Data • Knowledge • Wisdom

Our clients understand the accumulation of facts is data. The ability to comprehend information is knowledge. The skill to apply knowledge to achieve optimum solutions or recombine to innovate and create something new is wisdom.

COMMON QUESTIONS

When is the right time to bring in a consultant?

A Few signs that a consultant can be beneficial:
  • Project estimates are consistently not accurate
  • Implementing change fails, takes too long, or does not stick
  • IT is not meeting the needs of the business
  • There is high turnover and low employee engagement
  • The company gets sued a lot
  • Sales have been slipping, despite efforts
  • The company suffers from negative PR
  • There is a crisis of ethics, integrity, transparency, and honor
  • The business is not achieving its goals
  • The company struggles with being competitive, innovative, diverse, and sustainable

What can we expect from a business and IT consultant?

Program Design Solutions match your goals and objectives with an expert in that field.

Our consultants have Masters and PhDs, are former executives, and successful business owners, with years of experience in the industries of government, military, banking, retail, automotive, finance, manufacturing, science, engineering, IT, service, hospitality, food & beverages, and others.

We take the long view. We partner with you. Your success is our success.

How do we measure success, after bringing a consultant onboard?

Success looks different, depending on the size and scope of the project. However, in general, a project is a short undertaking with a defined start and end date for the purpose of developing a unique product or service.

With Program Design Solutions, a realistic project is successful when it completes the scope of a project within predefined time, budget, quality, and resources.

The benefits of an outside consultant are new innovative perspectives, no limiting mindsets, expertise, efficiency, cost effectiveness, and increases in key performance indicators.

How do we handle proprietary information and customer privacy with consultants?

Program Design Solutions handles our clients’ proprietary information and customer data with the strictest of confidentiality.

Through our non-disclosure agreement (NDA) and non-compete clause, we will never disclose, share, sell, nor use client information without expressed permission from our clients.

We only use information to the extent of executing the client’s project.

How long does it take for a consultant to complete a project?

Each project takes the time it needs to fulfil its scope. As a result, every project duration is different.

Therefore, the time to complete a project depends on the complexity of scope, number of deliverables, availability of resources, project-relevant access, level of quality/precision, depth of the needs-assessment/analysis, client’s current environment/climate/culture, and any regulatory, contractual, legal or industry constraints.

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION

It is important to understand the past, to be successful in the future. Data is useless without context. However, Information is not helpful without communication and support. Information, communication, and relationships are the keys to successful businesses.

When leaders understand the importance of business intelligence, social intelligence, diversity, empowerment, organizational synergy, risk, change, and relationship management, they have the power to inspire associates to be creative and innovative.

Knowledge is the Light That
Cuts the Darkness of Failure
We Make Futures Brighter

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