The design phase of an information system is often faced with two highly antagonistic issues:

• the need to respect time and budget imperatives,
• the pressure from users, who demand a complete and feature-rich information system.

External support adds value by better managing the permanent arbitration between costs and/or deadlines and ambitions. External providers need a strong command of the business requirements and the actual impacts on the development of the IS, plus the ability to manage the arbitration process, in order to deliver this added value.

Other factors come into play in the deployment phase, and in particular:

• the industrialization of all the tasks on the basis of pilot systems,
• the performance of training engineering,
• the efficient management of project resources,
• perfect coordination between all the project players,
• etc.

Argon Consulting helps its customers in:

• all the initial phases of the project:
  • an opportunity study based on a business case (stakes, gains, opportunity, etc.),
  • project definition: the selection of process and organization target scenarios, the associated architecture scenarios, management of the selection of the scenarios, the initial impact study, definition of the key steps and milestones, design basis of the different project phases and drawing up of the corresponding timelines, budget planning, definition of the modus operandi between the various players, etc.,
  • the creation of the steering committee, which it chairs throughout the project,
  • the drawing up of the quality plan and the risk management plan,
  • assistance in selecting the solutions.
• providing its business expertise in the design phase and arbitration between requirements, costs and deadlines,
• change management, in order to make sure that the players buy into the project and that the customer management supports it: preparation and deployment of a project communications and training plan,
• monitoring of deadlines, budget and quality of the deliverables, in order to anticipate slippage and propose suitable solutions,
• management of the solution acceptance and validation phases,
• industrialization by building the deployment kits,
• assistance with deployment in the field,
• validation of the project closure and review of the deliverables.