Solution Team International, LLC

Experience(These are the companies where our consultants honed their skills, either as executives, partners, engineers, or consultants.)

Pacific Life Insurance Company

American Express Financial Advisors (now Ameriprise Financial)

McKinsey & Company:

GE Corporate Research & Development

Blue Capital

AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Lucent)

GE Capital Audit Staff

GE Medical

GE Aircraft Engines

Word & Brown Insurance Company

TRW Space and Electronics Division (now Northrop Gruman)

IBM Defense Systems (now Loral)

Rockwell International: Rocketdyne Division

GE Aerospace

Hughes Aircraft Company

It is our experience, coupled with our global reach, that yields the most cost-effective results you will obtain from any consulting partners. Contact Solution Team.



Business Strategy Information Technology Strategy Due Diligence	Requirements Analysis and Management Architecture and Design Software Development Product Development Organizational Design Change Management Program Management	Team Performance Management Quality Assurance Balanced Scorecard
Managing Execution
How much time and money do you spend refereeing internal social issues? How much time and money do you spend recruiting talent? How much time and money do you spend managing performance issues? How much time and money is left over for creating REAL VALUE? It is nearly impossible for a business to continually maintain the optimal staff levels and skills for delivering on your changing business opportunities and needs. Contact Solution Team, and we'll help you build a more flexible staffing model, leveraging your best people, a small contingent of Solution Team Consultants, and the right mix of cost-effective, skilled offshore labor.

Requirements Analysis and Management Does your current organization: Consistently document and validate Use Cases and Requirements for every effort? Update and leverage Use Cases and Requirements throughout the Software Development Life Cycle, particularly in Quality Assurance, Training, and Troubleshooting? Ask the right questions before development begins?
Solution Team provides expert facilitation capabilities to lead your project teams through the development of professional Use Cases and Business Requirements that in and of themselves will lead to improvements in your development results. We can supply Project Management and Business/Process Analyst talent to execute the Analysis stage, or we can provide coaching to improve the effectiveness of your current organization.

Architecture and Design Does your current organization: Publish and utilize architectural and coding standards for technology integration? Rapidly build the majority of new features by re-using and re-purposing existing objects? Know how to design highly extensible, scalable, maintainable applications? Know for certain that all development and maintenance efforts are aligned with your overall strategy?
Solution Team provides expertise in Enterprise Architecture. We have a passion for enabling consistently high quality, high impact results. Leverage our experience, particularly with .NET architectures, to ensure that you are making excellent architectural choices that don't paint you into a corner down the road.

Software Development Does your current organization: Provide a decent return on your Information Technology investment? Deliver consistently high quality solutions in a timely fashion? Understand the impacts of Information Technology on business process efficiency?
Solution Team can significantly improve your bottom line and relieve your development bottlenecks by leveraging our managed offshore development capabilities to cost effectively expand your project pipeline. Our seasoned professional consultants will work seamlessly with your Information Technology group and Business Process owners to ensure that all development efforts are aligned, prioritized, and well-executed.

Product Development Does your current organization: Have the ability to analyse product features and compare to competitive offerings? Understand the most cost-effective ways to protect your intellectual property? Provide the global reach you need to fully explore development partnership opportunities?
Solution Team can partner with you in developing your ideas to their full potential. We can represent you in partnership negotiations while maintaining confidentiality. We ask the tough questions required to prevent you from investing in non-starters. Once you've got a viable product strategy, we can accelerate execution.

Organizational Design Does your current organization: Align executive and management responsibilities with the necessary level of authority? Consistently provide challenges for your top-performers? Scale to meet a varying workload? Align development teams with key business capabilities? Are you still organized around technology platforms? Does that hender the process integration you'll need to compete? Support the accountabilities and processes necessary to comply with regulatory requirements like Sarbanes Oxley?
Solution Team has experience building and managing teams of all sizes and configurations. We'll help you get your resources better organized to deliver, taking into account your business model, existing organizational strengths and challenges, and your competitive posture.

Change Management Does your current organization: Have the ability to implement large-scale changes? Have cultural barriers to change? Invest in new ways of doing business, but then fail to take advantage of the new approaches?
Solution Team recognizes the importance and difficulty of this crucial process. More importantly, we recognize that change is a process of transformation that hinges on early participation with your staff, as well as effective, timely and clear communication. We'll lead you through effective change management and validate your arrival at the desired destination.

Program Management Does your current organization: Fully understand the business impact and priority of each project and staff accordingly? Actively manage the mix of innovation, process improvement, maintenance and infrastructure projects? Fully understand inter-project dependencies? Communicate the status of your project porfolio in a way that keeps you fully informed and enables you to make business decisions?
Solution Team provides experienced Project and Program Managers, as well as coaching to improve this important capability in your organization. Our approach simultaneously ensures a better information flow, as well as improved delivery capability. Ultimately, our approach ensures dramatically improved returns on your Information Technology investments.

Articles

"The Strategy endgame: Communicating measurable objectives."

"Requirements: The backbone of Software Development Methodology"

"How to build Quality Assurance into the entire Software Development Lifecycle"

Deliverables Templates

Information Technology Strategy

Business Requirements

Balanced Scorecard