Business Consulting

StarIsis personnel have over fifty years of combined experience in helping businesses with process improvements. The StarIsis team has been extremely successful in helping businesses and organizations double their outputs while reducing resources through business process streamlining and improvements.
Key areas of focus are:
Analysis of operations, processes and workflow
Recommendations on opportunities for streamlining
Recommendations on changes to facilitate innovation and excellence in business processes
Recommendations on use of Six Sigma where applicable
Business re-structuring to ensure flexibility in meeting changing business and market needs

   Business Continuity

StarIsis personnel bring years of experience in developing, testing and implementing processes to ensure business continuity. The plans will be specific to the type of business and the factors that impact continuity of the business operations.

  Organizational Change

To be successful in a global economy, businesses and organizations have to be prepared for change. Change is received differently by different people and different generations. StarIsis team members have led major changes successfully. They will bring their practical experience and help identify factors in the business that will help and hinder change. The team will also help in deploying key elements to support change and facilitate participation within the organization.

  Decision support

StarIsis will provide recommendations, help with the architecture and/or in developing solutions that help support decision making. Specific areas of Decision Support include:
Business Intelligence: The StarIsis team will study the business goals, analyze the data and information and create a roadmap to integrate data across the organization with the focus on providing business intelligence to the end users to support the business goals. StarIsis will also identify gaps and recommend solutions to bridge the gap. The team will recommend and/or provide strategy and solutions to develop and deploy the road map to provide a practical working solution to the client.
Master Data Management: StarIsis will work with the client to develop master data management strategies that cover consolidation versus federations versus propagation. The strategies will help stakeholders develop a single view of critical data. StarIsis will bring its years of experience in streamlining data sharing across multiple architectures and technologies to provide common reference points.
Executive Data and Performance Management: StarIsis will recommend and/or develop the Performance Management Cycle to help organizations develop and deploy processes required for continuous improvement. As one of the elements of continuous improvement, StarIsis will help develop measures and identify executive data required to monitor, manage and develop innovative processes to facilitate continuous improvement.

  Project Management

StarIsis personnel have decades of experience successfully managing multiple complex megaprojects simultaneously. The team will manage projects from inception to full implementation or assist with the delivery of components of projects to help augment the expertise or resources of a client.

  Technology Consulting

StarIsis will review technologies currently used in organizations and advise and make recommendations on how to take maximum advantage of available technologies. StarIsis will also recommend and help businesses identify and/or select technologies to support their business needs.

Technology Strategy: StarIsis will review the business goals and strategy of an organization and help develop a plan on how to leverage various technologies to successfully accomplish the business goals. The plan will provide a roadmap on phasing out technologies that do not provide value or are non-usable, maximizing productive technologies and a detailed plan on how to phase technologies not used in the organization where applicable. The strategy will also look at the role and impact of Web Presence to the business and recommend appropriate strategies based on applicability.

IT Management: StarIsis personnel have decades of successful IT Management experience. StarIsis will work with Information Technology and Business divisions within any organization to maximize performance and help align IT to support the needs of the business. The team will Identify gaps and help streamline, develop and deploy processes and training required for IT to help business respond quickly to changing needs and foster a relationship augmented by processes that supports innovation and collaboration.

IT Operations: StarIsis will review IT processes and operations and identify good and ineffective practices, identify gaps, provide advice on deploying processes and systems, recommend organizational changes and training and technology needs to help IT manage and run their operations effectively and more efficiently to support enterprise goals and objectives.

Data Architecture and Analysis: StarIsis will review and analyze existing data architecture and make recommendations on changes in data management, processing, storage and use in systems with the goal of long term enterprise data management and use in an organization.

Data Integration and Warehousing: StarIsis will review all sources of enterprise data in the organization and develop a roadmap for data integration. The roadmap will create a plan to combine data from heterogeneous sources to provide a unified single view of relevant data. The team will provide recommendations on technologies and solutions that will speed up the integration process. The team will recommend simple query tools and develop / recommend training to help the organization speed up the migration to using the integrated data warehouse. The team will also recommend processes that need to be in place to automate the update of data into the warehouse. Plans to ensure that new systems developed also integrate data with the warehouse will also be recommended.