Services
Information Dynamics, a small consulting firm, offers a diverse portfolio of services for both the Federal Government and Commercial sectors. Our team includes eight Certified Enterprise Architects, three MBAs and two PMPs. Below are eight areas of Information Dynamics' expertise, and specific services we provide.
Strategic Planning
Enterprise Architecture (EA)
Business Management and Consulting
IT Consulting
Project Management
Analysis and Reporting
Communication and Facilitation
IT Solutions
Strategic Planning
Anticipate and prepare for change
- Multi-decadal strategy development
- Human Capital Management
- Capital Assets Management
- IT strategic alignment (e.g. EA, SOA)
- Integrated financial planning (e.g. CPIC)
- Identification and elimination of stove pipes
Enterprise Architecture (EA)
Supporting the complete life cycle of EA
- Policy: Interpretation of Federal guidance, adaptation to and development of internal EA policy
- Governance: Implementation of Policy: establishment of procedure/structure for an EA Program, including internal processes, communications plans and performance measures
- Investment Reviews: Ensure project alignment with enterprise goals
- Program Management: Tailoring an EA Program to a customer environment; from inception to program revitalization
- Compliance/Reporting: OMB and GAO formal reporting in the Federal sphere; demonstrating RIO or other tangible value in commercial sphere
- Architecture Development: Modeling of architectural elements; framewrok development or adaption (Zachman, FEAF, DoDAF, SOA, etc.); artifact development: Registry and Repository population
- Integration: Integration of your EA program into your strategic planning process
- Auditing: Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) to ensure all is working according to plan
Business Management and Consulting
Looking at the big picture to help your bottom line
- Enterprise-wide review and analysis od business strategy, understanding and modeling core business processes to maintain agility
- Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
- Organization Development and Change Management (ODCM) support
- change management program design and implementation
- Modeling and maintenance of a business madel knowledge base
- Realizing and quantifying Return on Investment (ROI)
IT Consulting
Optimize IT for the business it was designed to support
- Enterprise-wide service assesment and cataloguing
- Creation of IT governance programs and processes using executive, stakeholder, and technical review boards for evaluation of proposed IT solutions
- Solutions intergration
- Develop and maintain business madels illustrating the relationship between an enterprise's strategic plan, core business process, and the IT systems supporting that process
- Architectural design modeling
- Policy and procedure formulation
- Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP)
Project Management
Put PMI recongnized standards and best practices to work for you
- Project Lifecycle Management
- Requirments Analysis
- Scope definition
- Resource forcasting
- Capacity planning
- Schedule development
- Regular reporting
- Risk analysis and mitigation strategies
- Issue and action tracking
- Earned Value Management
Analysis and Reporting
An examination of component elements and their relationships
- Targeted research in a wide variety of fields
- Benchmarking of industry and Federal best practices
- Review of the impact of regulatory change
- Investment Review
- Tools analysis and comparison
- Preparation and development of multiple volume documentation for Federal agencies
- Industry expert analysis
- After-action reports for events and incidents
- Call center statistics, including measuring communicator performance and productivity, and utilizing individual program frequency tables, distribution tables, and analysis of variance techniques
Communication and Facilitation
Consensus begins with the exchange of ideas
- Communications Plan development
- Executive interviews
- Transcription services (EA Reviews, investigation diaries, etc.)
- Event planning and management, including logistics support (Workshops, Forums, targeted training and orientation briefings)
- Procedure and training manuals
- Presentation and graphics support
IT Solutions
Our roots in IT are deep: we have the technical experience to ground our conceptual consultation
- Systems integration management
- Secure, Linux-based corporate servers for hosting web services (e.g. website, email, project management, and timesheet applications)
- Secure corporate wireless networks, complete with firewall, dynamic host configuration protocol, and port forwarding to allow remote access to necessary services
- Distributed rendering systems to enable networked Linux systems to drive a unified desktop consisting of nine flat panel displays
- Direct, nearly real-time communication interfaces between Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and Unix-based, immersive visualization environments
- XSL transformations to preform data analysis and render the results graphically
- Linux applications to read terrain maps of the Earth and provide automated analysis based on trajectory information
- Document statistical functions and requirements for the development of SQL Server databases, web front end applications, and Communicator Bonus applications
- Web-based applications intergrated with warehoused databases
- Database-driven company websites with server-side scripting and DHTML
- Internet presence development
- Software and system support, including ERP, contact management, and data conversion
- System analysis for existing systems and processes
- Manage users configuration, and security for data warehouses or repositories
- Recommendations for data warehousing and repository functions