Other services
related to placement:
1. HR business process reengineering (Organization
Management, Personnel Administration, Recruiting/Staffing,
Benefits, Time Management, Payroll).
2. Analyze and fix projects. This task is useful whenever
management is uncomfortable and wants to find out what’s
really going on. The key to success is bring in people who
are credible with the developers but also who have a
big-picture view of the project who have the project
manager’s best interests at heart. This task is normally
performed by outsiders.
3. Assess/audit failed projects. This task is also normally
done by outsiders, but the goal in this case is forensic in
nature. Concord
Solutions can bring in true experts in this field.
4. Transition
planning for organizations who want to embrace new
technologies. Most problems when embracing a new technology
are people issues rather than technical issues per se, so
the critical success factors here are to bring in people who are both highly technical, highly
motivational and also business oriented.
5. Wireless &
handheld projects. Having a customer orientation is a
critical success factor. Concord
Solutions can bring in people who can do that for your
organization.
8. Comparative analysis for applications and architecture in
wireless, hand-held systems, switches, software and
programming technologies. This is often better done by
outsiders since it requires a measure of independence.
9. Conflict resolution within client. We can intervene, make
rational recommendations, and generally take the pressure
off management.
10. Play the support-contractor role, particularly when
Client has multiple vendors on a project. The role is an
assistant to the project manager.
11. Due diligence studies prior to investing / acquiring /
merging. Evaluate people, processes and technologies.
12. Design reviews.
13. Code reviews.
14. Mentor key technical personnel.
15. Technical and project-management training. For example,
we have the people who trained significant areas within IBM,
Lexmark, and numerous other companies.
16. Internet consulting: some strategic, some tactical.
