VELOCITY-TO-VALUE

Inforte's VELOCITY-TO-VALUE® Methodology

Inforte's VELOCITY-TO-VALUE® branded methodology is used to bring our Customer Management strategies and solutions to clients with rapid returns and reduced risk. The VELOCITY-TO-VALUE® branded methodology (which is also sometimes referred to as Inforte's V2V® branded methodology) employs the collective capabilities of our organization and brings five (5) service lines to bear in concert.

Program Management - The competency to govern complex programs of work geared towards large-scale business change or transformation in a manner that will ensure successful delivery and the delivery of success.

Operational Strategy - The competency to translate and extend a company's go-to-market strategy into the functional activities and capabilities that will generate the desired business performance and outcomes.

Process Design - The competency to evaluate existing business processes, prioritize opportunities for improvement, and design future state processes that will manifest strategic capabilities and optimize an enterprise's market and operational performance.

Technology Delivery - The competency to define, design, develop, and deploy technology-based solutions that will correct current state operating issues and enable future state business processes in a risk-free manner.

Organizational Change - The competency to assess the organizational impact of a new strategy or solution and to design and implement interventions to successfully manage and promote the change process within affected stakeholder groups.

Program Management

Plan - Program Planning defines the foundational components and constructs for a Program of work intended to bring success to a business transformation initiative.

Mobilize - Program Mobilization details the specific processes, procedures, and standards of the Program Management Office and fulfills the staffing requirements of the PMO organization.

Govern - Program Governance enforces management policies and procedures of in-scope Program Management functions across program progress, resources, and risk.

Close - Program Closeout brings the Program to successful conclusion by facilitating a smooth transition to business-as-usual operations.

Operational Strategy

Organization - Organization Insight & Alignment clearly defines the solution in expressions of its relationship to and influence on enterprise strategies, objectives, business units, functions, and stakeholders.

Market - Market Insight & Alignment lines up the solution with a qualified and shared view of customers, both in terms of what they value from the organization and their value to the organization.

Economic - Economic Insight & Alignment allows for the solution to be understood in terms of its business case, success criteria, and links to customer and segment profitability.

Solution - Solution Insight & Alignment encourages the solution to be architected in a fashion to pursue high-value opportunities; create fit between activities, architecture, applications, and audiences; and optimize deployment of capabilities over time.

Process Design

Define - Process Definition performs comprehensive study of the existing processes and organizational elements that contribute to the completion of specific units of work across the business operation.

Design - Process Design establishes procedures and standards for the development of future state processes that accurately reflect the desired course of the organization in terms of both efficiency and effectiveness.

Deploy - Process Deployment completes planning and execution of the detailed activities required to implement the new processes and ensure their successful adoption.

Technology Delivery

Define - Solution Definition aligns the targeted solution with the business objectives and future state business processes, as well as generates clarity around the scope and phasing of the solution in terms of specific technical and functional requirements needing fulfillment.

Develop - Solution Development translates the requirements into detailed design specifications and then constructs the individual system components through tasks such as configuration, programming, scripting, report generation, and environment setup.

Test - Solution Testing prepares the desired approaches and documentation to be applied to the solution testing effort and executes multi-level tests, including system, integration, user acceptance and performance tests, where functionality is validated and defects are both isolated and corrected.

Release - Solution Release prepares the organization to take ownership of the post-go-live production system and executes against a pre-defined rollout plan that coordinates the deployment of all solution components, including data, hardware, source code, and training.

Organizational Change

Journey Management - Change Navigation develops the strategic context, confirms the nature and scope of the change, sets the direction, and crafts and executes the change strategy. Organization Performance Measurement establishes the baseline for the initiative, tracks progress against goals, and provides data to support adjustments to the initiative or the change strategy.

Intervention Design - Design of interventions that will reduce the risk and raise the reward on initiative investment. All measures to influence individual and group behavior in organizations can be classified into 1 of only 5 categories: Leadership (how I am led), Communication (how I am informed), Organization Design (how I fit), Performance Enhancement (how I am developed and supported), and Performance Management (how I receive feedback and consequences for my performance).

Organization Development - Organization Development involves the planning and implementation of change in organizational work settings for the purposes of enhancing the personal development of individuals and improving the effectiveness of organizational functioning. By planning and coordinating organization-wide changes, companies seek to enhance organizational performance by improving the quality of the work environment and the attitudes and well-being of employees.