Consultant-in-a-Box®

The traditional project approach is failing. Our proven framework empowers your business teams to drive technology success, increase ROI, and achieve superior business capabilities.

Driving Technology ROI Through Business Mastery

The problem is clear: Project failures and underperforming technology investments are costing organizations over $1 trillion annually, with some estimates reaching $6 trillion (Source: Industry Analysts). The same conventional methods lead to the same unacceptable results.

We believe the solution lies not in more complex IT processes, but in empowering business leadership and teams to own and influence the technology lifecycle.

Consultant-in-a-Box® delivers the know-how and discipline to unlock the full potential and creativity of your business teams, leading to significantly higher technology project ROI and sustainable competitive advantage.

Executive Value Proposition: What You Gain

By adopting our approach, your organization will achieve four critical executive outcomes:

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Maximize Capability ROI: Shift from mere project thinking to Capability Thinking® to ensure technology investments continually increase business performance and value.
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Achieve Consistent Success: Elevate your project success rates above the industry average of only 30%. Our approach can increase IT performance by up to 54% (Source: Gartner, on effective IT-Business engagement).
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Optimize Vendor Decisions: Reduce costly surprises and save significant management consulting fees by empowering business teams to expertly evaluate and select software solutions.
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Improve Deliverable Quality: Ensure project outputs align perfectly with business needs, accelerating benefits realization and reducing post-implementation rework.

🎯 Our Core Solution: Business-Centric Mastery

We provide the definitive toolkit for business leaders to take control of their technology destiny. This isn't an IT methodology; it’s a business discipline that wraps around your existing execution processes.

Our framework is built on Five Business Masteries and powerful, action-oriented Checklists, Deliverable Maps, and a Master Curriculum (Masteries).

The 5 Business Masteries for Technology Leadership

These masteries provide the strategic lens and behavioral shifts needed for success:

Think Capability™: The fundamental shift. Treat technology as an ongoing, evolving business capability—not a finite project. Embed this discipline to act as a guard rail, keeping initiatives within a "cone of success certainty."
Engage System™: Realize that project success requires understanding and influencing the entire organizational "System" (e.g., culture, institutional imperatives, IT/business relationships). Success is a sociological endeavor, not just a technical one. Gartner Note: Effective engagement can boost IT performance by 54%.
Embrace Mission™: Define a clear, concise purpose for every initiative, tying capability outcomes directly back to your financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet).
Develop Insight™: Learn from history. Most failures are caused by organizational dysfunction, not technology. Our tools provide the insight to avoid common pitfalls, such as the 100x cost increase for fixing errors late in the lifecycle.
Optimize Decisions™: Streamline software evaluation. We recommend moving away from time-consuming RFPs to an agile, dialogue-based process (JITDE™) focused on vital needs and vendor partnership.

🛠 Actionable Tools: Checklists, Deliverables, Curriculums

Our Checklists, Deliverable Maps, and curriculums translate these masteries into structured, non-technical actions:

Tool	Strategic Purpose	Key Benefit for Executives
Master Checklist	Guides non-technical teams through the entire lifecycle (Pre-Project to Post-Project).	Ensures crucial due diligence and critical decisions occur earlier in the process, minimizing costly late-stage surprises.
Vendor Software Optimization Checklist	Focuses on vendor selection, due diligence, and partnering.	Empowers business ownership of the selection process, guaranteeing solutions align with future business capabilities.
Deliverable Maps	Provides clear, interactive guides for creating high-quality project and capability outputs.	Increases quality and content clarity, ensuring deliverables consume minimum scarce resources (people, time, CAPEX/OPEX).
Master Curriculum (Masteries)	A comprehensive non-technical guide through the technology lifecycle.	Enhances the influence and engagement intensity of business teams on technology projects, resulting in higher and sustained ROI.
Readiness Assessment	Validates the business team's readiness to engage in technology projects successfully.	Identify gaps in understanding to target instruction. This approach shifts the focus from simply covering material to addressing specific learning needs, making the educational process more efficient and effective.

📊 The Cost of Inaction: Why This Matters Now

Technology investments are more likely to fail or be troubled than to succeed. Continued conventional thinking allows these failures to persist:

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Failure Rate: Approximately 70% of projects either fail, are significantly troubled (miss budget/schedule by more than 10%), or underdeliver benefits.
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Financial Impact: The annual global cost of failed projects collectively exceeds $1 trillion.
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The Law of Complexity: Increasing application functionality by 25% doubles its complexity (Glass's Law). Our focus on vital needs and agile releases is the antidote to this.
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Time is the Scarcest Resource: Unlike capital, time cannot be replenished. Our focus on acceleration and minimizing knowledge transitions is designed to protect your most limited asset.

By shifting ownership, engagement, and know-how to your business teams, you can reverse these trends and achieve a clear, quantifiable return on your technology portfolio.