Systems Alignment and Consolidation. The THF IT consulting team has significant experience with systems alignment and consolidation. We have built our relationships with our State Agency clients based on our proven ability to effectively and efficiently provide IT services. The It services performed included assessments and recommendations for effectiveness and efficiency and gap analyses for the assessment of System alignment and consolidation. Our team includes not only CPA certifications but also the following certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP); Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Certified Information Technology Professional (CITP), and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). CITP is an information technology credential sanctioned by the AICPA. With the technology background as a CITP, a CISA, and experience as a CPA, our team establishes trust between our clients' operational managers and IT departments to achieve both teams’ objectives by utilizing technology to help increase profits and efficiencies. CISA is sponsored by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA). The CISA designation was created for professionals with work experience in information systems auditing, control, or security. The CISA designation is the internationally known standard of achievement for those who audit, control, monitor, and assess an organization’s information technology and business systems. Our team’s specialization is within the governmental, not-for-profit, and information technology industries, and our products and services are designed specifically for those clients. Our team is well qualified to provide the technical testing services with over 15 years of information security and information technology experience. Our team has performed numerous SOC audits, readiness audits, and compliance testing. Our professionals have expertise implementing IT assessments, as well as, auditing and testing financial services controls at companies ranging in size from small organizations to large governmental agencies. Our focus and extensive experience in regulatory requirements gives us a deep understanding of the controls required for an organization to become compliant. There are strict and specific reporting standards when it comes to IT assessment engagements related to Florida governmental entities under Florida Statute 282.318. Our team has exceptional training and extensive experience identifying existing or potential vulnerabilities in State organizations. We’l...
Systems Alignment and Consolidation. BerryDunn has a long history of helping clients through system transitions. We have found that the most successful journeys involve four key attributes: the client needs to execute with consistency, redesign their processes, lead their people through change, and have the knowledge to realize their vision. Our approach focuses on helping our clients apply these four key areas throughout the process of achieving their milestones. We do this by bringing PMI® best practices for a deliberately run project, lean six sigma techniques to rethink processes, Prosci® change management approaches to help your people adapt to change, and more than 30 years of industry experience. This complements your team’s abilities to help you succeed in your journey and achieve a successful implementation and adoption.
Systems Alignment and Consolidation. HMA embraces a change management philosophy reflecting and mitigating the discomfort that functional realignment or consolidation can bring to employees and other stakeholders. Our process is designed to incorporate diverse viewpoints and position the project for success by building buy-in at all levels through involvement. Our team will include consultants who have functioned in roles similar to those of the teams undergoing change. We will be able to effectively emphasize the impact on end users and day-to-day operations. Depending on the specific situation, HMA is likely to perform some or all of the following activities: Clarify potential organizational goals for service alignment and strategic priorities Perform a comprehensive assessment and mapping of current processes and systems through document review and obtaining stakeholder input through interviews, functional area focus groups, and, if relevant, input from external stakeholders such as consumers Identify reconfiguration or consolidation opportunities to meet project goals and address opportunities and challenges identified, in consultation with departmental leadership Conduct design sessions to explore reconfiguration or consolidation opportunities focusing on the relative degrees to which potential options meet project and organizational objectives Identify key operational activities required for implementation that may include: o Personnel: recruitment, reorganization, workflow redesign, training, policies and operating procedures o Regulatory: required approvals, potential regulatory changes o Information systems: reconfiguration, implementation, data management, user interface reconfiguration, reporting design and testing o Financial: short- and long-term capital and other financial investment required, overall ongoing budgetary impact, return on investment o Communications: internal change management, external filings, external communication to consumers, vendors, and others Work with the state’s teams to map, reconfigure, and document realigned or consolidated process flows as a basis for designing employee training Develop an implementation plan for key activities and a framework to measure successful implementation and evaluate ongoing results, including a timetable with key milestones and responsibilities, scenario planning, project evaluation methodology and timing, and ongoing operational metrics Typically, systems alignment and consolidation projects result in the im...
Systems Alignment and Consolidation. Large-scale systems are critical to the delivery of essential services; even small issues, inefficiencies, large footprints, security concerns, and misalignment can have major impacts on the public and public trust. Our extensive experience includes the aligning and consolidation of both IT and technical resources as well as general program operations (service delivery “systems”), and we have a developed a proven framework to assess and align both that centers on transference, stabilization, transformation and optimization. More specifically, we focus clearly on planning, including the identification of benchmarks, risks, precise requirements, meticulous project management, and a proven implementation approach. In general, our proven method for this type of projects includes: Create Key Project Management Structures – In addition to our proven project methodology, which in this case can either be PMI or Agile, depending, we cannot — for projects that involve systems alignment and/or consolidation — stress enough the critical role of coordination and communication between agencies and/or staff as well as the development of a governance group. We will develop the framework for these components during the initial phases of a project. Review Current State (“As Is” Assessment) – We evaluate, document and map current processes (see simple example at right) and systems to gain a thorough understanding of current practices. This can include interviews/focus groups and review of application architecture, environments, practices, processes, policies, stakeholders and external partners to produce a singular collection of critical data points to assess against best practices and lessons learned. We will review challenges, inefficiencies, and misalignment in the way the current systems are intended to function and communicate with each other around shared customers.
Systems Alignment and Consolidation. MAXIMUS often works with state SMEs to model current (As-Is) and future (To-Be) business processes and develop a plan that consolidates disparate processes and systems and aligns them with resources to improve performance and/or accountability. This enables an organization to maximize both human resources and information technology, improve quality of customer service, improve performance on the federal and/or state incentive measures, and ultimately reduce costs. MAXIMUS has conducted feasibility studies across various functional areas (for example, MMIS, CSE, WIC EBT) for multiple states to determine the best path forward for consolidating systems and aligning enterprise-wide technology with business practices. For example, our CSE Practice assisted New Jersey, Delaware, and Oregon in preparing all facets of their child support system feasibility studies, each was approved by OCSE.
Systems Alignment and Consolidation. Meridian offers system alignment and consolidation services to help create efficiencies. These efficiencies can dramatically help clients save money and time. Meridian’s team of experts utilize the proven Meridian methodology, templates, and tools to provide a mature framework for success. ▪ Understand the requirements, goals, and benefits ▪ Craft a customized plan and approach o Plan o Understand gaps o Identify and plan for risks o Communicate ▪ Execute and Measure ▪ Realize The goals of alignment often include standardized processes, increased security, additional functionality, simplified support and maintenance, reduced technical complexity, and cost savings. The technical consolidation is often the most straight-forward component of the engagement. Meridian also ensures that key personnel concerns are addressed, including the perception of the consolidation and end user support / training.
Systems Alignment and Consolidation. Much of WRMA's work focuses on working with state and federal agencies to evaluate a program, develop recommendations, and implement system transformation efforts to improve program effectiveness. WRMA's Louisiana Staff Modernization Project helped transform an entire range of statewide programs for the Louisiana Department of Children & Family Services (DCFS) when it reorganized to enhance and integrate delivery of health and human services. XXXX provided a range of support, including consulting on the overall strategy for aligning and consolidating 67 parish offices to 38, as well as replacing 13 existing legacy IT systems with a new integrated system, providing project management, and supporting an extensive business process re-engineering effort. During the transformation, WRMA provided ongoing Wellness Research Monitoring Analytics coaching to state executives to help them maintain communication with stakeholders and staff, training on the new processes and systems for staff, and helped staff adjust to new roles and responsibilities. Table 9 presents additional examples of WRMA's work in this area.
Systems Alignment and Consolidation. Our approach to providing systems alignment and consolidation services uses a business process-driven approach to ensure systems align with business processes and to identify duplicated, similar and related business processes. Our approach is to conceptualize one or more business process models from multiple parts of an organization or across organizations. We then elaborate the business models creating an inventory of business processes with a mapping to systems. As needed, we further decompose business processes and depict them in industry standard business modeling languages (e.g., BPMN). Next is a process of merging business processes where we find like and related processes identifying opportunities for consolidation and alignment followed by a validation process to confirm merged and aligned business processes are correct. The results of business process consolidation and alignment are then applied to systems addressing system specific technology, data and security considerations. We perform ongoing maintenance of the business processes and their alignment to periodically refresh alignment and identify consolidation opportunities. In delivering systems alignment and consolidation services, we focus on using the following techniques: § Business Process Analysis – we have a large number of expert resources that are part of North Highland’s Process and Business Analysis capability with deep skills leveraging assets and tools providing ongoing development in business analysis processes. Our resources are able to learn and document current business processes including elaboration to an appropriate level of detail to define to-be business processes. Our experts produce business process models in industry standard notations including business process model notation (BPMN). Analysis and use of business process modeled solutions not only aids in identifying consolidation and alignment opportunities, it also accelerates implementation of system consolidation and alignment. § Business Process Reference Models – we have deep experience in the business processes of many of the State of Florida’s public service domains (e.g. health and human services, transportation, public safety, environment protection, financial management). For example, in the area of human services we have built and customized business process models and business process inventories that define and provide structure to understanding opportunities for system consolidation and alignment. We lev...
Systems Alignment and Consolidation. The challenges inherent in supporting rapidly changing business processes and leveraging successful software solutions in a dynamic environment with constrained budgets, especially in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, will result in agency budgets being tighter than ever. Our approach to systems alignment and consolidation begins with identifying drivers of change and the results to be delivered. We surface these through stakeholder workshops and strategy review. We then use enterprise architecture practices to identify system capability gaps. Our technology experts propose options to consider filling those gaps, which informs the development of a target systems archi- tecture and roadmap. Our thorough assessments provide a line of sight from future performance goals to business functions to sup- porting systems and infrastructure. We have learned it is vital to incorporate mission-savvy analysts within the process to avoid errors that stem from relying solely on DocuSign Envelope ID: 5BF1998C-9A9A-4602-8351-F41AFE760225 technology-heavy analysts. We view this process as part of a larger suite of applied practices we call the ICF Digital Services Center (DSC). The DSC provides a repeatable approach to address governance, collaboration platforms, enterprise architecture, technology roadmaps, application/ portfolio rationalization, frameworks, templates, industry best practices, technology standards, and tangible assets in the form of product accelerators that help our clients maximize investments, reduce costs, ensure repeatability of solutions, and accelerate solution delivery for user and stakeholder needs.
Systems Alignment and Consolidation. Through our integrated approach, supported by professional consolidation services, Department will be able to improve its services and added value level to the Department clients with global analyses of their wealth, advanced portfolio management features and other related services such as: • can be delivered via regular reporting and/or online through a powerful web interface. • Further services can be delivered to build a scalable and tailor-made solution with: • Risk assessment (client profiling), risk monitoring (portfolio level), risk reporting • Risk modeling, portfolio optimization, risk attribution • Valuation of assets such as Private Equity, illiquid assets or Real Estate • Wealth structuring (tax, products…) & wealth engineering • Art & Finance services like collection management, lending programs and portfolio optimization services • Tax reporting services • Further services dedicated to Family Offices Our capabilities as a global service provider with its multidisciplinary competencies aim to deliver this service worldwide enabling the Department to concentrate on the delivery of other or new services/activities. We developed this step-by-step allowing us to select services and build a solution fitting the Department needs Our Staffing Resource Assessment (SRA) approach considers business goals, organizational structure, future staffing needs, contracts, and other elements to find the Right Match. Candidate Discovery is the next critical step in the process. Using our extensive industry resources, including both active and passive channels, we identify and attract the top candidates for the Department. We also utilize our proven and per their requirements. In the process, TSCTI has come to be considered a trusted partner by many diverse organizations. Hence, we would be able to collaborate with the Department and provide Systems Alignment and Consolidation services with the right mix of highly qualified resources along with TSCTI’s extensive Local, State and Federal experience. TSCTI’s Grants Management staff has a wealth of experience in applying for and managing federal programs, state projects, and competitive grants. Our staff works closely with educators and administrators to take their ideas and refine them into compliant, approvable grant projects that are easy to track and manage through accounting software. Resources Associates takes a unique approach to grant management. We carefully analyze organizational policies, procedures, and p...
