IT Services Designed to Improve Your Business
While we provide many services related to improvement of business processes using technology, more notable areas of specialization are listed in the tab panels below.
Ways Wealth Stems Will Help Your Business
We are dedicated to helping you leverage technology to acheive your business objectives. Some recently completed examples include:
- Design and development of a corporate Intranet portal facilitating tracking of HSSE (Health Safety Security Environment) standards, compliance training and incident reporting. The portal is accessed worldwide by employees of a global oil and gas company.
- Design and development of an Internet portal providing robust back-end administrative management, the ability for medical practitioners to look up CPT codes and related fee shedules from a comprehensive list of health care insurance companies. There are currently about 1,100 medical practitioners accessing the site.
- Design and development of a purchasing and asset-tracking system for a major drilling rig contractor. The Intranet application is used by over 100 oil and gas drilling rigs and a major warehouse distribution center serving the contractor company.
Process Improvement
Process improvement is the art of improving a set of logically related tasks to improve efficiency and achieve outcomes valued by the customer. There are many process improvement methodologies, such as Total Quality Management (TQM), Constraint Management and Six Sigma.
Our consultants at Wealth Stems understand the trends and challenges facing today's service industries. We facilitate the documentation and analysis of your critical business processes and implement solutions aligned with redesigned processes to enhance operational efficiencies.
Tech Consulting
We advise our clients on how to best use information technology to advance their business objectives. At Wealth Stems, we focus on:
- Relationships - understanding the personality and expectations of client, client organization and all other stakeholders
- Clearly-Defined Roles -defined roles and responsibilities for both clients, other stakeholders and consulting team
- Success Visualization - helping clients see the end at the beginning
- Advise, Not Decisions - the client is the best person to decide
- Results Oriented - ensuring that the solution addresses end user concerns, user training, implementation and maintenance constraints
Custom Software
Technical competence is always necessary when architecting custom solutions, however, understanding the needs and challenges of our customers is of even greater importance. Wealth Stems designs and develops business-critical Internet Applications that diminish IT complexity and facilitate smooth process flows and business operations, making them easy to manage and monitor.
Wealth Stems thoroughly analyzes and evaluates your business needs, develops plans in collaboration with you, and obtains your approval of the strategy before embarking on the design and development of your solution.
Wealth Stems offers customized, flexible Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) using such technologies and platforms as PHP, Adobe Flex, Microsoft SharePoint, Ajax and others.
Project Management
The causes of technology project failures include project management issues that confront all projects - inadequate time, budget, or resources to devote to a project. IT and software-development projects also face unique technology challenges - fluid or ill-defined requirements; hardware, operating system, network or database instability; information security risks; interoperability issues ...
Wealth Stems develops a thorough understanding of your business by dedicating an Account Manager and documenting all information gathered during our first and subsequent discovery meetings regarding your organization's processes and all project management deliverables.
There are many models for and facets to project management. Wealth Stems pays particular attention to the ones listed below.
- Requirements Management: the process of documenting, analyzing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements, and then controlling change with close communication to relevant stakeholders. Requirements management is a continuous process throughout each project.
- Risk Management: identification, assessment and prioritization of project risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events and to maximize the realization of gainful opportunities.
- Extreme Project Management: An agile development methodology intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements.