Your needs	Our Services
Make my product successful	Develop essential use cases and design/align product to usage*. Focus on key customer values that must remain current with changing technologies and industries.
Articulate my value proposition.	Craft value proposition, create alternate visual and textual ways to communicate to customers
Compare and select technologies based on my needs	Compare technologies (best practices, key differentiators)
Create effective architectures and help me visualize my options and opportunities	Architect, create visual architectures & designs (diagramming for innovation, architectural patterns, and options)
Understand and trade off my key quality attributes (e.g., security, reliability, performance, etc.)	Present, review, and balance system quality attributes. Work with stakeholders to determine tradeoffs
Help me define a methodology that helps me deliver solutions that my stakeholders really need.	Understand stakeholder needs with approaches such as our Business Solution Workflow Review that involves key players from the start and tracks their needs through delivery
Capture and present my ideas	Present complex ideas clearly and effectively (white papers, scenarios, position papers, presentations)
Research and analyze technology and trends. Figure out what my key differentiators are.	Research and analysis. Drill down to the key differentiators. Apply fitness-centered principles to focus on real customer value
Explain and present my technology clearly and persuasively	Explain my ideas (detailed visual presentation and distillation of concepts, patterns, and approaches)
Facilitate stakeholder agreements for me on technology and policy	Work with stakeholders, facilitate agreement (usage*-centered requirements elicitation)
Help me understand how I can prepare for the next technology	Leverage technology trends (usage*-centered trend analysis)
Define effective policies and procedures for my organization	Define policies and procedures (usage*-centered policy articulation and tradeoffs; security expertise)
Help me start with a good enough interface	Design by usage* paradigm and scenario, 80/20 fitness evaluation of impact and targeting, storyboarding and testing
Customize my office applications	Usage*-driven mode or mini-mode tailoring. Template design. Toolbar and menu creation. Specialized macros and scripts
Design my information architecture	Design information architecture based on medallion principles. Incorporate current best practice principles based on usage* patterns.
Capture my decision process for later review, including defining principles, and the rationale and tradeoffs at key decision points	Capture key decisions and all of the supporting information. Help clients recognize important decision points when they occur and articulate the rationale and tradeoffs
Help me market my ideas, solutions, and products	Create usage* scenarios, usage-centered fact and comparison sheets, value propositions, graphics, animations. Make Camtasia videos
Roll out my product, including training, processes and procedures, etc.	Prepare materials and training for product rollout. Finalize training and marketing messages; make quick review (crib) guides; develop procedures, steps, guidelines, standards; write/create solution delivery toolkit.

See the APConnsulting, LLC brochure in PDF screen format (600K, first download takes a while). The zip pdf file (higher resolution for printing, 800K)‡ is larger, but will display faster on some computers.

*See important explanation of the term "usage"

‡To print this brochure in duplex (2-sided) mode, make sure that the settings are to flip on the short side. For slower computers, we suggest you download the zip file and read locally. Note: some browser plug-ins choke on large pdf files, so it may be much faster to simply download the zip file and open it with Adobe Reader.