Joint Technology Selection™

The Accelerated Approach to Selecting Software Solutions and New Technology

The Business Issue

A typical organization invests heavily on information technology (IT) each year: technology that is not only strategic, but often critical to its survival. At the same time, solutions have become more complex, salespeople have become more sophisticated, and end users of information systems have become more demanding. As a result, the selection and purchase of IT hardware and software has become slower and—given the costs associated with the wrong decision—riskier than ever before.

The CTG Answer

CTG has applied our over 40 years of experience in helping our clients achieve their business goals through IT to the development of an efficient, rapid technology selection process that significantly reduces both the time and risk traditionally involved.

Our proprietary Joint Technology Selection (JTS) methodology provides a structured, accelerated, decision-making approach designed to systematically build a group consensus on the choice of new technology.

Group consensus throughout the selection process helps ensure active 'buy-in', as well as solid support and benefit accrual during subsequent implementation: support that is essential to achieving successful, long-lasting operational benefits from your IT investment.

About JTS

The JTS methodology promotes successful decision-making through these key principles:

• Objectively facilitated, structured, and accelerated group decision-making
• End user involvement throughout the selection process to promote buy-in
• Solution evaluation effort expertly focused for efficiency and speed
• Risk reduction through observation and validation of critical business capabilities
• Leveraging CTG’s integration expertise to support budgeting and implementation planning

The progressive JTS approach integrates your knowledge of your business with CTG’s IT expertise and experience in the objective facilitation of structured decision-making.

Several Key Factors Differentiate the JTS Approach

• JTS is proven 30 to 50% faster than traditional selection and technology procurement methods. It is also less risky. Speed is achieved by carefully focusing effort as early as possible to validate that the finalist candidates meet critical business requirements.
• JTS helps ensure that business performance improvement objectives are attained by systematically validating critical technology capabilities and fostering organizational buy-in through continuous involvement of client business area experts in the selection process.
• JTS promotes a highly optimized exchange of knowledge among business users of information technology who know their business, technology vendors who know their products, and CTG, an integrator experienced with package software implementations spanning many industries, including single and multiple sites spread across the globe.
• CTG acts as an objective facilitator, unbiased toward any particular solution or vendor. Our JTS consultants facilitate: they don't recommend. Selection decisions are reserved for end users, to ensure their full support and buy in.

Our Commitment to Quality

CTG ensures the consistent delivery of the highest-quality services through proprietary best practices formally defined in our global quality system.

CTG was among the first in our field to have designed and implemented a comprehensive Total Quality Management program. Our program is registered to ISO 9001:2000 worldwide, and formally assessed every six months by an independent auditor, the Bureau Veritas Quality International (BVQI).