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We Empower our Clients to Excel at Delivering Their Business and Technology Strategy

Whether you're an Executive looking to strengthen your Organization's Strategic Delivery Capabilities or a Business Stakeholder, with tactical Project Objectives; Guide Ring Consulting is The Partner You Need!

YOUR SOLUTION DELIVERY APPROACH CONNECTS YOU TO YOUR CUSTOMERS...

'How' You Deliver Your Strategy Matters

Some Business Runs on Big Ideas with well defined expectations, outcomes and timing - while others are better suited to smaller incremental touch points where flexibility is at a premium

THESE REQUIRE DIFFERENT DELIVERY APPROACHES!

When asked about their Delivery Approach - Many leaders will respond that they employ EITHER Agile or Waterfall, but rarely Both

Strategic Portfolios are not uniform in composition

Chances are you're delivering some of your strategy with an incompatible methodology

Solution Delivery vs Software Development Methodology

Software Development Methodologies, such as Agile or Waterfall, are often conflated with Solution Delivery

Software Development Methodologies are engineering frameworks designed to inform the process of creating, testing and deploying software. In the case of Agile, it also delves deeply into the cadence and scope of your business goals and objectives.

Conversely, the Solution Delivery Process is a whole-of-organization effort that relies on your key partnerships to evaluate Business Objectives, Budget, Timing, Scope etc., for each initiative within your portfolio

Determining methodology for each (i.e., Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban, Extreme Programming, etc.) is a derivative of their assessment based on best fit for Customers, Market Conditions and Culture

What happens when Organizations Emphasize software methods over Enterprise Solution Delivery frameworks?

Check out the tabs above for some real world examples of

Methodology Malpractice

An Ed Tech software company with clients all over the US provides a class room product that teachers and students use everyday. All have a firm grasp of the functionality and also the defects that impact their work

Once a year, the software company fixes about 20 to 30 percent of their defect backlog through a large remediation release

The users are happy with the fixes but struggle to consume them all at once and are somewhat frustrated that no new bugs will be fixed until the following year - this is a clear example where Agile is the better approach

An Insurance company in the Pacific Northwest is required, by their state, to send communication with very specific language to each of its customers - failing to comply with this mandate could jeopardize their license to operate

Each year the state changes that language in the spring and requires the provider to begin communicating it in early fall - the company initiates a project each spring to update their content management system accordingly

This project has very specific timelines and a definitive scope which cannot be negotiated - the work represents all of the classic characteristics of a Waterfall project; yet the organization, in an attempt to transition to Agile, decides one year to manage the work incrementally which jeopardizes their operating license or risk heavy fines

BIG TECH HAS CHANGED THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT CUSTOMERS

When it comes to delivering their Business and Technology Strategy, we see organizations prioritizing internal preferences and capabilities over Customers, Constituents and Business Stakeholders

Unfortunately, this dynamic goes beyond Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., and persists across the culture of many corporate technology landscapes

CHALLENGE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WITH GUIDE RING CONSULTING AS YOUR PARTNER

Prioritize Your Customers
Empower the People you've hired to represent Strategy, Market Presence and The Voice of Your Customer!
Broaden your Solution Delivery Capabilities
Use the Right Methodology
Formulate Strong Business Stakeholder and Technology Partnerships to work on behalf of your Customers in deciding the best approach to Deliver Your Strategy to Market

BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING for The Free Market and Good Government

'How' You Deliver Your Strategy Matters

Strategic Portfolios are not uniform in composition Chances are you're delivering some of your strategy with an incompatible methodology

What happens when Organizations Emphasize software methods over Enterprise Solution Delivery frameworks?

BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING
for The Free Market and Good Government

Strategic Portfolios are not uniform in composition

Chances are you're delivering some of your strategy with an incompatible methodology