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During these difficult economic times with constrained shrinking budgets and workforce, we recognize the enormous impact this has on any business. To meet your business goals it is important today more than in previous years to ensure your institution is in alignment for future growth with a sustainable business model, innovation, information technologies, processes and best practices that work for you. We look forward to listening and understanding your business challenges.

Consulting

ID³ helps clients develop and manage new strategies. In a dynamic business environment, it is the adept, flexible institution that will transform, innovate and lead their market.

• Business Development, Analysis and Optimization - Does your organization have operation challenges? Can you predict, mitigate, and respond to opportunities and threats collectively as an enterprise, effectively within and/or across departments? Staying ahead and being proactive in good or bad economic times requires your business strategies and operations to be in alignment with your IT. To integrate seamlessly existing, planned and future (known and unknown) investments in policies, processes, assets, and resources requires an innovative, smart, and sustainable business and technology approach. At ID³, we work with clients to help make major decisions and implement solutions that noticeable improve business objectives. We leverage an innovative business and technology framework that flexibly enables clients to execute their strategies, while filling the business gaps based on their abilities and timeframes to do so. The framework coupled with an analysis of a client's environment, identifies solutions to predict and respond to business and IT opportunities and threats, operations optimization, and proactively manage risk while ensuring efficiency.
  
  
• Unified Communications Enabled Business Process - For any commercial or public institution to adapt to economic conditions and operate efficiently in the 21^st Century it must optimize its operations to obtain timely accurate information. The goal is to provide accurate situational awareness and make the situational awareness actionable on both the tactical and political dimensions. This is true for planned as well as unplanned events. In the Pre-2001 era, technologies and tools drove business process transformation. In recent years, standards based technologies allowed enablement of some best business practices. With the advent of improved communications, business process transformation enabled by innovation, unified communications and collaboration is available today. ID³ helps clients adapt innovation and unified communications enabled business processes to supply chain, safety, and other business areas.
  
  

• Supply Chain Solutions - For a Supply Chain execution to work efficiently it must be synchronized with critical business processes such as business and financial planning, demand planning, supply planning, and demand and supply matching. Visibility to mesh up data is required to make intelligent real-time decisions across supply, demand and logistics for a dynamic supply-demand balancing solution. We help clients bundle visibility and control of your supply chain into a synchronized view across the end-to-end supply chain - customer, distribution, manufacturing, multi-tiered supply.
  
  
• Request for Proposal (RFP) Development - From beginning to end, the RFP process can be a long and complicated event. From research to organizing to development of the proposal, ID³ business and technical consultants can help you make the process less painful or overly time-consuming.
  
  
• Workshops - The process of identifying critical opportunities or issues involves a structured brainstorming exercise designed to gain input and increase involvement in your project - increasing its chance to be successful. The exercise draws upon the individual and collective knowledge and experiences of a cross-functional and diverse group of people who use their inputs to jump-start the planning process for the project.
  
  

Proof of Concept and Field Exercises

In Proof of Concept (POC) or Field Exercises, we help clients apply innovation; assess user acceptance and effectiveness with the new solution, and possible combine existing assets with new user-friendly technologies to improve the efficiency of your operations and situational awareness. We also work with clients to select use cases that are typical to all types of planned and unplanned tasks or events with the following goals:

• Verify new concepts to improve operations and productivity
• Provide accurate situational awareness (unified voice, video, and data) simultaneously to multiple resources who have the proper credentials and interest
• Leverage processes and technologies in innovative ways
• Test commercial off-the-shelf technologies with existing assets in your environment
• Qualify gaps and resiliency of existing policies and processes

Professional Project Management Services

Innovation Delivered³ provides project management professional (PMP^®) services. We understand the importance of execution; and that delivering your project on time, on budget, and with quality are the factors that will determine the success of your business. If you need assistance planning, executing, closing, or auditing a project, even small ones, we look forward to talking with you. An example of a PMP^® certification is viewable HERE. (ADOBE READER is required and can be downloaded for free HERE.)

Vulnerability Assessments

How vulnerable is your business operation? Do you manage risk effectively? If you are faced with a disaster, are you prepared? If you can answer no to the following questions, then you do not need this service. If you answer yes, then we should have a conversation.

1. Does your disaster recovery plan address key business processes, people, and infrastructure, along with ways to reduce business vulnerability in the entire organization?
2. Is your Business Impact Analysis up to date? Do you know the operational and financial impact of an interruption or outage to your company given today's economy?
3. Have you documented or updated your business continuity goals, objectives, company's unique requirements, issues and challenges?
4. If you cannot afford IT "hot site" contracts, do you have a cost-effective facilitator to provide an immediate acquisition solution when original equipment is lost, destroyed, or unavailable hardware needs to be replaced on an expedited basis?
5. Do your people know what to do in the event of an emergency?
6. Does your crisis management plan take into consideration the specific needs of your staff and their families?
7. When your company experiences an asset loss as a result of a disaster, do you have the experience to ensure you receive the best return on your insurance claim?
8. Have you performed an Integrated Vulnerability Assessment (IVA), which is designed to focus on risk management, continuity of operations, resiliency, vulnerability and mitigation measures as they apply to a specified critical site, business operation, or vital function within a site?
9. Do you have a solid Disaster Recovery Plan in place for your people, your business, one that encompasses pandemic preparedness?
10. The disaster has passed, what can be saved, how do you accomplish the task?