Services

PvO Internet Technologies provides the following services:

• Website design and development

• eBusiness Readiness Assessment

• eBusiness Opportunities Assessment

• Develop Internet Business Strategies

• Evaluate and supply appropriate Internet and eCommerce technologies

• eBusiness System Implementation

• Organizational and business process change management

• Internet based marketing programs

We will work with your company to assess your eBusiness readiness, needs, review or build your Internet business strategy, review and recommend appropriate technologies and work with you to implement your solution.

We will also work with your company to support the organizational change management challenges that are so often necessary and over looked when incorporating Internet business initiatives into your new or existing business practices.

Technology is only part of the equation. Changing people and processes is just as important a challenge. More importantly, and often overlooked is aligning business processes to get full value out of IT investments. This is a concept that's been around for years, but it's taken on a new and broader urgency in the current economy.

With all the investment in Internet technology in recent years, the market demand for more real-time information, the tighter collaboration among business partners, and tremendous pressure to cut costs in slow economy all have business managers looking at business processes. That is, looking at and understanding their companies' core business processes and finding ways to substantially improve them. With that in hand businesses can look at the appropriate technology to support their changes. Good people and a great process, will beat any business with the best technology but a poor process and under motivated people.

Business process really just describes the way a company gets its work done--how it goes from taking an order to getting paid, or from selling a product to restocking its shelves. What's different about how companies approach business processes today is the way technology is woven into the efforts, creating the opportunity and the means to reorient often long-standing practices. Before choosing a technology system to improve a company, IT and business managers meet with employees, distributors and, most importantly, customers, to identify the business processes that should change to improve customer satisfaction. Typically companies will have established industry practices that have been out there for about as long as the industry has existed.

We help our clients examine their business processes based their demand for more value out of the enormous investment they've made in technology. In many cases what has failed is that companies haven't implemented the behavioral changes or the business-process changes that will allow technology to make a difference in making the company more successful. What is important is that experts can guide companies in the best way to use a new system, and not just install it.

The changing of business processes is not new, consider the reengineering focus of the early 1990s, when the economy also was battling recession. With sales and profits down and little room for price increases, companies made major layoffs but still needed to cut costs. What's different today is the role technology plays in business. When reengineering was the buzzword a decade ago, changes were enabled not by technology, but by processes changes such as negotiating a better deal with suppliers or cutting the total cost of ownership. Then, nobody talked about the enabling technologies, today we have better technologies, but still the need to streamline business processes using smarter technology investments.