This session provides glimpse and overview into the tools and techniques of strategic consulting. This presentation covers the latest strategic consulting methods and tools adopted successfully by the global consulting giants like: McKinsey, PWC, BCG and others. This presentation will also map those successful strategic consulting methods and tools enterprise level software development.

1. Strategic IT Consulting R. Prasad

5. Strategic Problem Solving Model

6. Triangle of Consulting Process

7. Structured Problem Solving Way

9. Case Study iVideoSongs.com

10. MECE ( Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive) - Break the problem in to component elements. Tool: Logic Tree Structuring the Business Problem

11. e-Commerce Site Commerce Collaboration Content Data feeds UX RIA CSS RSS Pod cast VOD Blogs Wiki Shopping Voice Based Shopping Logic Tree Example: Developing robust e-commerce Site

13. Every Client is Unique

16. Arriving @ Initial Hypothesis Additional research Industry experience Brainstorming

17. Issue Website Effectiveness Sub Issue 3 Scalability Sub Issue 1 Performance Process 2 Ajax Enabled Process 1 Static Sub Issue 2 Presentation Issue Tree

18. What-if Analysis

19. Planning and Designing Analysis

21. Project Vision

22. PMP & WBS

23. Requirement Management Plan (RMP)

24. Data Gathering : Gathering Data Smart

26. Data Sources

27. Business Requirements Document

28. Stakeholders:

30. Workshops

32. Don’t forget to send !!!

33. Interpreting the results

35. Adopt ‘ Agile Methodology’ ‘ Launch Early and Often’ Strategy Web 2.0 Interpretation

36. User Journey

37. Prototype:

38. User Story Card:

39. User Story Example: Back of Card

40. Presenting your Ideas

42. Elevator test

43. One Message per chart

44. Generate Buy-in

45. Business Case

46. Tailor Presentations

47. Managing Your Team

48. Managing Your Team

49. Managing Your Client

52. REFERENCES :

53. Thanks