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The Independent
Computer Consultants Association (ICCA), a national not-for-profit
organization which promotes ethical professionalism within the
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Consulting
The process of interviewing the stake holders to discover what their goals
are, what the assets are, what the environment is and then return a matrix of
solutions to facilitate reaching the goals desired. RMMi is focused on brining
benefit to your organization.
Key Benefits
- Varied and diverse background of RMMi brings new ideas to solving the
challenges that face your organization.
- The consultant's goal is to make you look good. You look good to who you
report to and you will hire the consultant back for more. Let me help you
find the best solution within your budget needs.
- Effective analysis of the issues and hands on solutions to the problems
equate to goals achieved. RMMi consulting can encompass a challenge and
address it head on.
Capabilities
Our value position is diversity which is key for a good consultant as is effective communication. The
ability to understand the issue be it a business issue, manufacturing issue,
scientific issue, engineering issue, user interpersonal issue, sales and
marketing issue, or a problem to solve that reaches the breadth of all the
disciplines in the organization.
From the point of view of task doer, manager,
visionary a good consultant has to have an understanding of each level of
business to be able to recognize root causes of the problems that bring the
stake holder to make the call for help from outside.
Once on the job the
effective consultant must know how to listen to the needs, project manage the
process, and communicate effectively in the way that the stake holder can hear
it best. Let RMMi help you discover the best solution to fit your needs. Whether
they are one of the following specific skills or something new and exciting...
- Business process optimization with technology
- Analysis of existing work flows often reveal opportunity to reduce
manual intervention in the process. These are perfect opportunities for
applying technology solutions to streamline labor time per task. Automation,
tracking, data transfer, even data capture for reporting purposes leads to
knowledge that can be utilized to improve systems in the future. It is all
about improvement of quality and the bottom line!
- Business growth strategy
- Ever sit staring at a flat growth chart and you are just not sure what you
can do to improve business? There are many aspects, many considerations,
many directions to take your department, division, or company. Is it a
process improvement in manufacturing? Perhaps a channel distribution could
be modified to improve just in time delivery with sharing data between
vendors and customers? Is your sales market region saturated? Where can you
expand? Has your customer base shifted due to external market variables?
RMMi can assist in analysis and study to get you the information you need!
- Project planning
- What is going to make successful project? Having vision of the goal to
achieve is more then just a good thing, it is imperative. Is the mission
statement of the project to complete all phases by date X within budget Y?
Of course it is. So how do you do that? Have you brought in line the
expectations of what is needed to rapidly get the core deadline
accomplished? What are the contingencies? Does the project completion mean
that you deliver full documentation of help files, reference, procedures,
project folder with sidebar notes and project branches for future
consideration? You know all the great ideas that the user and developer come
up with along the way that sound great make sense but would equate to scope
creep if allowed to be pursued on your projects timeline? How will you keep
the team focused and online to success?
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- Meeting optimization and communication strategy
- Integral to the project planning phase, meeting optimization and
communication strategy sound simple and often gets derailed. Having a
defined meeting process is important, having the expectation of agendas and
rules of engagement
during a meeting equate to keeping the beasts short and
sweet so folks can get back on task. Too often meetings get out of hand and
do not effectively use the assets or get value from the full cost of that
meeting. Think about it, the cost of the facility, of each staff members
fully loaded per hour cost to the bottom line and the financial folk will
cringe at the waste.
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- Running a meeting is a step to being a successful project manager, a
successful project manager is a step to division management, successful
division management is a direct line to the front office, a successful
corporate executive is an asset to the company. Allowing mistakes and
opportunities for growth starting in a meeting is part of fostering a
workplace where everyone can access the growth path for a top dollar
position.
- Customer profiling
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Who is your customer? If you can not answer that on the spot, how are
you going to fill their needs? Grow their ranks? How do you go about
defining who is going to support your job and buy your service or product?
RMMi can help define and research just who is making your company succeed.
Market position
- Inline with customer profiling know where you stand in your given market
and how to keep your fingers on that position is all about collecting the
right data. Turning that data into useful information and keeping it inline
with appropriate research and market analysis. RMMi can assist in all
aspects of defining reporting and maintaining future ease of reports to help
you keep where you want to be in your market.
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- Sales target matrix
- Are your sales folks clear what they need to achieve to keep the company
growth in the right direction? Are the right reports and information being
shared between development and manufacturing? Do you know where your bottom
line is? A clear matrix of all variables and clear method of tracking real
time is key to successful sales. Let RMMi discover how you can get the right
data at the right time to make the right decisions!
- Job definition duties and hiring description copy
- Just like scope creep, job creep starts the snowball of mushy and grey
spots in your group. What does that person do and who is their backup? Often
the folks in Human Resources are not engineers or scientists or financial
wizards, they take what you give them and find a person whom you ask for to
fill the job to fit with the corporate needs for EOC and budget guidelines.
How you define what you need is more then something you do while waiting for
your flight to Topeka. Like strategizing your next move in a game, too
little thought will equate to some surprises too much thought and you are
not getting anywhere. Let RMMi help in finding that balance and help you
meet your goals of building your best team you can!
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