Here are some of the strategy services we provide.

Web Strategic Planning - Setting the direction of your site-crafting a vision and strategy-includes engaging your management, web team and other stakeholders in collaborative activities. We use combinations of focus groups, staff and board interviews, brainstorming sessions and surveys to help define your vision, map out your strategy, and build a plan of action.

eLearning Strategic Planning - We offer our industry experience and technical expertise to wade through the many off-the-shelf software products and service providers touting the benefits of eLearning. Contact us if you would like an objective third party to help you analyze your training/education content, your marketing, and your requirements for e-learning. We can create an RFP for an eLearning provider, or help you review the many unsolicited proposals already on your desk. We can also assist you in creating a project plan for migrating some of your existing education products to alternative delivery and prepare your staff for the change.

Our research methodology was presented at the 2002 ASAE Winter Conference in Washington, DC

Requirements Gathering - Your technology project needs specific and detailed information about your organization, but who on staff has the time to add this important--yet time-consuming--task to their daily responsibilities? Our team is skilled at facilitating clients through a goal-setting and requirements-gathering process, performing market research with members and other customers, and conducting a market scan of available technology options.

RFP Development - Ellipsis Partners is uniquely qualified to help formulate the functional and technical requirements to communicate with your internal MIS group or an external web developer. We employ a variety of techniques to isolate your requirements, and craft those needs into technical specifications. Read testimonials from our clients.

Vendor Selection - If we've helped you construct an RFP-or even if you have created your own--Ellipsis Partners can help you distribute the opportunity to the vendor community and evaluate the responses. Based on your requirements and internal priorities, we build an evaluation matrix and coach you through some of the filtering questions you will want to ask. We can play a behind the scenes role, or serve as an intermediary to your organization, fielding the vendor inquiries and conducting a first-tier review to ensure objectivity.

 

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless,
but planning is indispensable.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower