Overview of services

Harvard Computing Group (HCG) offers consulting services in several categories:

• Human Resources with the relevant experience for your project including:
  • Consultants with extensive Project Management experience in your industry and field
  • External Flex Staffing Services for short and long term engagements in the United States
  • Offshore programming and development partners with extensive success history for cost effective development
  • World class Microsoft Visio development team. Scott Helmers a HCG partner is one of only 14 Visio MVPs in the world.
• Technology and training
  • TaskMap software based on Microsoft Visio. The simplest and fastest way to document processes and procedures.
  • Online and onsite training courses for all aspects of process improvement. See our training section for details.
• Best practices
  • Information Technology Best Practices (ITIL and more) to reduce risk to your product
  • Sarbanes-Oxley, ISO, Six Sigma and CMMI business partners and templates
  • Specialized research services to determine best of class practices in your industry for improving organizational efficiency.

 

Consulting options:

TaskMap consultants are experts in process analysis and improvement and can help your organization to get a project rolling. Each consultant is an expert in the TaskMap system and method. Typical assignments where our consultants have considerable operational experience include:

- Quality improvement
- Change management
- Governance applications and initatives
- Efficiency and process improvement
- Knowledge transfer and training programs

Typical applications include:

Knowledge capture and transfer

- Capture of existing processes
- Designing interview questionnaires
- Conducting interviews with subject matter experts
- Development of training materials for knowledge transfer

Process analysis and improvement

- Review of existing processes
- Analysis of existing processes
- Recommendations for improvement opportunities
- Creation of “as is” and “to be” process maps
- Facilitation services

Online publishing and self-service process and procedure applications

- Design of process maps
- Discovery and verification of information sources
- Hyperlinking to relevant documents
- Assistance with web publishing options

Project Management

- Project management services and templates
- Risk analysis
- Outsourced project management services

Visual and communication analysis and conversion

- Usability analysis of existing process maps
- Conversion of “swimlane maps” to TaskMap format
- Testing and roll-out recommendations for new applications

Conversion Services

Do you have existing process diagrams and procedures that are difficult to read, comprehend or communicate with staff? Call us to discuss how converting these existing maps to a TaskMap format will increase knowledge transfer and make them a breeze to maintain and update. Existing process maps can be converted for as little as $100 per process map page. Make conversion request now.

We can do all this and more. Please contact us with details of your own requirements