Are you puzzled by all the e-Business solutions available today and how they can benefit your business? What you really need is a strategy - a road map for successfully implementing your e-Business objectives that are in sync with your company's business goals. Even if you have formulated a strategy, this workshop can help you assess its strengths and pitfalls.

Strategy Workshops
Notunseen uses a three dimensional methodology for conducting strategy workshops to assist you in exploring your strategic and operational objectives. The e-strategy workshop is designed to help you figure out where to start and what to build. We evaluate your critical business processes and organizational structures. The workshop will help define your vision of your e-Business objectives and then translate them into a roadmap for implementation.

In this workshop, we examine your organizational or project goals, your audiences, marketplace, competitive environment and a variety of other factors to identify the best opportunities and create a plan for developing the best solution. We benchmark best practices across industries to help you leverage what others have already successfully implemented. We also examine your competitor's e-commerce and e-Business efforts to perform a strategic comparison. The strategy can be used to scope ideas into manageable projects that can be implemented immediately. Finally, we prioritise opportunities, create a program plan, a business case, and set-up a roadmap to move forward with definition, design, and implementation.

Commitment and participation of the client's key internal players is a must to obtain meaningful results from this workshop. Notunseen brings together a diverse team of multidisciplinary experts -- e-Business strategists, business process analysts, e-Business solution designers, Internet infrastructure experts, network, systems and security architects to help define a strategy for success.

Goals of an e-Strategy Workshop
Understand the existing environment
Identify the business needs and drivers
Clarify both short and long term objectives
Discuss various business and tech alternatives
Strategy alignment and recommendations

Pre-Workshop Preparation
Identify participants from your organization
Identify participants from Notunseen
Communicate goals of the workshop to all participants
Discovery phase: gather documentation from client on the current environment
Develop strategy workshop agenda

The Discovery Phase
Evaluates your readiness for an e-Business solution by assessing:
Level of tech skills available
Attitudes and mindset of business and IT management
Willingness to adopt new technology
Client's willingness to accept risk

Understanding the Business Drivers
Technology is seldom desired for its own sake. It is imperative to recognize that the critical business issues should drive the tech solutions and not vice versa. The forces that drive a business are very important to understand in designing e-Business solutions. To additionally refine your requirements we assist our clients to define how an e-Business solution will...

Increase revenue
Lower operating costs
Enhance the image of the company
Allow you to reach new markets or get your products faster to market
Make you more competitive
Reduce development cycles
Improve customer relationships and customer service
Improve your various channel relationships
Improve inventory or procurement management
Make your employees more effective and efficient

These workshops can be conducted on a project, departmental or organizational basis.

The duration of the workshop is dependent on the level chosen and the complexities of the client issues. You'll come out of our Strategy Workshop with direction, clarity, and focus. After conducting the workshop, recommendations about strategy, e-Business infrastructure, application and functional requirements, business rules, priorities and success measurement metrics can be determine.