In the building business its common practice to engage an architect and even a trusted general contractor to make sure that the structure is well specified - is what the client wants and that the right materials and work is performed. Have you ever seen a company decide to commission a building and talk to the people who lay the foundations or the dry wall first? In general many I.T. and Internet solutions suffer from a lack of independence between the suppliers of resources and tools and what are really the right answers - in some respects this is a "solution gap". Why let the builder tell you what they want to sell you to build? This is like letting the fox in the henhouse!

To bridge this divide a new type of consulting model is required where there is no "bench" or software or technology, rather a mandate to use whatever technologies and resources are required whether it's the client's own people, a software vendor's or contract programmers. This yields a better solution but also can reduce the cost of solution development and implementation by up to 70%.

Elements of this solution set are as follows:

• Situation analysis
• Solution Identification, analysis - business case assistance (as required)
• Scope Definition/Requirements
• Solution specification and end state architectures (business/process/technical
• Team selection
• Program/Project Plan validation and agreement
• QA - Milestone monitoring
• Performance Review