Many projects that try to implement emerging technologies fail. Even those that succeed often fail to deliver the promised benefits. The number one reason for this lack of adoption is that most transformation projects attempt to implement emerging technologies using business models that were developed and aligned to deliver benefits from the older technologies they were supposed to replace.
We founded Finserv Experts because we believe that emerging technology only adds value when it lets enterprises do things they weren’t capable of doing before. The core focus of our expertise, therefore, is not the technologies themselves, but the business models they enable.
We have successfully advised a wide-ranging variety of enterprises – from nascent startups to sovereign governments to some of the world’s top multinational corporations – on how to make the most use of the world’s newest technologies to deliver new business capabilities that could not have existed without them.

Whether choosing between software providers or system integrators, one often needs to choose between companies with similar capabilities and competitive prices.  The difference between success and failure usually comes down to people – how do you make sure that your chosen partner understands what you are trying to accomplish, and how do you make sure their goals are completely aligned with your own?

Most of us at Finserv Experts have both worked for systems integrators and software houses and been clients of those firms.  We understand what they do well and where they repeatedly fail to meet expectations.  We can help you

• Choose a team that will be a good cultural fit with your own
• Craft a commercial agreement that aligns your partner’s success with your own
• Manage their delivery on your behalf, keeping scope and cost in tight sync with your business goals and timelines
• Monitor the quality of your partner’s delivery, making sure that the resources your partner mobilizes have the right skills they need to do the job

Enterprises both large and small, when looking for delivery partners to implement their solutions, are often faced with an unattractive choice.  On the one hand, they can opt to engage an experienced systems integrator with a track record of successful delivery, but in order for these firms to be profitable they have to run on a business model in which the end price they charge for their most junior resources is often several times the competitive market rate for these resources.  On the other hand, they can opt to engage a pure software delivery firm, who my have talented technical resources at a competitive price, but does not have enough business domain knowledge to successfully interpret requirements and frame a solution that can actually spur adoption.

At Finserv Experts, our approach is to provide both the business and technical domain leadership ourselves, and to work with one of several trusted software houses to build our delivery teams, which we manage on our clients’ behalf.  This way of working allows us to reliably deliver solutions that actually meet our clients’ needs without having to overcharge for basic technical skill sets.

Many of the most exciting technology innovations in play today are not about what solutions are delivered but how solutions are delivered.  From Agile to DevOps, from Test Automation to Zero Code, new delivery methods and tooling can dramatically reduce the cost of software delivery. Most important of all, leveraging these innovations can enable you to bring new solutions to market faster than your competition – but only if your enterprise is able to take advantage of them.

What many enterprises don’t understand is that getting the most out of these innovations is not just about hiring technical resources with the relevant skills, but enabling their business teams to be able to use them.  For instance

• An Agile software team can deliver software that does a much better job of aligning to business requirements, but only if the business is able to embed a knowledgeable product owner within the delivery team
• DevOps can drastically reduce the amount of time to deliver changes and bug fixes to a live platform, but only if the business is set up to take advantage of the much faster release cycle

Finserv Experts can not only train your technical teams on how to deliver using the most up-to-date methods, we can teach your business teams how to reap their benefits.