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I would like to take this opportunity
to welcome you to the Agidigm website. When we formed Agidigm, we did
so with the intention of creating a different type of consulting firm than currently
existed in the market - whether or not we have succeeded will be determined by you, our
customer.
There were many IT-focused consulting firms that existed prior to the formation of Agidigm.
And, truth be told, we had dealt with a number of them, either as a customer or representing other firms
that were their customer(s). Quite frankly, we were, in general, disappointed with the approach of the firms we
met, both large and small, who were implementing IT-based technologies.
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The primary issue that led us to form Agidigm was a
belief that IT technologies had matured to the point that neither the individual
or the organization should have to contort themselves to accommodate technology.
Rather, we believe that it is past the time when the technology should be accommodating
the individual and the organization. We believe that technology should truly be an
"enabler" for the individual and the organization; that it is the technology that should
adapt to the needs and requirements of the organization, both to facilitate and improve how
individuals perform the tasks and procedures that make up their assigned duties, as well as
providing the organization with a competitive "multiplier."
When we view the many
projects, especially those sold on the basis of transforming how entire organizations perform, we
have often wondered if those same organizations, or at least those charged with leading them,
truly understood a fundamental question: Was the accomplishment achieved worth the cost of doing so?
We have been involved in projects, peripheral to activities that
proceeded our own involvement, such as the implementation of very well known ERP systems,
where we have watched companies plan priorities and budget for work on these "systems"
that often required years of missed due dates and cost overruns on the order of 5x, or more,
of the costs presented in the original sales proposals.
What is worse, we believe, than the massive cost overruns and missed
delivery dates of these overarching systems is the impact they had (and will continue to have)
on the organizations that chose to implement them. And, that impact was derived from
watching organizations forced to change how they conduct their business in order to accommodate the
technology they had purchased, rather than the technology having been properly designed so that it could
accommodate the needs of the business. It is the position of Agidigm that any major
IT project, or more broadly, IT technology in general, should be viewed as a Performance Improvement
initiative rather than simply a project to deliver "xyz" capability.
We speak to these points above based upon the aggragated experience
that we, as Agidigm (both principals and associates), provide to our clients. All of
us who engage directly with our clients have prior experience as internal employees, where we
held positions requiring us to deliver solutions under constraints of time and resources.
Additionally, while most of those working at Agidigm have technical backgrounds, we have all
been involved in the implementation of new technologies - some IT, some focused on performance
improvement at the individual, departmental and organizational levels of the company.
To put it more directly, we have been in your position before, and now offer to you a new
approach to implementing technology in the service of improved business performance.
Jerome J. Peloquin
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When we formed Agidigm,
we had a vision of the type of consulting services that we
wanted to deliver, and the type of company that we wanted to
be. We did not, however, want to create a grandiose
"Vision statement" that would hang on a wall and be ignored by
everyone in the company - we have seen this too many times at
other companies. So, instead, we came up with a
straight-forward statement that we would share with our customers
as easily as we would share with our own associates.
As such, the Vision statement that we created, and that captured
the original vision of the founders of Agidigm, is: "To
create a company that will be focused on defining and implementing
technology for our customers that will support each individual in
the performance of their assigned duties, and to allow the organization
they belong to to benefit from this improved performance."
While we believe that we have created a company that reflects our Vision statement,
we also recognize that this is only meaningful if that statement can be translated
into accomplishments that create value. It is this creation of value, through
the use of technology to support the invididual, and the business as a whole, that we
believe creates a unique offering for our clients.
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Given the comments above,
we also believe that our Mission statement is equally straightforward.
Agidigm's mission is to improve our customer's profitability and productivity
through the use of appropriate technology in support of the performance of
the individual.
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We have no public events scheduled at this time.
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For more information on how
to how Agidigm's unique approach to improving performance
can be engaged to your benefit, please contact us using
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