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How many engineers and scientists understand how to evaluate properly the value of technology?
How often does a company start a development process and then stop it because the sources of value or costs of development had not been fully explored?
How often do a company let projects go on for too long because there was no formal review to say no, or because the quality of the review was inadequate?

Nexus Consulting can help your teams in the following key areas:

  1. Provide input on team selection to ensure all relevant input,
  2. Assist in establishing sources of value and ensuring thorough economic evaluation of the options including full cost to deliver,
  3. Prepare a comprehensive business and technical statement of requirements against which the project would be judged,
  4. Provide technical support and coaching to teams and help them achieve their goals,
  5. Set up and run a peer review at key points to ensure critical input from outside parties.

As your organization's business requirements are defined and the supporting information technologies are identified, subsequent efforts will lead to the selection of a specific product, vendor, or service provider that most adequately meets the business objectives and budget requirements of your organization. Nexus can help you manage this effort developing the list of available products, vendors, or providers, writing your Requests for Proposal (RFP), and managing the evaluation process with a fair and unbiased approach designed to help you achieve the greatest benefit from your strategic IT investment.

We can help you select any number of Network Infrastructure Solutions and Services, such as:

  1. Hosting Services
  2. Internet Services
  3. Telecommunications Services
  4. Disaster Recovery Services
  5. Storage Solutions
  6. High Availability Solutions
  7. Information Security Solutions

Unlike most of the consulting firms focused in Business Intelligence or Performance Management, Nexus chose to remain TECHNOLOGY VENDOR INDEPENDENT. While this can be a lonely stance, it truly empowers our teams to help clients pick the right technology, not solely the ones we like to work with.

As an independent advisor to many firms evaluating Performance Management technology, Nexus has a proven approach to properly evaluate and select the best tool for the job at hand.  Not simply an organization out to create endless Requests for Proposals (RFP), our teams truly live the business problem and implicitly understand the methods by which many distinct technology firms address these challenges.

We follow a requirement driven process centered on mutual discovery and education.  Unlike many organizations that work to complicate the selection process, our focus is building true insight within the decision making team.  Most technology solutions approach business problems with a common theme in fact, often over 70% of requirements in even the most rigid RFP process are met by every vendor in the process.  Our approach focuses the buying team on the 30% that is distinct and often deterministic.