" Visiomente helped us build a compelling web site that matched the innovation of our company. As a result, the user experience has been greatly improved and feedback to date reflects that. Our goal is to develop first-in-class and best-in-class products and now we project this commitment to the public via our best-in-class website and content management system. "
Jim DeNike
Senior Director, Corporate Communications
Trubion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
" Working with Aaron on a long-term project from launch to maintenance modes was a positive experience. His attention to detail, ability to problem-solve, and technical implementation skills kept the project moving and ahead of schedule. I highly recommend Aaron's work and partnership abilities. "
Holly Rawson
Sr. Director of Strategic Development
InPhonic, Inc.
" Visiomente not only helped us reshape the the look and feel of our site and business, they helped us recreate our brand in ways we had not yet explored. I couldn't be happier with our end result! "
Kyle Smith
President
Fantasy Football Xtreme
" In his role as our Senior Security Architect, Jan Vandenbos has been the key individual responsible for driving our entire online security strategy and ongoing audits and assessments. He is an action-oriented, forward-looking thought leader who has provided both the technical tools and infrastructure as well as the processes and best practices rigor that have enabled us to dramatically reduce our vulnerability while increasing our code quality. He is an industry expert who has the rare ability to work at both the executive level as well as at the detailed application code level. "
" Simply stated, his talents and his work here have been top notch. Because of Jan’s efforts, we are now an exemplary eCommerce site leading the way. "
Tim Roberts
Technical Director
AT&T E-Commerce
What We Do
Management Consulting
Our vision of the next generation enterprise, colloquially – ‘Enterprise 2.0′, is driven by the new social and collaborative framework taking shape in business today. Helping organizations stay ahead of the curve, setting and achieving clear objectives, strategies and tactics, and coping with the new ’social business framework’ in a global ‘flat’ economy is what our management consultants are skilled at.
Our Organizational Consulting portfolio includes:
- Strategic Planning – we work with executives to analyze their issues and concerns and help them see through the ‘fog’, and define clear objectives and direction for their organizations. We couple this with helping companies understand their market presence and positioning and help them set strategic direction to ensure their organizations follow suit behind the objectives they set and yet are agile enough to remain competitive with respect to today’s global economy, and changing social/cultural structures.
- Organizational Architecture – our Organizational Architecture services helps organizations design and implement organizational structure and build community and collaboration within their companies and amongst their partners, suppliers and customers.
- Scenario Planning – our methodology to helps customers who are interested in evaluating the potential outcome of multiple scenarios (economic/financial, sociocultural and technological) to determine which scenarios have a high probability of beneficial outcomes. These scenarios are often conducted as inter and intra-organizational ‘wargames’ and participatory actives to bring the respective parties to the table and brainstorm solutions.
- Governance – we help organizations derive the appropriate organizational structure to manage their technology and organizations, replete with policies, process and procedures to allow them to govern themselves better.
- Instrumentation and Metrics – we assist organizations with implementing metrics (KPI’s, Balanced Scorecard, etc.) to help them achieve strategic objectives, measure the effectiveness of their organizations and set the stage for process and general organizational improvement. (Managing costs more effectively and optimizing internal processes)
- Risk Management – wherein we assist organizations with analyzing their current risk (threats, vulnerabilities, likelihood and impact) by examining their current state and helping them analyze the effect of varying controls on mitigating risk to their businesses and digital assets. (Note: We do not do physical security, investigations or forensic work) This practice area includes Data Protection and general information risk management, but does not address fiduciary risk (at this time).
Technology Consulting
We help our customers analyze technology needs and choose effective solutions to address those needs. This practice is less so focused on network design and traditional technologies — and more so on how to effectively use information, communication and social networking technologies to better govern and manage their businesses.
Our portfolio of services in technology includes:
- Technology Audit – wherein we assist customers with determining the current state of their organizations technology infrastructure .
- Technology Roadmapping – wherein we work with executives and leadership at organizations to help them plan future deployments of technology and how it will shape their business.
- Portal Technologies (Sharepoint, etc.) to help them communicate information both internal to their organizations, across their business partner/supplier networks, and with their existing and potential customer base.
- Communication Technologies – including instant messaging, bulletin boards, wiki’s and voice over IP solutions to assist them with connecting their workforce (local and remote).
- Web (2.0) and Internet Technologies – including assistance with the analysis, design/architecture and build of Internet and Intranet web presence (web sites) that use the most effective technologies to reach their audience. This includes the development of organizational web sites as well as e-commerce functionality.
Social Systems Consulting
The new enterprise is open, networked, global and focused on collaboration across the entire organization. The rise of Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media is enabling new business strategies and designs that enable organizations to create enhanced value. We work to help your organization reap the benefits of these shifts including: better knowledge retention, faster information discovery, higher levels of collaboration, and higher worker productivity to name a few.
Our portfolio of services in Enterprise 2.0 and Social Media includes:
- Enterprise 2.0 Assessment – analysis of business, IT and stakeholder needs and requirements through proven methodology.
- Social Software Alignment – pragmatic filtering of the Enterprise 2.0 solution that satisfies predetermined goals and objectives.
- Implementation – identify a successful adoption strategy including solution deployment and community management development and training.
- Social Media Strategy – analysis of strategic goals of various functional departments be it Marketing, Sales, or Customer Service.
- Social Media Solution Selection – solution selection to meet identified goals and objectives including: blogs, message boards, social networks, and or micro-blogging tools.
- Reporting and Analysis Strategy – identify key success metrics and implement strategy to capture said metrics.
- Adoption Best Practices – product and/or service education and training.
Advanced Technologies Group
More and more our customers are faced with managing and mining large volumes of data for information valuable to the operation of the business.
These same customers are faced with:
- Increasing demand on internal and external facing web and/or client/server applications.
- Technologies on the cutting edge and expertise to support these technologies to assist companies with tough management concerns that require solutions far in advance of those in commodity use in the marketplace today.
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High Performance Division
- Troubleshoot performance and scalability problems at the network, data and application layers
- Design, architect and build highly scalable, high volume transaction and processing systems
- Analyze and refactor existing applications to address scalability, performance and availability needs
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Research and Development Division
- Monitors new technologies and trends and keeps an eye on the innovation front of technology to identify and develop expertise around technologies that address unique customer needs in todays market
- Employs highly technical skill sets that have expertise in these same cutting edge technologies (for example – tools to manage and analyze very large scale (hundreds of Petabyte) data stores. (Think Google/Amazon).
