Why
IHL/C-CORE?
Quite simply, speed and experience. When you deal with IHL/C-CORE you
are dealing with a core group of experts with over 100 combined years
of Research and Implementations. When you use one of the large consulting
outfits you are generally receiving the low level experienced personnel
in the engagement or paying exhorbitant fees for the principals and a
delayed project timeframe. With IHL/C-CORE - you get both the speed to
market and the experience of many installations and vendor selections.
Finally, utilizing IHL's Retail Technology Database, we are quickly able
to find multiple references for each vendor (not just the references they
hand select). Together, IHL/C-CORE can provide an unmatched solution of
technology insight, contacts, and selection/implementation.
Will
the toolkit work effectively with my existing project methodology?
The Toolkit is content rich and designed to be quickly aligned with project
management best practices. The Toolkit focuses on jump-starting the requirements
definition and vendor evaluation and provides Microsoft office compatible
based templates easily converted to a retailers templates and methodology
to launch the project quickly while leveraging the project disciplines
that retailers have developed in their IT organizations.
Why
would I need to use the toolkit? I have a strong IT organization.
Vendors and Retailers have both expressed concerns over the challenges
of starting a project such as a WFM implementation. Many of the resources
responsible for the current platform support have been promoted, or moved
to other organizations. Typically, retailers have not placed much value
in creating and updating process and requirements repositories. The RAPID
PROJECT TOOLKIT provides the mechanism to jump-start the process and move
through business requirement definition and vendor selection quickly.
Why
would I not use the ARTS RFP instead of this toolkit?
The Rapid Toolkit includes the ARTS RFP Framework but takes the process
to a much deeper level than just the business requirements and an RFP
template. It provides tools and templates for due diligence around the
vendor evaluation and scoring process required today due to SOX. It also
includes training requirements estimates, deployment plans, testing plans
and risk management templates. Finally, the RAPID PROJECT TOOLKIT also
provides a user adjusted weighting system so that the retailers can present
the RFP according to the most important needs of the retailer. In other
words, it allows the retailer to direct the RFP towards how they operate
rather than a standard industry document only.
How
much help will I need to use this toolkit?
We estimate that the skills transfer can take place in 10 full productive
days, including customizing the information for the retailer's business,
depending on the complexity of the retail operation.
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