We have significant skills and experience in the areas of business, acquisition and technology planning that are incorporated in our Solutions For Management practice and in our Solutions For Business practice.

Strategic Planning – helping our clients develop market-based plans for their products, services and capabilities including competitive assessments and channel distribution strategies.

Technology Planning – helping our clients develop 1 and 3 year technology plans for their organization based on the requirements of the organization as developed thru the Meritide Blueprint methodology.

Systems Planning – helping our clients develop detailed roadmaps of their existing and missing business systems – based on business need, business strategy and technology planning.

We have a variety of competency and solutions that involve the Enterprise Resources Management Infrastructure of a company.  Our consultants work with and have knowledge of best practices in how to apply ERP technology to the business process of business.  We specialize in Manufacturing and Distribution businesses -- but have applied this capability to the higher education marketplace, county and city governments, not-for-profit associations and insurance companies.

We have a variety of competency and solutions that touch customer strategies, customer information and how to leverage the information that sometimes exists but which is not useful in many organizations.

Customer Demand Chain – develop and assess the customer demand chain strategy of an organization to improve distribution channel productivity, direct sales results, customer service and information about customer history and trends. Includes direct marketing strategy and tactics for improving prospecting and pipeline management.

Customer Relationship Management – develop and implement business process and technology/systems to provide meaningful automated support to customer contact information, customer pipeline management, customer contact strategy and demand creation activities, customer metrics and integration to accounting systems.

Customer Web Strategy – develop and implement web strategy for the acquisition, support and service of customer functions for an organization.

Customer Order Entry – develop and implement customer order entry strategies to maximize the accuracy and scope of customer order entry capabilities for direct customers, vendors and distributors.

We have a variety of competency and solutions that touch an organizations supply chain business processes with the goal to reduce the cost of the functions in the chain – while improving the capability.

We have deep experiences and a tried and true methodology to assist organizations select the appropriate software systems while reducing bureaucracy and decision time – but maximizing the strategic and requirements aspects of this important activity.

The need to analyze the needs of a business function, activity, department or process and determine a rational order for the need and recommendation for change, automation and process engineering.

The need to carefully and professionally manage projects and programs is an important competency for all organizations. We have skills and experiences that do so with industry best practices tempered with many years of experiences.