The Normandy Group can provide Certified Management Consultants (CMC™) with years of real-world experience enabling our clients to eliminate inefficiencies and improve their business processes. We have extensive experience with all the leading systems and conduct ongoing research on emerging solutions. In order to define your requirements explicitly, focusing on unique and critical items, we supplement the needs you've already identified with our own comprehensive industry-specific research. Then we prioritize these requirements with your own team.

A typical software selection project includes the following phases:

Phase One - Analysis

• Scope meeting to discuss critical success factors, measurements of success...
• Staff interviews to understand existing requirements, problems, opportunities for improvement, and business process
• Scope Report that includes Critical Success Factors, major problems, opportunities for improvement, key requirements, scope and schedule
• Requirements Report based on our requirements analysis and input from scope meeting and interviews focusing on key/unique requirements defined unambiguously
• Requirements meeting to confirm requirements and their priority.
• Request For Proposal prepared.

Phase Two - Selection

• Identification of potential vendors
• Request for Proposal issued
• Preliminary analysis of potential vendors includes costs, scoring of their responses, underlying technology...
• Demonstrations of short listed vendors
• References called
• Proof of concept - demonstration based on day-in-the-life script that we prepare
• Contract negotiations

The framework used for software selection will vary slightly depending on the type of software being selected. The greater the risk in making the wrong selection, the more effort that should be taken. You might want to consider engaging a consulting firm that offers a selection methodology to assist you in making your decision. Is there value for your organization to have someone who can assist you to make an educated decision? A word of caution, beware any consultant who says they can or will make a decision for you. A reputable consulting firm will assist you to make a decision not make it for you. After all it will be you who have to live with this decision after the consultant finishes the project.

The Normandy Group has the business expertise, experience, and technological skills required to enable our clients to make an educated decision.

The Normandy Group professionals are seasoned executives and managers recruited from a variety of industries and business disciplines. They know your industry, and they approach every client engagement with a fresh set of eyes. They make a promise to every client to deliver unique, customized business solutions that enables a company set industry standards, rather than succumb to economic tides and fleeting trends.