At FORLOOP we take our partnerships seriously. We are business enablers, innovation leaders and realisers of value.

Leadership & Program Management

Collectively, FORLOOP brings together decades of expertise leading complex programs of work and managing diverse teams of people across the globe and over key industries. Our collective wisdom and experience gives you the opportunity to leverage major industry expertise while bringing a fresh perspective on the issue /s involved.

Working in partnership with FORLOOP, you have total peace of mind knowing we understand your vision, and have your end goal in mind. You can focus on your core business while FORLOOP delivers & leads programs for you - reassured that the program is being lead and managed in line with your business strategy and direction.

The benefit of this style:

• Clients have accessibility to FORLOOP at both the Executive and Project Level

• Utilising FORLOOP as a bridge between business and technology

• Access to fit-for-purpose innovative technological solutions

• Diverse and in-depth expertise covering a range of industries and clients

• Having the ability to lead from the trenches

Our goal at FORLOOP is to realize business value for you through innovation, integration and partnership. To transform your business to the next level by ensuring the right programs are put in place and driven to fruition for you. We do this by working together with you, and by being open and transparent throughout the process. Your success is our success.

Business Analysis & Recommendation

At FORLOOP, we see the business analysis phase as a key opportunity to confirm & articulate your business vision and core business requirements. If done properly, it can be the foundation upon which transformational strategy can become reality and your business vision is realised.

The purpose of the Business Analysis & Recommendation stage is to manage & align stakeholder expectations and ensure all parties are on the same page.

To achieve this, the organisation must undertake a business analysis exercise that incorporates process review / engineering and business requirements analysis. This process incorporates all aspects of a business case, including business objectives, benefits sought, functional analysis, solution options and recommendations.

FORLOOP can assist organisations that don’t immediately have these capabilities in house. We adopt an innovative and flexible approach that minimizes business risk and exposure whilst ensuring business benefit realization is achieved.

Our process is agile, iterative and incremental. We work with the business to engage all business stakeholders and enterprise touch-points. This ensures coverage from business objectives right through to process, functional requirements, and enterprise constraints / dependencies to determine solution options.

Our comprehensive Business Analysis & Recommendation process results in a solid business case that enables the business to evaluate options and determine next steps.

Project Management & Planning

At FORLOOP, we see the Project Management and Planning phase as critical to ensuring delivery of your business vision. It involves the planning of activities, the identification of inter- dependencies, allocation of business resources, and the impact of change, and training requirements on the business.

We see this key stage as an opportunity to create a delivery approach, in collaboration with the business, that uses resources efficiently, is least intrusive for the business and delivers results as early as possible for you. FORLOOP's agile, iterative and incremental approach is at its most valuable during this stage. The benefit of our agile approach is in realising business value early whilst minimising risk.

The core advantages of our approach:

• It reduces the risk of project over-runs by delivering implementation in smaller chunks.

• It enables revenue generation & access to market early on

• It enables the business to test the vision and business assumptions and to re-evaluate the approach toward subsequent stages and as a consequence better alignment with business objectives.

• It mitigates the risk of change management by exposing the business to incremental changes in a more seamless and manageable way, thus ensuring earlier buy-in and success.

Working in partnership with FORLOOP, organisations can benefit from a fit-for purpose team that is co-assembled with the right calibre of expertise and depth, thereby ensuring successful delivery of works for you.

The FORLOOP Project Management & Planning process will help your business realize value as early as possible, while increasing your business confidence and making the most of your business investment.

Enterprise & Solution Architecture

At FORLOOP, this phase is all about designing the agreed solution, and involves giving careful consideration to all aspects of the business requirements, and is developed together with the business..

The Enterprise & Solution Architecture offering is undertaken at key stages:
The Business & Analysis phase, in order to determine solution options to address business requirements, and / or
A subsequent stage in order to evolve the chosen option into deeper architectural & design detail

The FORLOOP solution can address requirements that cover the technological landscape, functional, time, resources, cost, roll-out & launch, change management, and support & maintenance.

The core advantages of FORLOOPs approach to Enterprise & Solution Architecture:

• The business maintains control during the design phase

• A fit-for-purpose solution design is ensured

• Continuous dialogue and validation during the solution design is maintained

• A creative and proactive approach addresses unforeseen issues well

• Invaluable & guaranteed enterprise solution landscape experience & expertise

• The solution is designed to live in the business process context

The benefit of working with FORLOOP as Business Integration partners is that clients become a part of the design process, and business expectations are continuously aligned throughout the business solution phase. This approach guarantees your solution is well designed, managed, and executed, and that we continue to realize value for the business.

Solution Delivery

At FORLOOP, the Solution delivery phase is all about the delivery team working together to execute the project solution. This phase involves the management and steering of projects as they progress toward completion, including proactively identifying & resolving obstacles that may impact on the day-to-day project activity and business outcome.

This stage gives the business an opportunity to work closely with the team, have visibility on progress of each stage and to evolve, re-evaluate & re-prioritize requirements along the way.

To ensure successful delivery of the business solution, FORLOOP brings together: A team of multi-talented resources

• An on-shore / off-shore blended team to reduce cost, while retaining IP within the business

• Allocating the right profile of resource to deliver each task

This collaborative process provides transparency of business objectives to key stakeholders and team-members, and continually engages with the business to ensure business expectations and objectives are being met. The FORLOOP way ensures you always know what is going on, and the team are always available, to provide Project and Status updates.

Support & Maintenance

At FORLOOP, we are committed to ongoing business improvement and ensuring your business solution is workable and sustainable. That’s why whatever solution we deliver can be adaptable and evolved overtime.

Our involvement with clients doesn’t end upon delivery of the project. As Business Integration partners, FORLOOP welcomes and encourages long-term involvement in the support & maintenance of the program of works we deliver.

The core advantages of this approach:

• Streamlining transition to support teams

• Providing an option of retaining IP long-term

• Single point accountability

• Ensures adherence to SLA’s through immediate access to subject matter experts

• Clients can benefit from FORLOOP's onshore & offshore teams to maximize value

Business knowledge enables optimization of support processes and eases integration with your enterprise’s change, problem or support systems.

FORLOOP can provide support and a help desk during business hours, on-call, or round-the-clock 24x7 (follow the sun). Our offices and partner network spans the globe, so we’re continually taking care of your enterprise systems.

At FORLOOP, we take our partnerships seriously. Unlike most large consulting firms, FORLOOP as Business Integration partners, will work with you to put in place processes that resolve the simple to complex problems for post implementation as well.

In the spirit of long-term partnership, we at FORLOOP see support and maintenance as a vital element of a complete solution lifecycle. For us its not just about delivering a solution it’s about ensuring a successful business outcome.

Business Benefit Monitoring

The Business Benefit Monitoring phase is often neglected as part of the process, but at FORLOOP is a major focus for our consulting work.

Our primary focus begins with the end in mind. This means, establishing what the business benefits are (during the Business & Analysis phase) and measuring them at agreed intervals post implementation.

Successful Business Benefit Monitoring is underpinned by:

• Setting tangible or measurable performance indicators for the solution.

• Undertaking periodic reviews on the business outcome.

The Business Benefit Monitoring phase provides clients with several benefits:

• Ability to re-evaluate and be part of the continuous improvement

• Ability to re-evaluate the solution

• The opportunity to review the performance of the partnership

While initially reducing cost is important, a long term view of project value and business realization is increasingly critical as the pace of technology increases. Technological know-how, leadership and expertise, such as FORLOOP's will become a more valuable asset, and will reduce the likelihood of constant business investment & reinvestment.

The Business Benefit Monitoring provides clients with the confidence of knowing their investment has delivered the outcomes sought, and the partnership with FORLOOP continues to perform and provide value for the business.

This phase is highly valuable in determining current and future Return on Investment, and can help with Business Cases for future technology improvements & investments.