Our path to successful business-led technology transformation has six key elements.

• Senior-Level Advice and Support: Executives need sound business and technology advice when making complex IT decisions.

• Economic Systems Thinking: Technology choices must be driven by a broad view of a firms economics, and selected from among a wide range of available options.

• Integrated People, Process, and Technology: To create shareholder value through IT, companies should make technology investments through an integrated approach incorporating people and process.

• Project Management Rigor: Successful project outcomes arise through the right people doing things right.

• Strong Partner Network: We deliver the fullest solution by proactively engaging in a network of partner and technology relationships.

• Complete Application-to-Function Management: Our role does not end at implementation; instead, we can assist with every element of IT operations.

Senior-Level Advice and Support: Executives need sound business and technology advice when making complex IT decisions.
Navigating the opportunities and challenges of technology can be overwhelming, even for seasoned executives. We chart a course for our clients by helping them make decisions in business terms and based on expert knowledge

• Applying Technical Expertise and Business Acumen: Our senior staff are IT experts, recognized in publications and conferences for technology leadership and expertise. But we are also accomplished business professionals, with significant experience in growing and managing successful organizations.

• Bringing Clarity: We apply our knowledge to the benefit of clients by helping them articulate the role of technology in improving business performance.

• Creating the Roadmap: We work shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients to plot the evolution of technology in their businesses. We help them with key choices, such as the decision to build vs. buy, or how to create an IT function that best supports a firms business objectives.

• Making the Case: By contributing to the creation of robust and realistic business cases, we support executives who are presenting the need for investment and change.

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Economic Systems Thinking: Technology choices must be driven by a broad view of a firms economics, and selected from among a wide range of available options.
When attempting to maximize ROI, firms too often focus on cost, and not enough on other considerations, such as quality, risk, or even top-line growth.  And they are too often encouraged to select a one-size-fits-all option.

• Not Just Cost Value: Our significant implementation experience gives us the understanding required to develop the comprehensive TCO calculations required of a sensible technology plan. But we also encourage clients to take into account not just how much they will pay, but also how fast they will reach their goals, and how much value they can realize. After all, return on investment calculations have both a denominator and a numerator.

• Adaptable Implementation Options: Blue Group has a broad service offering, such as a range of ERP applications, an array of technology partners, and various development methods, which gives our clients more choices. This allows us to build tailored solutions that are optimized for our clients goals.

• Financial Flexibility: We have also designed our services to give our clients have greater financial flexibility. For example, when we host ERP applications, we also offer to amortize the costs of implementation.

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Integrated People, Process, and Technology: To create shareholder value through IT, companies should make technology investments through an integrated approach incorporating people, and process.
If a companys technology investments are going to pay off, there must be accompanying changes in people and processes.

• Highest Quality Technical Expertise: Our technical staff is of the highest quality, each certified to the standards of leading software vendors.

• Strong Functional Experience: Our technical experts work closely with a team of functional specialists who analyze and redesign workflows in accordance with best practices.

• Unrivalled Change Management Capabilities: We also possess sophisticated communications, organizational design, and learning methodologies which help organizations assimilate changes quickly and completely.

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Project Management Rigor: Successful project outcomes arise through the right people doing things right.
To succeed, technology initiatives must be managed and executed right. Our discipline and our methods have given us an industry-leading implementation success rate.

• Essential High Level Support: First, we ensure each project has proper executive level sponsorship: without this, a successful outcome cannot be guaranteed.

• Impactful Senior Staffing: Next, we assemble engagement teams whose members have an average of eight to ten years experience. This is substantially more than teams assembled by our typical competitors. However, our teams productivity and impact makes them just as cost effective.

• Powerful Co-Managed Teams: Our engagement teams work in close collaboration with clients to manage projects and to ensure knowledge transfer. This results in a much higher quality deliverable, and creates staff better able to support the final system.

• Disciplined Project Management: Finally, but most critically, every team follows well-developed project management

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Strong Partner Network: We deliver the fullest solution by proactively engaging in a network of partner and technology relationships.
In addition to participation formal Net-Flow Solutions

• Partnering for Success: Our primary partner relationships include Microsoft and Microsoft Business Solutions, Kaseya, Trend Micro, Dell, McAfee, and MotionComputing.

• Certified to Deliver: In addition to the certifications formally required of partner relationships, members of our technical staff are certified to deliver the following technologies: Microsoft, Cisco, & Dell.

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Complete Application-to-Function Management: Our role does not end at implementation; instead, we can assist with every element of IT operations.
Clients can hand off day-to-day management of many IT responsibilities to Net-Flow Solutions, so that they are free to concentrate on mission-critical activities

• Efficient Task Sourcing: While many firms may be large enough to benefit from sophisticated ERP systems, the resources required for their upkeep can be prohibitive. By contributing our certified staff to ongoing application maintenance and support sometimes known as Task Sourcing we can help clients keep their systems running properly and effectively.

• Economical Application Hosting: Acquiring and maintaining IT hardware to support applications can have a significant impact on capital requirements. We can host ERP applications, such as PeopleSoft, Lawson, and MBS, in an offsite data center, to driven down the total costs of ownership.

• Essential Business Continuity Services: The need to preserve a companys operations, even in the face of disastrous events, has been highlighted in recent years. We offer our clients vulnerability and threat assessments, continuity planning, back up data centers that help them weather even the harshest storm.

• Complete Functional Outsourcing: Many of our clients are increasingly recognizing that running an IT department is not a core competency, and instead they are turning to Net-Flow Solutions to take over all aspects of their IT operations.