All of our services are designed to help you to leverage technology initiatives to change the status quo of your organization.  A typical engagement starts with an assessment based on understanding and modeling an organization's needs and existing strategy.  This assessment may be done in conjunction with a seminar or workshop, allowing the client to get immediate value from Delta Initiative with a flexible approach.

Strategy and Assessment
How can you make the right decisions about key programs if you do not have accurate information? If your actual costs are unknown? If there are hidden policies? The answer is - you can't, without some luck. All too often, the business culture leads to pockets of hidden information, thus key decisions are made without truly benefiting the entire organization.  The good news is that you can get accurate information within the business culture - and we can help you.
When attempting to resolve this dilemma, we have found that a crucial aspect of any successful approach is to increase the communication between the various business groups. Our approach is to help you create a Strategic Assessment for the key programs - allowing you to develop the plan for what each business group needs to do to achieve the organization’s objectives. This is an approach that reveals your organization's short-term and long-term organization needs and develops a plan for meeting those needs.

Project Portfolio Management
Success of a strategy is measured by the effectiveness of the implementation and the value delivered. In today’s environment funding is difficult and therefore it is extremely important to ensure the value delivered is maximized by ensuring the right projects with the right funding are selected.  During budget cuts, how should an organization decide which projects to keep, which to cancel, and which to defer?  Prioritization of the projects ensures the right projects are selected based on the value delivered.  It is also critical to review operational systems to determine the value delivered to the organization.  A majority of an IT budget is allocated to existing systems. Many times a review of the value delivered from the existing systems will identify opportunities for significant savings.

Market Analysis and Vendor Selection
We have in-depth knowledge of key technology vendors, but we do not work for them. Our experience and proven approach in evaluating vendors ensures the vendor selection is based on true business needs.  Every organization has unique needs and the marketplace is changing rapidly, but our approach and experience keep us up-to-speed. You benefit from quicker and more effective  assessments that provide immediate value.  For technology initiatives, making the right decision with the right approach is the start of a successful project.

Project Management and Implementation Planning
Many organizations are facing enterprise-wide IT implementations where they cannot afford to fail.  A great number of implementations often experience significant budget overruns or are even abandoned, costing millions of dollars and causing untold frustrations.  Professional project management provided by an outside management source, one with experience in ERP projects, can help reduce risk, increase quality, and potentially save millions of dollars for the organization.

We are a hands-on organization in terms of working with your staff to accomplish your objectives.  We lead and facilitate meetings, develop and review schedules - all to ensure timely completion and institute appropriate controls (e.g., change management, quality control) to ensure the organization is self-sufficient when we leave.  Our process for setting the project up for  success addresses the organization (Are the right people in the right place?  Is the organization built for success?), then processes (Are there repeatable, documented processes in place that can sustain the organization?) and finally the technology (Does it meet or fulfill the business requirements for which it was purchased?).  Finally, is the discipline in place to ensure each component works together to meet the objectives and goals?

Project Recovery
We are sometimes called upon to salvage enterprise projects that are near death.  When recovering a project, we focus on providing a quick assessment - identifying gaps, determining what is working well, identifying root causes of problems, and creating a plan to bring the project back on track.  We also help declare death of projects - we don’t always “recover” it.  Sometimes it is better to take a new route.  By applying our experience from project planning, we help your organization develop strong communication and change management practices, as well as developing the discipline to succeed.

Risk Management
The use of information technology has increased dramatically in all areas of business, including privacy and regulatory requirements.  Records are maintained on-line and various systems and applications need to be interconnected to present a seamless interaction to the users.  The proliferation of technology as well as the demands for regulatory compliance, privacy and data security, bring a number of challenges that must be carefully considered in order to ensure the organization is able to provide services to customers while maintaining the organization’s reputation.  We can help you with a realistic plan to  protect sensitive information, meet information security/regulatory guidelines, and plan to provide continued services in case of interruption event.