Blueprint Starter Guide in Business & Roadmap Consulting

This Blog brings on to light the step by step Blueprint guide procedure and guidelines during the Business Consulting and Road-mapping Consulting assignment. This is followed by the Templatized steps of this blueprint guide activity list in details with the process flow and templates of the Business Consulting document. Mentioned below is the starter guide how to go about doing the Business Consulting assignment

a)      Introduction to Consulting Projects

To kick start the Consulting project there should be clear understanding of the business goals and intentions of the consulting assignment. Underline the Strategic pain points of the Customer. Emphasize with agreement with Customer between what can be delivered and what cannot part of the Consulting assignment

                           i.            Introduction & Purpose

                         ii.            Problem Context and Objectives

                       iii.            In- Scope  and Out of Scope

b)      Framework- IT Strategic Initiatives: Consulting Methodology

Have laid down a four steps guideline framework which can be used across domains, products and technologies for any consulting assignment. This can vary based on customer’s requirements on case to case basis.

                           i.            Assessment Phase

                         ii.            Investigation Phase

                       iii.            Modeling Phase

                       iv.            Roadmap Phase

c)      Due Diligence - Input to Output Workflow steps

Due- Diligence is a must in consulting assignment with all major tasks listed for each section of the framework. This is followed by a Workflow model with Input and Output Parameter based on Tools and Methodologies for each model of the Framework. Immediately followed are some of the templates in capturing requirements from the customer.

                           i.            Assessment needs

                         ii.            Investigation needs

                       iii.            Process Modeling needs

                       iv.            Roadmap & next steps ahead

d)      Final Service Provider Consulting Framework

This is one pager pictorial view of different stages of the Consulting Framework. This slide will be very useful part of Thought Leadership Initiatives to showcase the Differentiators in Consulting space to win large Transformational deals.

e)      Summary – Tasks and Deliverables

Finally this section highlights on list of tasks and deliverables on each stages of the Consulting framework. This section also brings to notice the month of delivery of each task based framework to complete the final Consulting engagement.