Ranking the Product Over the Professional Service Firm

Don’t fall victim to the statistics! Developing an RFP, watching the vendor parade, making a software selection based on product demos and implementing the software without mapping out the challenges is a project headed straight for failure. There is a better way.

Eliminate Failure with a Business Impact Assessment

Not every business has the same objectives from their IT projects so it is imperative to understand what is most important to you and your business before getting overwhelmed in the details of selecting a product and a vendor. Whether it’s defining the right requirements, establishing the business case, creating a project scope or understanding the technical mechanics of a project, we provide software buyers the guidance needed to succeed.

Let’s face the facts…as a business professional focused on expertly running your business, you are unlikely to have as much software selection experience as a 30-year software veteran that intimately knows the product and implementation pitfalls. We provide that experienced, independent person to walk with you during the most critical phases of your software selection journey.

Through our well-tested Business Impact Assessment we will help you:

• Reduce your risk
• Establish your business case
• Confirm the key success criteria required for project implementation
• Clarify project roles
• Define high level requirements
• Establish a preliminary project scope

At the end of this assessment you will have a report that encompasses all you need to know to ensure success in your IT Project.

“I cannot tell you what a relief it is to find professionals like you to guide our small enterprise where ‘chaos’ is our middle name. We have a family business that has been searching for the right solution for years now, and after engaging with us, you showed us a comprehensive way to succeed. For the first time we bought as a team!”

- Elesh Parujanwala, GM, En Kay Industrial Supplies Inc.

*According to a study by the research organization, The Standish Group, based out of Boston, Massachusetts.