Project and Program Management

Project Management is one of the hottest trends in IT practice improvement with good reason: your company's investment in technology and professional staff will be wasted unless sound processes and methods are both in place and followed.
B4B Solutions base of experienced project management consultants are experts at reducing project management risk.Most of our consultants are PMP certified and all have extensive background in managing enterprise and large to moderately sized projects. B4B Solutions offers services that address not only project management tools but also the people and the processes that support successful project implementation.

We can help lead you to

• Evaluate your program management and project management practices
• Design and implement a Program/Project Management Office
• Create Project Management Competency Assessments and Development Programs
• Analyze your IT processes and their implementation, including critical project structuring, risk,issue and change management processes.
• Review your project management supporting technology selection and implementation
• Develop and deploy Project Manager Coaching and Mentoring Programs for individuals and teams
• Assess your IT organization to identify recommendations and help with their implementation.
• Engage Best Practices and Strategic Project Portfolio management

New Business/Client Intake Strategy and Technologies

B4B Solutions has advised numerous law firms on effective ways to manage the process of new business intake and conflicts. From our experience in this area, B4B Solutions consultants have developed best practices for organization, process and technology to provide better risk control, reductions in write-offs, optimized attorney time and a more productive administrative staff. We enable our clients to take on the most business possible while still accurately measuring and effectively managing risk.

Our services will help guide you to:

• Document your current new business intake and conflicts practices and the concerns of those using the system
• Analyze the current model to ascertain whether it supports the firm's stated business strategy,goals and risk tolerance.
• Evaluate your staffing model, skill and training levels, and roles and responsibilities
• Identify high-potential improvement opportunities across all aspects of new business intake and conflicts resolution, including policies, processes, procedures, rulestriggers, existing technology and new solutions
• Recommend solutions consistent with "est practices"to take advantage of the opportunities identified
• Develop an implementation strategy for moving forward with needed changes
• Assist in the creation of policies, processes, training programs and design specifications that are flexible to adapt to future requirements
• Manage the implementation of improvements

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

B4B Solutions provides comprehensive business continuity planning, technical solution architecture and implementation services. Our structured methodology addresses risk mitigation and business recovery planning for people, process, organization and technology. As part of this process, we will work with the administrative and technical management teams to assess the Firm's current recovery capability, and then define practical and cost effective business and technology recovery strategies. Once the strategies are defined, we will assist in the development of the business continuity plan to address technology and operations recovery, as well as displaced employees.

Our services include:

• Business Continuity/Recovery Capability Assessment
• Business Continuity Plan Development
• Data Replication and Mirroring
• High Availability Application Architecture Planning
• Backup and Data Recovery
• Co-location/Secondary Data Center Selection
• Clustering and Virtualization

Solution and Vendor Selection

B4B Solutions helps reduce costs and increase value by structuring the solution/vendor selection and management process to support informed decisions. We work with you to define your business needs, and then translate that information into system requirements using a structured format that facilitates quantitatively and qualitatively measuring and differentiating prospective vendors and their solutions. We also assist in negotiating contracts and identifying standards to ensure that the selected vendors deliver the expected solutions. B4B Solutions can guide In-source/Outsource decisions using rating/ranking analysis, requirements definition and implementation plans.

To help guide your next vendor engagement or solution decision, B4B Solutions consultants can:

• Develop structured vendor selection plans
• Effectively utilize RFIs, RFPs, rating and ranking selection criteria, and requirements matrices
• Apply vendor evaluation toolsets
• Provide independent and objective vendor evaluations
• Conduct contract negotiations
• Manage implementations