WANT SUCCESS..? LET’S REBRAND..!

Do you want change? Are you bored? Is your business facing new challenges? Let’s Rebrand. But wait!

What Is Rebranding? Many times we have heard the term “Rebranding” but what it actually means? Well, when a company transform its identity such as name or logo or makes some renovation in its packaging or offerings then it is featured as Rebranding.

Why Rebranding is needed? Sometimes it is necessary for a matured and rookie companies to do Rebranding due to various reasons but at the same time, it involves some risks too in terms of their credibility & customers. It sometimes affects old & loyal customers but on the other hand, if we look at the fact that human needs change so to stay in the market on a competitive edge Newbies & Affiliated companies both adopt Rebranding.

Rebranding energizes a business if it’s done in the right way at the right time. It might sound easy but it involves many factors from employees to vendors to customers. They all play an important role in building your brand so the most important thing to keep in mind while doing Rebranding is to preserve the trust of these people. Another foremost risk involved is the waste of expenditure if it’s executed in the wrong way. Whatever the reasons are but Rebranding is surely a big deal.

Let’s Do It… But How?

  1. Groundwork:

Before moving forward there are few facts to be considered. A fore planning your Rebranding you should do the groundwork that why do you need it? Rebrand if it’s facing any of the below mentioned points.

  • Brand Progression
  • Similarity with other brands
  • Losing the target market
  • A new look or advance look of the business
  1. Forecasting:

Brakel-Schutt (Brand Strategist) also advised speaking with your employees, customers and business partners for research. They are the best predictors of what can happen in future after you rebrand and for prophesying you need the help of your Employees, Vendors, Stakeholders & Customers as they can show you the real image & position of your business.

  1. Strategize & Execute:

Here comes the most crucial and the game changer step in your Rebranding process which can either give your business a boost or will make it lose. Firstly you need to form strategies that how are you going to present your brand to your old loyal customers as well as to your new target audience. Secondly, you need to execute tasks to your teams from Marketing to Designing to Copywriting and all others have to play their role in executing this new chapter of the business.

  1. Announcement:

Now comes the judgment day. Revealing the suspense of your product Rebranding. You can opt in different ways to announce. Sending emails to your vendors and customers and tell them about the changes you have made so that they will feel connected. It’s very important to keep your focus on your customers throughout the process as they are the ones who make your brand a hit or a flop.

Investing in Mobile Applications

Did you know that during the year 2017 there were more mobile phone users than PC users all around the globe? Well, that statistic clearly shows our future path. Keeping the growing use of mobile phones in mind, Prescient solutions group inc also provide customer-centric mobile applications. Below we have listed a few of the major reasons why organizations should invest in mobile applications since it is anything but a waste of time or money.

  • Strengthens Communication:

Not only do mobile apps expand the audience list since it has a huge reach, but also strengthen communication. The vendors, employees, team members, and users can all communicate directly through apps within a short span of time thus increasing productivity and producing a better output. The users can share their purchases with friends and family with a simple click thus increasing active engagement of users and leading to the promotion of goods and services. If apps are developed in a manner that is user-friendly, it the organizations can communicate with users about their purchases, delivery, and queries making the organization approachable for users and leaving a lasting impression.

  • Tailored Content Available For Users:

 If apps are developed with sophistication and a lot of thought is put into them, they can lead to massive results for an organization. With apps, you can record every user’s location, preferences, search history and get a good enough idea about his/her interests. All this record can help in developing personalized content for each user that suits one’s interest. If a user opens the app and is greeted with content that is sure to be related to his interest, he won’t ignore it. Who knows he might just go through the updates and make a purchase? Like you or me, all mobile app users love tailor-made content that does not bore them to death. Also, mobile apps should be developed in a manner so anyone who installs and uses it for the first time can choose their preferences and interests. This saved data can filter all the material and show only the updates that match their preferences. Users will not have to go through the hassle to look for something that is according to their liking.

  • Notifications on Apps:

When a user opens an app, he would be greeted with all the notifications and updates he signed up for or might be interested in. That will boost user-app interaction and who does not love all of it served on a silver platter? One click and all the updates as per your liking are on a screen a few inches away from your eyes. The notifications and updates being sent via apps also reduce marketing and advertisement costs for organizations thus allowing them to spend more on areas that require monetary support. Companies save millions each year because of mobile apps allowing swift easy promotions of products and services that also simultaneously increase sales drastically.

An exploration of Project Management office and relationship to project performance

The Project Management Office is a group within a business. It can be a separate department in a time of needs. It helps to maintain the standards of project management within the business or organization. The project management office (PMO) is becoming the central hub of the enterprise. Apart from other tasks, its main task is to directly support the project managers. It is now predicted that in future its focus could also lie on strategic project management. Its vital task is to provide a tool for project portfolio management and resource management. The first and foremost goal of project management is to achieve the benefits through standardizing and by following the project management methods, strategies and also policies. It is now becoming popular as the companies that are connected with PMO are earning a return on investment. Nearly seven out of ten companies now have a PMO. It is responsible for the guidance, documentation, and metrics that are connected practices surrounding the project management and implement the projects within the business organization. This office is responsible to provide accurate reports on the project, project activities, and requirement to executive management as a strategic tool in keeping the implementers and decision makers moving toward consistent business-focused goals and objectives. The enterprise and companies need PMOs when there are many projects that need to be controlled. It helps in the coordination of resources with the different departments, it also help to obtain the current and well founded on which the decision can be made. When the environment is dynamic PMO help to take fast decisions. PMO is responsible to collect and provide precise data as sometimes the requirement might increase as people demand such clear data. It is responsible for controlling the classical project portfolio, it is responsible for training and coaching of project managers as well. PMO maintains the overview of the company projects and know the strategies of the organization and make sure that both go hands in hands. But the specific area of the application may vary from company to company. It is helpful for the company not only to look for the project management but also do side task. It maintains the current employee data especially in term of skills, and allocations. It is helpful in the promotion of information and communication. PMO helps to create a knowledge base with the lesson that needs to be learnt and best practices of past projects so it is ensured that there is no repetition of past errors. PMO is beneficial as it includes a successful project portfolio that is concerned with the available resources and corporate strategy. It is helpful in freeing up the time and energy of the managers and team of the project so that they can focus on the important operational tasks. It optimizes the project efficiency and increases the quality of the project and also minimizes the risk present in the project. The success of PMO is not immediately visible or even measurable but high-functioning PMOs has been confirmed by studies.

Business Transformation- A road map to maximize organizational insights

In today’s world of project management, change and organizational development we often come across the word Business transformation. We are now using this world frequently but have we ever wondered that what exactly Business Transformation is? Why this term is being used so many times? All the transformation requires an owner to rethink that how the enterprise creates the value of today and in future. Today all transformations require us to think big because the incremental improvement is not just enough to win in this disruptive business environment.

Business transformation is an opportunity to define the aim that goes beyond incremental change. It is an opportunity to rethink the business strategy and models to deliver breakthrough value. So Business management is a change in management strategy that has a goal to align people, process and technology initiative of a company more closely to its present business strategy and vision or aim. This will help the business to support, strengthen and innovate new business strategy of a business. Innovation is the key driver of any business or organization. Transformation and change is an issue for many businesses, research shows that 70-80% is a failure rate of the change program.

Many organization undergo such business transformation to cope with changing need of product market. It ultimately helps the bottom line of the organization in improving by increasing the revenue or decreasing expenses or by both. Transformation and change is an issue for many businesses, research shows that 70-80% is a failure rate of the change program. Many organization undergo such business transformation to cope with changing need of product market. It ultimately helps the bottom line of the organization in improving by increasing the revenue or decreasing expenses or by both. The factor that triggers the business transformation can be internal or external. External can be change or new regulations or may be funding sources become unavailable. While in internal factors it includes: business outgrows the management skills or production of products that require marketing. Transformation is a challenging task for many organizations. Strong core internal team and with outside support and expertise will be in a position to strengthen the marketing strategy. The team that is being chosen decides the success of the business transformation. The right people or team will define the achievable roadmap and then they will execute the plan. But it does not mean that team is more important than strategy. No strategy is perfect but if the team is strong, it can adapt to the necessary changes.

After making a strong team it is important to have the right strategic vision. this means to anticipate that what customer wants and how best to achieve it. After that Execution is the hardest part, more than half of companies fail because, although they have the right strategy for the business, but they are not able to execute the plan. A business should take a broad view on the customer demands when a company is embarking on business transformation as customer needs the solution not only a specific product, it needs to be aligned with the customer’s demand- in fact, it needs to anticipate the demands.

Project Management for Newbie’s

project-maangementProject management is a serious business. The reason for using this title is I believe the new entrants to software development don’t realize or take it serious what a serious and stressful job project management is.

The newbie’s these days think that it is a cool job as in the TV series, “the apprentice” where in each episode each project manager is given a single task for a week but that is not the case in reality, the project management is far more adverse and hectic job. It is indeed a tough job, no matter how big or small the project is.

The most important key factors in managing projects are:

  • Evaluating what is done
  • Determining where you are on the way of getting things done.

When the project management was started in the early days, risk wasn’t the issue that was being focused on. Only focus was on time and budget, the job of it was just to deliver what was being asked by the stakeholders. But with the passage of time things have changed radically which is a positive thing and should be acknowledged. The process of risk management is given importance and the project evaluators as well as the stake holders give due importance to this factor.

The most critical and soft skill is understanding the psychology. Projects and most importantly successful projects are all about teams, successful teams make successful projects. And successful team is made by a project manager who very well understands the psychological needs of the members. Understanding the psychology is very important while dealing with the stake holders understanding the needs of the business sponsors.

Here I present an analogy, a lighter one for a better understanding of what project management is,

To understand this analogy let us compare IT with Golf;

There are four factors that are compatible between golf and IT.

  1. It looks simple but believes you me, it is not.
  2. A very little mistake can lead to major problem; an error is the last thing you might want to encounter.
  3. Second guessing others is easy, when it’s in your hands, its easy being an expert with hindsight.
  4. Very difficult thing to do is to sustain a consistent level of performance.

A very important question asked these days is where and how the education should be started these days as there are few industries where the project management  is taken seriously, to name a few, the sectors like banking, aerospace and pharmaceuticals are some. But there are still some smaller or bigger ones where the term project management hasn’t made an impact or the due importance is not given.

The questions arises from where the education should be started, the answer is from the stake holders, they should be made to realize not everything can be handled by the same

Old traditional way where everything was decided in a board room and people followed what was discussed , now every stage needs supervision.

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Consultation Services for Primavera P6

consultingThere is a wide range of consultation services available for primavera p6. Solutions that are most critical to your project are offered.  Consulting while solving some ambiguous problem is a way to minimize the effort and work and go in the right direction while you still have time.

In this article we will provide you with some of the most successful and known consulting services providers related to primavera P6 portfolio management. This would be indeed of great help for companies who are still in deciding phase whether to opt for primavera services or not, whether they will be able to implement them successfully in their organization for their crucial projects. Would it be a source of uplift and progress with making the projects which are critical for their business, a success?

These all questions are definitely answered by consultations service companies.

Few of them are listed below.

CBA: critical business analysis inc.

A short about the company includes, that their history goes back to 30 years. Since then they have been committed to advancement of project and program management expertise.  Decades of real world experiences offering a wide range of professional services in a variety of industries.

CBA inc. is seasoned with professionals that provide you with the best of assistance. Giving you a variety of project management. The services and support is given with the best of knowledge. The expert knowledge comprises of portfolio project management. That is re enforced with real world experiences. Based on skills and aptitude of people involve in your project. The most important thing is their training services for primavera.

The processes they use include:

  • Business process development
  • Software implementation
  • Process documentation
  • Custom training development
  • Report writing

The people involved in consultation services are

CBA has been helping preventing project failures since the past 30 years of their services. A highly recommended one.

EBS:

With more than 12 years of experience, EBS gives integrated services for IT solutions and project management market. Part of the Insynchro group of companies, they have extended their operations across Asia pacific region providing services that range from complex implementations across the world.

Their expertise include oracle and Microsoft stack of project related solutions, services and trainings as well as their very own project centric board room solution also known as IXD.

The IXD is basically designed to serve the neglected project business stakeholders. Supporting large capital intensive projects in oil, gas, utilities, miming, telecommunications, aerospace, and infrastructure, transportation, public and construction sectors.

Their oracle product suite includes:

Their services include:

  • Consultations
  • Planning
  • Integration
  • Earned value management for primavera
  • Upgrade and installation for products.

How things are catered using Primavera P6?

Primavera P6The thing which is of key importance are project planning and management skills using Primavera P6. While dealing with projects of lengthy time span and activities that are larger and are further divided in sub activities.

The key features to this are:

  • Planning
  • Monitoring
  • Budgeting
  • Accomplishing.

The foremost thing in carrying out of these features is scheduling. Whether it is used in planning long term plans or tasks at hand. Scheduling includes services that tell at what time, what task would be carried out. Scheduling has been discussed in a number of previous articles but would be differentiated with project management and planning in this article.

Differentiating project management, planning and scheduling:

It can be easily understood as:

Project management is a system’s approach to planning, scheduling and controlling.

Project management of primavera p6 is a recognized standard for high performance. The projects are high scaled, sophisticated and multifaceted. Projects with unlimited resources are recognized and organized. The number of target plans are large, which in return makes it a vital part in catering projects under primavera P6.

A project managers work include,

  • Balance resource capacity
  • Plan, schedule and control projects
  • Track progress
  • Allocate best resources
  • Monitor, visualize and assess project performance versus plan.
  • Risk analysis
  • Conduct what-if scenarios.
  • Plan alternatives in case of anything went wrong.

Executives will be facing increasingly complex challenges during the next decade these would be the result of escalating salaries, raw materials and competencies between different giant organizations. Which increased union demand, pressure from stake holders, and the possibility of long term high inflation accompanied by mild recession.

All the executives today agree on the point, that the solution to majority of the problems is better control and use of existing corporate resources.

Project management can mean different to different people. It is designed to use the existing resources in a better way.

Let us understand it with an example:

It’s around 5 in the evening and the project needs a design change as well as a front end implementation, within a couple of hours for a persistent client, handling this kind of tasks comes under planning your project where there should be a spot for sudden changes, you check to see who is available, this is done through already scheduled tasks and duties. Well, you have a UX designer but not a single developer who can implement the changes. You have teams in multiple time zones, a model, intended for flexibility and sudden turnarounds like this, so you should have someone available for the tasks.

Figuring out when a developer might be free for some additional work load or sudden task is just one of the many things that you ought to manage.

This takes a good project manager to handle this chaos, good project managers need to be multi-tasking super heroes. Figuring out what need to be planned when and what should be scheduled how, differs all three terms we were discussing in this article.

PSGINCS – REVIEWS, PROS AND CONS

PSGINC has always strived for the best forits customers, bringing them the best solutions for their professional related fields.  PSGINC has a reputation for giving excellence to the customer’s product and collaborating with them to get it to the heights of their professional needs.

The reviews and feedback we got in the previous year has been of great honor for us. This compels us to works more for the mutual greater good, which not only grow us as a company, but also make our customers the best choice for people when selecting from the organizations.

The reviews to be mentioned are

“Great company to work for, with paths of advancement for people who are smart and want to work hard. “

The person giving review has been an anonymous employ at PSGINC. He further adds to his talk.

PROS:

“I have always been treated fairly. In my time at prescient group solutions.I can’t say for anyone else. Compensation has been above average.  The company has been getting many clients in the past few years, which have generated a number of opportunities for junior level staff to move up and run their own specific account .The culture is friendly, the atmosphere is good. The staff is supportive as well as getting your back for things on hand.

Seminars are held by the company every week or few weeks to highlight the changing trends of technology. senior level engineers and technological staff has always been a great support and have our backs in times of hardships or if something is not getting the right way whether they are on the same account or not.

CONS:

By the nature of the business, staff is decentralized with most of them being assigned full time to specific client or client sites.  Thismay result in a negative approach, which is limiting the direct interaction with other senior or junior level staff members. Who are not assigned to the same project as you have been assigned to.

The one advice that need to be given as a loyal member of the enterprise is to focus on managerial stuff when it comes to IT team.

Another member added his experience:

He says:

The pros include, IT OUTSOURCING. The main focus is on growth and customer satisfaction and need identifying as long as I h=have been there. The company has stood through tough times with his employees and has made serious efforts to support all the crew with financial and economical allows. The sense of teamwork you get to witness as well as personally practice is not seen in other organizations. Where IT is simply considered as an overhead expense. The enterprise is a growing organization, which gives you opportunity to get a varied skill set and wider experience that can be had at a large organization.

Cons:

The cons include, like in every organization, sometimes the things don’t work out the way they should mostly when it comes to managerial stuff.

PSGINCS.COM – A HOME FOR BEST SOLUTIONS

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We address complex system of system challenges through tools , techniques and knowledge based system thinking while also recognizing that future systems require new thinking in complex domains such as cyber security, health care , data analytics, banking, transportation , government and aerospace.

oracle’s primavera portfolio solution is robust, easy to manage.

it’s key features include:

1. flexible user interface

2. team member interfaces for stating work

3. streamlined enterprise reporting

4. integrated risk management

5. resource management and optimization of views

6. workflow engine to automate business processes

the key benefits include:

1. unite project teams and stakeholders through collaboration and strong feedback methods

2. reduce the risk of costs and schedule overruns

3. optimize management of all resources

4. monitor and visualize project performance vs plans

5. confidently make and keep project commitments.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT – MATCHING PEOPLE WITH PROJECTS:

Support both top down and bottom up resource request and staffing processes . primavera P6 EPPM makes it a lot easier for projects and resource managers to communicate their requirements and decision throughout a project’s life cycle. By providing a graphical analysis of resource and role utilization . PRIMAVERA P6 EPPM helps project team manages resources in dynamic environments.

This allows managers to see where resources are being used across all programs and projects as well as their forecasted future use . because all information is located is localized and centralized system. resource conflicts become apparent to project and resource managers , eliminating un expected delays and unforeseen resource limitations . in result of this, there is greater visibility into resource demand and capacity means maximized resource use.

BUISNESS VALUE:

Oracle’s primavera P6 ENTERPRISE PORTFOLIO ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION helps organizations complete projects on time and with in budget by enabling them to prioritize plan, manage and evaluate projects, programs and portfolios across the enterprise.

ENSURE PROJECT DELIVERY SUCCESS FOR ALL YOUR PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS:

Primavera P6 EPPM is an integrated portfolio management application that includes role based functionality to match each team members’s needs and responsibilities. It provides executives with a real time view of their

organization’s project performance equips project participants with the right blend of usability , power and flexibility to effectively execute projects and enable workers across all levels of organization to analyze, record and communicate reliable information and make timely decisions.

primavera P6 EPPM can easily scale from a single user on a small project to tens of thousands of users engaged in millions of activities across hundreds of projects . the solution is built on a robust and proven standards based java architecture and is designed to deliver high performance with tight security , flexible integration and real time reporting including the analytics.

PORTFOLIO AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT – PRIORITIZING PROJECTS AND OPTIMIZING ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY: 

With primavera P6 EPPM project managers can be confident that their projects and programs are aligned with company’s strategic goals and objectives that are in line.

by providing a consistent overview and analysis of the portfolio and program as projects are added and removed , this module enables project managers to manage incoming demand and select just the right balance.

Primavera Consultation Services

It is the most powerful, robust, and easy to use solution for globally prioritizing, planning, managing and executing projects, programs and portfolios. Primavera P6 is an integrated project portfolio management (PPM) solution comprising role-specific functionality to satisfy each team member’s needs, responsibilities and skills. It provides a single solution for managing projects of any size, adapts to various levels of complexities within a project, and intelligently scales to meet the needs of various roles, functions, or skill levels in your organization.

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Primavera P6 provides executives with a real-time view of their organizations project, program and portfolio performance. It equips managers with the right blend of usability, power and flexibility to effectively and efficiently execute on projects, and enables individuals across all levels of an organization to analyze, record, and communicate reliable information and make timely informed decisions.

KEY BUSINESS BENEFITS

• Select the right strategic mix of projects

• Assure project, IT and corporate governance

• Enhance processes and methods

• Improve project team collaboration

• Measure progress toward objectives

• Complete more projects successfully and with the intended payback.

There are a number of consulting and implementation services provided by oracle Primavera P6 and it’s partners. They have a number of advertisers that help them with these services.

The list of these partners and advertisers are as follows:

1.Keen science pty limited

2.Insynchro group of industries

3.prescience technology

Keen Science Pty Ltd is a specialist portfolio, program and project management services provider. We operate in Australia, as well as internationally. We help our clients achieve their strategic goals through the combination of expert project management practices and industry recognised project management solutions. We deliver services and solutions that provide transparency and control over all aspects of the project delivery process.

With a strong focus on best practise, we have recognised the benefits of integrating technologies to strengthen the program and project governance structures and to deliver productivity benefits.

We advocate the application of fully integrated project management tools to deliver total project controls solution and provide the client organisation with auditable and evidence based information to ensure their projects are delivered on time, on budget and within the specified scope. Our approach of fully integrated systems increase the visibility of performance trends and provide early warning indicators, as well as delivering tailored reporting to meet the client requirements.

Our consulting team can design, develop and implement these multidimensional control systems, as well as provide the expertise to operate them.

IGC:

Insynchro has more than 15 years of experience in designing, implementing and supporting highly effective integrated project controls solutions.

Our clients represent most industry sectors as well as government, and the solutions we have implemented range from controls for a single-project through to enterprise-wide systems for project intensive multinational organizations.

Our offering combines industry expertise with precise implementation skills which enables us to develop functional solutions that help our clients realize the full potential of each project, and simplify the process of maintaining control over multiple projects.

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