Practitioners, technology providers and communities can engage with Elemental Links for advisory services, consulting engagements, workshops and custom research.
Specialization Areas
- Active Information Strategies
- Business Architecture
- Business-IT Integration
- Cloud Computing
- Enterprise Architecture in the 'New Normal'
- Event-Driven Architecture / Event Processing
- Services Architectures
Advisory Services
Elemental Links offers advisory services to practitioners, technology providers and communities. Clients use advisory time at their discretion to engage in conversation and/or receive deliverables pertaining to any of our specialization areas.
Examples of Advisory Service Use:
Practitioners use advisory time to review proposals, plans, architectures and designs; discuss technology and architectural trends within the context of their organization; receive coaching on organizational transformation issues; to bounce ideas; for sanity checks; and to drill into techniques and challenges.
Communities use advisory time for advocacy activities, program design, community facilitation, event planning and moderation, writing projects and custom research.
Providers use advisory time for technical communications development and review; marketing message development and review; and customer outreach activities.
Advisory services are retainer-based, available in 10-hour packages. Contact us today to begin your advisory relationship with Elemental Links.
Consulting Services
Elemental Links provides strategic and implementation level guidance and architectural support to organizations looking to assess, start, un-stick, advance or transform key business-technology initiatives or programs.
In 2010, consulting services are available in three specialization areas: Enterprise Architecture, Event Processing / Event-Driven Architecture, and Services Architectures.
2010 CONSULTING OFFERINGS
Enterprise Architecture:
- Enterprise Architecture in the ‘New Normal’: Program Assessment, Start-up, or Transformation
- Event Processing / Event-Driven Architecture Adoption Jump-start
- Event Processing Business Analysis, Flow and Network Design
- Services Architecture: Business and Portfolio Analysis
- Services Architecture Sustainment: Assessment and Planning
Engagements are time and materials, or fixed price. Specific engagement models are determined by the project type, scope, and duration. Engagements can be as short as half a day, or as long as half a year.
Contact Brenda M. Michelson to discuss your initiative or challenge and learn how Elemental Links can help.
Workshops
Elemental Links offers on-site workshops to practitioners considering, actively adopting, or transforming technology strategies, architectural approaches and business-technology programs or techniques.
2010 WORKSHOP PROGRAMS
Cloud Computing:
- Cloud Computing Considerations for Enterprise Practitioners
- Event Processing / Event-Driven Architecture Introduction
- Event Processing / Event-Driven Architecture Jump-start
- Event Processing Business Analysis, Flow and Network Design
Enterprise Architecture:
- Enterprise Architecture in the 'New Normal' Introduction
- Enterprise Architecture in the 'New Normal' Jump-start
Services Architectures:
- Business-First Service Analysis Techniques
- Sustaining Services Architecture Success
Jump-start workshops include an afternoon blueprinting session and 4-hours of follow-on advisory services.
Contact us for detailed agenda and pricing information.
Custom Research
Practitioners, technology providers and communities, may hire Elemental Links for custom research projects.
Project Examples:
- Customer Insight Gathering: Interviews and Reporting
- Community Advocacy: Program Development and Execution
- Executive Summits: Summit Design, Facilitation and Reporting
- Market Pulse Surveys: Survey Design and Reporting
Contact us to discuss your custom research project.
