Determining the Best Solution: Exploring Business Needs and Requirements

As a Business Systems Consultant, I’m often engaged by large enterprises to help guide them through the process of determining business needs, with the end goal of selecting the best system and software applications that will support their organization and their stakeholders.

For startup entrepreneurial ventures, the processes and best practices used by enterprises, can also be used to elicit key business requirements, as a basis for selecting a system or software application that will support a new venture’s foundational needs.

Researching and documenting business requirements, while time-consuming, pays-off significantly over the life of a venture. Failing to determine key business requirements at the start of a project, will result in wasted time, energy and money. A missed, key requirement, could lead to the failure of an entire organization.

So, begin the next system and software application search project, by asking key questions to determine business needs and expectations. The results of engaging this strategy will pay-off in the short and long-term results of the application selection project. Read more..