What Bryant & Associates can offer your business.

What can Bryant & Associates offer your business?

At Bryant & Associates, we provide managment advisory and consulting services to help you identify, develop, implement and use information technology to solve your business problems. Investments in information technology must support and enhance your specific business strategy. We understand this principle and work to ensure that your information technology programs and projects support your objectives and yield an adequate return on investment (ROI) to justify their cost.

Bryant & Associates provides management advisory and consulting services that support your need for practical and profitable business solutions. We offer services designed to help you:

Identify and analyze management problems and opportunities related to the use of information technology in your business.

Understand your business processes.

Identify and analyze potential Information Technology solutions to address business problems or opportunities while supporting or enhancing your business processes.

Plan and manage the development and implementation of a specific solution.

These services are designed to augment your staff by providing you with additional manpower to address business issues on a project or simple short term basis. Specifically we offer two types of services:

Management Services - Our management services are designed to help our clients answer the question -- What is the role of information technology in our business?

We help your management team by providing the technical knowledge and experience necessary to provide guidance for the implementation of computer and communications technology. We function like a member of your staff by analyzing your management problems and helping you design solutions geared to your own business situation. Types of support that we can supply include:

Business Plan Development - A business plan is the first step in determining what the appropriate information technology for your business should be. Technology should always be chosen based on the needs of the business. A business plan identifies your business needs -- technology should always support those needs.

Business Strategy Assessment - Business strategy can be driven by any number of factors. Once you have a well formed business strategy, Bryant & Associates can assess your strategy and help you determine how Information Technology can enhance it. Additionally, Information Technology can enable strategic options that are otherwise unavailable. We can help you identify those strategic business opportunities that Information Technology make available.

Business Process Analysis & Design - Typically, business processes are not the result of rational analysis and design but of evolution. Management must understand the core business processes and optimize those processes to minimize cost and maximize customer satisfaction. Bryant & Associates can assist management by providing unbiased business process analysis and design services that document existing processes and vividly point-out problems and opportunities for improvement.

Conducting special management studies on strategic and operational issues, preparing project feasibility studies, developing the Business Case and management recommendations, proposing program and project plans, and providing technical advice and assistance in their implementation.

Reviewing and suggesting improvement of business policies, procedures, systems, methods, and organizational relationships to maximize the business value of your information technology investment.

Project Management Services - Our project management services are designed to help our clients address the question -- How do we develop and implement information technology in our business?

We provide a full range of program and project management services for information technology or systems integration projects. As PMP certified project management professionals, we are members of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and fully support the Project Management Code of Ethics and definition of project management provided by the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Types of support that we can supply include:

Counseling/coaching your project managers on the unique problems of managing information technology projects.

Conducting special project studies, project audits, preparing recommendations, proposing contingency plans and programs, and providing advice and technical assistance in their use.

Project planning services which could include the development of a project charter, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Linear Responsibility Chart (LRC), Precedence Network, Gantt Charts, Administrative Guidelines and project budget and control systems.

Contract project management services under which we would assume full project management responsibility for a specific project.

Project Management Program Implementation - We can help you design and implement a Program/Project Management process for your business. This process would be tailored to the unique requirements of your business - including, your capital planning/budgeting process, your Information Technology project authorization process and your in-house accounting and budgeting systems. Additionally, we can help you establish project policy and procedures and design a customized training plan for your project managers on your specific project management program requirements.