What is Collaborative Productivity?

Collaborative Productivity Organize. Align. Team.

Presentation Agenda  Firm Overview  Our Solution Universe  What We Offer Our Clients  Who Needs Our Services  Service Delivery Approach  Typical Engagement Timeline  Advisory Experience & Expertise  Customer Success  Pricing & Services Offered  Contact Information 2

Firm Overview Productivity Advisors is a technology consultancy that advises Fortune 5,000,000 companies on how to select, build and use web-based apps for their businesses. Our Goal: Collaborative Productivity. Fostering a greater level of effectiveness in our Client’s firms through the adoption of web-based apps. 3

Our Solution Universe 4

What We Offer Our Clients 5

Who Needs These Services Does your organization suffer from any of these issues?  Inconsistencies in data (multiple versions of the truth)  Mismanaged projects & costs  Inefficient customer care and support  Lack of team alignment  Accurate time tracking and billing Would you like your business systems to enable?  Shortened and better coordinated sales cycles  Better understanding of expenditures  Easy viewing of your organization’s key performance indicators (KPIs)  Improved data and version collaboration – e.g., getting teams “on the same page” 6

Service Delivery Approach Discover Design Develop Deliver • Get up-to-speed • Are configurable or • Prototype • Stakeholder on business and customizable • Review with acceptance current processes solutions available in Stakeholders • Train team (or • Review business marketplace? trainers) • Get Feedback requirements • Design from existing from User • Document • Understand data client data Community • Understand to be managed • Map out data • Iterate & maintenance and • Are there critical relationships, Repeat… support needs businesses workflows and integration issues • Test throughout • Determine process needs? for revising and auditing solution 7

Typical Timeline for a Solution Standard project tasks (time is duration, not effort)  Team interviews and questionnaire intake (1 week)  Development of business requirements (1 week)  Data analysis (1 week)  Prototyping a solution (1 week)  Iterative development (2-4 weeks)  Deployment planning (1-2 weeks)  Deployment & Training (2-3 weeks) 8

Advisory Experience & Expertise Vendor selection experience  Business Management: Business Intelligence (BI), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Accounting/ERP and Project & Resource Management  Collaboration: File & Knowledge Management, Mobile and Social Web  e-Commerce: Communication, Content Management (CMS), eMarketing, Payments, Scheduling, Web Analytics and Website Development App Configuration, Customization and Development expertise  QuickBase for custom database development, CRM and project management  Google Apps for business collaboration and productivity  Salesforce.com for CRM, Marketing Automation & Support  BaseCamp for streamlined project management  Zoho for CRM, HR and project management 9

Customer Success 10

Pricing & Services Offered We work with your business team to develop a phased, budgeted approach. Of course, project time estimates are always approximate and depend on the complexity of scope, timing and deliverables.  Fee structure options:  Time & materials: For situations where business requirements are not refined, we define engagements by phases/milestones, billed hourly  Fixed bid: With adequate requirements from our Clients, we can provide a fixed bid proposal  Retainer relationships: Some Clients require a longer term relationship, structured to their particular needs (weekly/monthly)  Services offered:  Advise & coaching: Hourly relationships (5 or more hrs) to help your team select vendors, do basic configurations, develop training, produce documentation or help with organizational adoption  Analysis & prototyping: Situations where clients are not sure of the size of scope, we can help you determine what to deploy and when  Custom development: Engagements where we do discovery, design, development and delivery of customized or custom solutions 11

Contact Greg Robin, Founder & Principal email: greg@productivityadvisors.com phone: 415.935.1776 web: http://productivityadvisors.com blog: http://gregrobin.com twitter: 4productivity Thank you for your interest in 12

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What is Collaborative Productivity?

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