Ariel's Services: Strategic Consulting

Ariel Services: Strategic Consulting

Every day, companies from startups to the Fortune 500 attempt to implement technology or develop business applications. These efforts typically yield mixed results and come at a significant price. These applications drain resources when:

They require extensive training sessions every time new people are hired.
They require special effort from the IT department every time modifications are necessary.
Users don't achieve the projected efficiencies.
Corporate knowledge is lost or is not captured.
Customers find your Web Site or Product difficult to use.

Ariel can help whether you are beginning to plan the development of a new application or you already have one deployed. We'll team up with your Information Technology Group, Training Organization and Business Unit to help ensure that your implementation is successful and effective.

When you choose Ariel, you'll be in company with organizations such as John Deere, Payless ShoeSource, Nortel Networks, Taco Bell, Wells Fargo and many others.

What are Strategic Consulting Services?

Ariel offers Strategic Consulting Services to clients who want to benefit from our experience, expertise and proven methodology. We become value-added members of your organization and work to achieve your objectives. We can understand your business problem and deliver succinct, actionable advice by drawing on:

Our experience designing with humans in mind.
Our ability to leverage and innovate best practices from many industries.
The thought and trends of industry leaders and innovators.
The proven Ariel PSE™ Methodology and our successful track record.

What occurs during this activity?

Ariel's consulting activities are based solely upon your needs. It is not uncommon for clients to ask Ariel to:

Maximize business impact from technical investments.
Help calculate or determine a return on investment.
Overcome a hurdle in planning, defining, or development efforts.
Evaluate a purchasing or implementation decision.
Improve customer experiences with a web site or product.
Capture and share knowledge and best practices throughout organizations.
Reduce the time to competency of end users.
Reduce end user training efforts and support.
Provide guidance in championing the development of a Performance Support System.
Improve productivity and quality.

What will I receive at the end of this engagement?

The deliverables from a Strategic Consulting engagement are derived from your need and are agreed upon before the engagement starts. All deliverables and recommendations will:

Represent our best and unbiased opinion based upon our experience and proven methodology.
Contain information, data and ideas that will have a significant impact.
Be professionally performed and communicated.
Held in confidence.

How will I benefit from Strategic Consulting Services?

Ariel brings a unique perspective. We focus on making it easy for users to meet business objectives; not just making it easy to use. Often times this means using existing or leading edge technology in new and innovative ways. Our work exposes us to a wide variety of technology in different markets every day. That collective experience helps us see opportunities that just aren't visible to others.

Your business environment is filled with obstacles:

Tight development budgets that require you optimize benefits from your technology investments.
Demands that requests for technology funding be accompanied by a compelling business case.
The need to make tangible your vision for technology that truly meets business needs.
Increased pressures to design technology that directly links to business strategies.
Demands for increased productivity, accuracy and customer service.

Ariel's proven process lets you meet these challenges and achieve a return on investment that will please bottom-line conscious executives. Call us today to schedule a demonstration showing the before and after states of several applications that will help you realize the difference you can make when you Design with Humans in Mind.