This is a specialized corporation for IT consulting. I have about 40 years in experience in IT management and consulting working for other corporations.  I decided to make my own consulting corporation and use my experience to focus on process improvements.

 

The first pillar of a successful improvement project is to fully understand the starting environment. This can take a significant amount of time, if not well documented already. But without this pillar, the rest of the project will probably fail or need to be continually modified and reviewed as problems. If you don't fully understand where you are improving from, it's difficult to improve.

 

The second pillar is to know where you want to be. And in a realistic fashion. You need to make sure it is doable and when done, is actually what the company needs. Make sure it actually will help. Make sure it is not just a good working process or app that really does not do anything for the company.

 

The third pillar is to develop a realistic solution. This is probably the easiest part if the first 2 pillars are done well. It may, however be the most expensive.

 

The final pillar is to measure how well the project accomplished its goals and where it can be improved. Once again, if pillar 1 and 2 were done well there will be few problems. If they were not done well, this is where you find out that what you designed is not really what you want. But you are so far into the project, all you can do is modify it to gain some semblance of success.

 

Spending a little more time on pillar 1 & 2 will save countless iterations fixing and modifying the solution. The project will get done in the first iteration. You’ll be able to see it when you measure the results. The next project will be another improvement project instead of trying to make this one work.