Dan Woods consults with IT departments at organizations of all sizes about solving problems such as:
Dan’s speaking engagements weave together Early Adopter research missions and product profiles, focusing on topics and issues relevant to the audience at hand. Research missions identify crucial problems, investigate how to solve them, and examine use cases to determine the required capabilities. Product profiles explain the menu of capabilities that products offer and the approach behind them.
Dan’s speeches give people a deeper understanding and suggest tangible actions to help improve their technology and business landscape.
While assessing the current state, Dan gathers ideas from everyone involved. A review of the current state surfaces a lively discussion of what is really happening with current technology. Dan delivers a write-up that offers a common understanding of all perspectives.
In the design of the future state, an architecture to meet the business goals is proposed, reviewed, and refined. In this stage, the tradeoffs between conflicting points of view about the right solution are brought to the surface and resolved. Everyone doesn’t get their way, but everyone is heard, and all worries about potential problems are recorded.
During the implementation stage, plans are made for a phased approach to creating the future state. During this stage, alternative methods of implementation are evaluated, RFPs are created, and execution of the plan begins.
