iRedoks
STRATEGIC PLANNING CONSULTING
Business Planning, Program & Project Management
SERVICES
Planning That Works
Looking for your business to pull ahead? Need help developing your business plan, defining your business operations model, or executing your next project? Let us guide you. Any organization can move forward with small adjustments, but building for the future so you can truly pull ahead means making insightful decisions.
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How to Pull Ahead
iRedoks offers experience and success in guiding planning at all levels of your organization. Here are some of the methodologies, processes, and tools that have enabled our clients to pull ahead.
Strategic Planning
Business Planning
Operations Planning
Program Management
Project Management
Methodologies
Business Model Canvas (Canvas Template)
EOS Traction
Lean Six Sigma
Agile / Scrum (Scrum White Paper)
Agile / Feature Driven Development (FDD White Paper)
Kanban (Kanban White Paper)
SERVICES
Introductory Consultation
We examine what your organization is doing, and where you'd like to go. We use proven methods to plan strategically and operationally. Collaborating with you, we guide you to understand the implications of your planning choices, and help you pull ahead. Get in touch to learn more about how we can help you.
Projects
Helping Businesses Pull Ahead
Agile Program Execution
Global CGI - Software App Portfolio
A global computer graphics imaging (CGI) firm had from start-up developed a suite of proprietary apps to enable market differentiating image rendering competencies. The dynamic nature of the CGI space compelled the firm to continually augment and enhance their software suite. iRedoks analyzed the various work patterns employed in the client's App Services organization, then recommended and facilitated adoption of three agile methodologies, each aligned to a relevant client work pattern. Sample assessment - Global CGI Case Study.
Business Plan
Big Data Analytics Start-up
The Business Model Canvas is a templated methodology for developing and documenting new or existing, business models. It presents a strategic plan as a lean, one-page model. iRedoks guided a big data analytics start-up in developing its initial business plan using this approach. The client easily visualized elements describing its value proposition, infrastructure, customers, and finances, and in aligning activities by illustrating potential trade-offs. As a start-up, this client learned that defining its first service offer and envisioning an initial business model were one and the same.
This collaborative, hands-on approach fosters discussion, analysis, creativity, and shared understanding. Contact us and we'll guide you in using the canvas to model your firm, your new product or your new service offer.
Business Application Modernization
B2B Services Firm
This client, during its fifteen year history, had developed and deployed a proprietary software platform. The client provided services to thirty companies in the automotive aftermarket to deliver and track professional development. The owner-CEO's metaphor was that his app was like a cottage that had been added onto too many times - and now it was hard to tell if you were in the kitchen or the bedroom. The app was the business - no app, no business. Yet the client made the bold decision to replace original intellectual property with a commercial off-the-shelf tool. We engaged with the client to organize and manage the transition (Case Study).
Contact us and we'll guide you in putting your critical business program on track.
Business Plan
Data Analytics Consulting Firm
This client, a small data analytics firm, was fortunate in securing an ongoing relationship delivering services to a company that was disrupting its market. This providing our client with a platform to extend its competencies. Our client had seen growth in revenue and numbers of clients. Yet the client faced a business challenge: ten percent of clients generated ninety percent of revenue, a strategic imbalance. We engaged with our client to develop a new business plan using EOS Traction. See the planning assessment and recommendation.
Seminars Presented
Client-Vendor Partner Relationship Framework
The framework is used by both client and vendor to collaboratively manage their relationship and respective obligations and make decisions. Implemented for various partner relationships. Cited here as presented at the State of California Project Management Summit (See Video).
The Benefits of a Solid Quality Program for Project Managers
A guidance model for implementing quality management within an IT project, based on Lean/Six-Sigma and other industry standard quality models. Cited here as presented at the State of California Project Management Summit (See Video).
The California Project Management Summit is an enrichment program offered by the State of California to its IT project management professionals.
About Us
Keeping It real. Making it work. Pulling ahead.
iRedoks began in 2009 with a singular mission: partner with clients to facilitate pragmatic planning tailored to each client's business at the right level. We approach each client with fresh eyes to develop targeted, aligned strategies that capture your vision, are readily executable, and deliver results.
Tom Caiati
is the principal consultant at iRedoks. Tom is a business planning and business operations specialist. For your high potential start-up, established organization, or business critical project, Tom can help plan your business transformation.
As a consultant, he has advised small companies, start-ups, and non-profits, guiding the full range of planning: strategic business plans, start-up business plans, operations plans, and project plans. He served as a business mentor at the TechTown incubator.
A long career in corporate business leadership was the foundation for his consulting practice, leveraging a consistent record of success in Fortune 100 and start-up, entrepreneurial situations. At HP, he led the Program Management Office for a $200M division. As COO of Gradepoint, he led business operations, technology solutions, and professional services from the company’s start-up through its acquisition nine years later. At EDS, he held numerous leadership roles in business operations and consulting services, highlights include: Client Delivery Executive providing enterprise application services to all business functions for a $2.5B automotive component manufacturer, and inaugural member and executive leader of EDS’s Artificial Intelligence practice. He is a Certified Project Management Professional, and a Certified Scrum Master.
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Phone: 248-420-3523