The Rapid Application Selection Framework
Select your applications better, faster, and cheaper.
- Selection takes forever. Traditional software selection drags on for years, sometimes in perpetuity.
- IT is viewed as a bottleneck and the business has taken control of software selection.
- “Gut feel” decisions rule the day. Intuition, not hard data, guides selection, leading to poor outcomes.
- Negotiations are a losing battle. Money is left on the table by inexperienced negotiators.
- Overall: Poor selection processes lead to wasted time, wasted effort, and applications that continually disappoint.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Adopt a formal methodology to accelerate and improve software selection results.
- Improve business satisfaction by including the right stakeholders and delivering new applications on a truly timely basis.
- Kill the “sacred cow” requirements that only exist because “it’s how we’ve always done it.”
- Forget about “RFP” overload and hone in on the features that matter to your organization.
- Skip the guesswork and validate decisions with real data.
- Take control of vendor “dog and pony shows” with single-day, high-value, low-effort, rapid-fire investigative interviews.
- Master vendor negotiations and never leave money on the table.
Impact and Result
Improving software selection is a critical project that will deliver huge value.
- Hit a home run with your business stakeholders: use a data-driven approach to select the right application vendor for their needs – fast.
- Shatter stakeholder expectations with truly rapid application selections.
- Boost collaboration and crush the broken telephone with concise and effective stakeholder meetings.
- Lock in hard savings and do not pay list price by using data-driven tactics.
The Rapid Application Selection Framework
1. The Rapid Application Selection Framework
- A complete framework to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of software selection
- All necessary training and tools for IT leaders and business stakeholders
- Adopt this framework to:
- Improve the effectiveness of software selection.
- Reduce the time to select software.
- Reduce the cost of the applications you procure.
2. The Guide to Software Selection: A Business Stakeholder Manual
- This guide has been built to share with your business leaders and stakeholders.
- It provides a clear methodology that sets expectations with stakeholders and encourages them to uses software selection best practices to improve selection results.
- This customizable guide helps you train and guide your business stakeholders as they participate in software selection projects.
3. The Software Selection Workbook
- This critical template helps you capture and document your selection process and decisions.
- This practical template streamlines your selection workflow and provides easy-to-follow guidelines with practical examples.
- It is a reusable template for all of your software selection decisions.
4. The Vendor Evaluation Workbook
- The Vendor Evaluation Workbook provides a reusable scorecard system for ranking and comparing vendors.
- This practical template can accelerate and improve your selection process.
- It is a reusable workbook for each of your software selection decisions.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
9.4/10
Overall Impact
$12,752
Average $ Saved
18
Average Days Saved
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
The Rehmann Group LLC
Guided Implementation
8/10
$12,399
9
Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine
Guided Implementation
10/10
$2,355
20
Caribbean Public Health Agency
Guided Implementation
10/10
$6,199
10
Magnitude Capital
Guided Implementation
10/10
$5,000
5
City Of Kawartha Lakes
Guided Implementation
9/10
$10,000
5
South African Reserve Bank
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
100
Apex Companies LLC
Guided Implementation
9/10
$6,199
5
Platte River Power Authority
Guided Implementation
7/10
N/A
5
Chief Industries, Inc.
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
N/A
Connecticut Water Company
Guided Implementation
10/10
$61,999
50
City of Prince Albert
Guided Implementation
7/10
N/A
2
Armstrong Ceiling Solutions
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
2
University of New Brunswick
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
29
Washington State Department of Ecology
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
20
Advanzia Bank S.A
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
5
Real Estate Council of Ontario 1
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
5
Washington State Department of Ecology
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
10
Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
41
ATIS S.E.C.
Guided Implementation
10/10
$10,000
10
Advanzia Bank S.A
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
10
Advanzia Bank S.A
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
8
Motor Oil Hellas Corinth Refineries S.A.
Guided Implementation
8/10
$2,646
1
Advanzia Bank S.A
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
8
Association of American Medical Colleges
Guided Implementation
10/10
$58,899
47
Libro Credit Union
Guided Implementation
10/10
$100K
47
Bloor Homes Ltd
Guided Implementation
10/10
$17,100
10
Public Utility Commission State Of Oregon
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
2
BearingPoint
Guided Implementation
9/10
$9,000
5
