Project recovery and turnaround
Avoid project cancellation and reduce the risk of failure. Our certified, senior project managers can help you salvage critical, but troubled projects. We will assess your current situation, report back on our assessment, and design a project recovery strategy to get your project back on track. Once you regain control, we can keep you there with project management support, monitoring, and expert guidance.

Metrics and project dashboard
Provide meaningful answers to the question, “How’s the project doing?” by capturing and monitoring the metrics that matter. Building on the predictive project plans our professional project managers prepare, we continually capture and use metrics to communicate to project sponsors and improve project success. The monitored criteria include time, cost, resources, scope, quality, and outstanding action items. We display project progress against criteria using a PowerPoint dashboard with simple icons (stop lights, charts, graphs) that focus attention on areas that need attention.

Independent verification and validation (IV&V)
A well-planned project always includes continuous review, but internal reviews may not be comprehensive enough for mission-critical projects. Our senior project managers conduct independent reviews to ensure progress toward business goals. We have the experience, knowledge, tools, and diplomacy to verify and validate project progress and compliance.

Competency/skill management
Get the right people with the right skills in the right positions. Our human performance specialists guide you in defining the competency management strategy that is right for your culture, organizational structure, outcomes, and skill sets. We can manage the integration of competency management and learning management systems. Or we can construct performance-centered competency models for you by analyzing key performers and documenting the outcomes they produce and the behaviors required to do so. To help you achieve organization buy-in of competency management, we can facilitate executive steering committees and develop a plan for integration and widespread use.

Learning management system and eLearning
Maximize the value of your investments in eLearning, distance learning, or learning management. Our consultants facilitate the definition of your eLearning vision and strategy, can assess its feasibility given your business situation, and can assess the ability of different vendors’ systems to meet your requirements. To help you ensure the success of your eLearning strategies and plans, we can guide the development of a comprehensive infrastructure, including the business and technical architecture, learning strategies, learner experiences and content, and governing principles for use. We have experience in the successful implementation of learning management systems, in the integration of skill/competency systems and learning management systems, and in the definition of evaluation metrics to monitor the success of your overall eLearning program.

Knowledge management
Build an awareness of what you collectively know and use it to improve productivity and quality. Our knowledge engineering specialists can assess the feasibility and potential impact of knowledge reuse on a business area, target and prioritize knowledge management opportunities based on business challenges and needs, elicit information and knowledge needs, and develop a knowledge management plan for action. We can guide your team in creating explicit policies on the use of intellectual assets, institute feedback mechanisms to continually improve knowledge used, and develop metrics to evaluate intellectual capital.