Tactical Challenges

Whether it’s performance or downtime issues with SQL servers, an application problem, a mobile problem, or a reporting problem involving business intelligence, many of our longstanding clients started with short-term pain we were able to solve quickly by giving them access to one of our senior team members.

In many cases it was a very short-term, low-cost engagement that resulted in a better mutual understanding of capabilities and challenges. Most importantly, it gave companies like Mungo Homes, Metromont, and Virtual Job Shadow a feel for how our teams might collaborate together long-term. We believe that’s a worthy investment of our time.

If you’re thinking, “I have a tactical problem,” — let’s talk. We promise you’ll talk to a senior level leader to help map out next steps.

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Growth Challenges

We’ve found that when clients have a gap between the vision for the next few years of growth and the ability to execute, they’re either missing knowledge, resources or both. From rapid-growth organizations like Zipit, Trinity Healthcare, and Ellipsis to global leaders such as ScanSource and BMW where we’ve been deeply rooted for years as a development partner, new technologies and custom software development have both been game-changers. They engaged us to solve two types of problems:

• Rapid-growth organizations need senior-level advice to help evaluate, integrate, and support new technologies as processes change, including advice on whether to purchase existing software or build their own.
• Deeply rooted partners need senior-level collaboration with in-house development teams. Knowledgeable leadership along with an agile approach will create the best results and spot any systemic problems that the same new custom software solution might address.

We’d love to discuss how we might be of similar value to your leadership.

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Critical Systems Challenges

When manufacturing assembly lines or other communications and workflow processes break down, everybody loses time and money. We find clients come to us because they’re vulnerable in one of three ways:

• Knowledge of how to run a critical part of our process is locked up in one person.
• Our best people are stuck maintaining current systems instead of working on things that move the business forward.
• We’re trying to find a solution for both redundancy and coverage, for less than the cost of two full-time resources.

Since the recession in 2008, many companies began asking internal senior developers to spend more time managing applications instead of writing them. That environment eroded retention and profitability, because great developers thrive on maximizing the talents you hired them for — creating things that make a big impact, not troubleshooting and maintaining.

Clients like Mungo Homes and AFL found we create value not just by proactively supporting and keeping critical systems running, but by helping shift those developers away from getting pulled in too many directions and back to working within the core competencies where they’re needed the most in your business.

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