Up-to-5-Day Package

Get fast, thorough results with up to a week of guidance and facilitation in choosing, implementing,
and configuring tools, or in rolling-out new tools and fostering adoption of new practices.

If you will be deploying new tools...		If you want to deploy tools or best practices across a team or entire organization...
We facilitate and lead your organization through selection, integration planning and implementation of tools: 1) Faciliate meetings with your staff in which products are demonstrated and they come to understand the tools alternatives. These lead to decisions on tools and initiating the implementation plan. 2) Represent your business needs to IT re: tools selection and/or implementation factors. Develop a set of alternatives for dealing with technology issues and work with you to make appropriate decisions. 3) Leadership for your staff or IT in configuring the required capabilities identified in prior phases.		We provide models for best practices and guide implementation of those models in your organization in these ways: 1) Guide senior or team managers to plan how to manage the use of tools in their organizational domain. We use our Tools Management Team (TMT) methodology, which adapts to fit your organizational culture. It includes approaches for metrics of adoption and ROI. 2) Coach managers in creating and kicking off the Tools Management initiative: includes staff selection for key roles, then agenda and facilitation of initial meetings. 3) Ongoing support to staff in key tools- management roles. Coach staff in deploying best-practice approaches for integrating tool features with work processes. Can include developing practices around: >> Techniques which make updates, decisions, and assignments from meetings more visible across the organization. >> Methods for storing and tagging work products and files, making them easily accessible for current efforts, re-use in other projects, and for organizational memory. >> Approaches that enhance participation in work processes by remote team members, clients, and partners. >> Methods to jointly produce documents, efficiently gather feedback and inputs.

History
We've created systems of team tools that save tens of thousands of work hours annually. On a recent NASA project, 100 engineers and managers reported that our system saved each of them well over 1 hr./wk. That's 2,400 hours of time saved over the 6-month project, or > $1,000,000/year annualized. An early extranet system we were primary on at Apple Computer yielded savings in direct costs (reduced travel expenses, delivery fees, etc.) of over $6,000,000/year. These calculations do not include the intangibles of improved communication. A program we participated in at FAA realized returns of 6.7% of total departmental budgets - direct costs plus productivity improvements - in the departments that implemented recommended practices.

Your ROI
We can project results of saving 25 people an average of at least ½ hour/week at $75/hour: ~$1000/week of your human capital costs, every week. Increase productivity and effectiveness with better collaborative methods and the right tools.

And Beyond
We're experts in the general capabilities of networked tools and how networked tools can be overlaid - like a glove on a hand - with use practices. When the right tools are combined with effective use practices, team and organizational productivity increase dramatically.