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Business Technology Advisory Services

Kono’s senior consultants provide seasoned experience for your planning and assessment initiatives. Rather than spending time educating your consulting team on the basics of your business (and experiencing a trial and error process during project execution), Kono’s multiple years of experience allow for rapid analysis of your most complex business issues. Our project experience and established methodologies streamline the completion of deliverables tailored to your specific requirements. While our assistance can be tailored to your situation, our established service offerings include:

Information Technology Planning

Companies planning for significant investment in technology, particularly if investment in several areas simultaneously is being considered, can greatly benefit from this proactive planning. The primary deliverable of Information Technology Planning is synthesizing strategic business goals from across the enterprise into a cohesive strategy for information technology infrastructure, integrated business applications and human resources.

Business Technology Assessment

If you are unsure whether maximum benefit from your previous and ongoing technology-related expenditures is being realized, our Business Technology Assessment will provide you with an expert independent evaluation. Assessment of costs, flexibility, standard technologies, control environment and roles can all be addressed.

"Fast Track" Solution Selection

Focusing on strategic considerations, industry best practices and competitive differentiators, Kono’s “Fast Track” approach to product selection can determine a short list of candidate solutions much more rapidly and effectively than the traditional Request For Proposal (RFP) process. Our solution selection services also provide the expertise necessary to assess gaps between business process and potential solutions and to assist with building business cases for expenditures.

Although Kono specializes in the implementation of specific products, we provide guidance during our Business Technology Advisory Services (BTAS) engagements that is strictly product independent. During BTAS engagements, we leverage our team’s collective experience with multiple technologies, products and industries to offer business-based recommendations rather than solutions specific to products we support.

Though we provide product independent advice, our product knowledge benefits our clients during analysis and assessment projects in several ways:

Our consultants are able to draw upon detailed product knowledge rather than a vague or out-of-date understanding of product functionality and competitiveness.
In many cases, one of the leading mid-market products will provide the most competitive solution to given business requirements. Because we work closely with these products, we are positioned in these situations to apply the knowledge gained during a planning and assessment engagement directly to a solution implementation. This efficiency provides benefits to clients and reduces duplicate work that may result when non-product specific consultants are utilized for analysis.