Business Scenario: A company has a set of loans which it needs to have evaluated by a third party. The company has 1000 loan records in their database. They have received back 975 records. The goal is to research the returned loan population from the third party evaluation company.

Individual SQL Count Query: It will be important to document how many loans are in each data population. In this business scenario, the original population results in 1000 loans and the returned population has 975 loans.

Individual SQL Count Query Example:

select count(loan_num) from original_loan_pop

select count(loan_num) from returned_loan_pop

SQL Straight Join Query: This business related query checks to see which records are in both populations. In the business scenario, the query returns 970 records. This means of the 1000 loans sent to be evaluated, only 970 loans were sent back correctly from the original population.

SQL Straight Join Query Example:

SQL Left Join Query with Criteria: This query looks to see which loans are in the original table, but are not in the returned table. The query in this example returns 30 loans.  This mean of the 1000 loans sent to be evaluated, 30 loans from the original population were not included.

SQL Left Join Query Example:

SQL Right Join Query with Criteria: This query looks to see which loans are in the returned table table, but are not in the original table. The query in this example returns 5 loans.  The results of this query mean the company who provided back the evaluated loan information some how added 5 loans that were not even included in the original 100o loan data set.

SQL Right Join Query Example:

Final Results and Findings: Based on the results of the data analysis above, a data analyst or business analysis could conclude that the data returned by the loan evaluation company is incomplete with data inconsistencies. Of the original 1000 loans only 970 were returned correctly, with 30 loans missing. More concerning, there were 5 loans returned which did not even exist in the companies original loan set.

Recruiting agencies can also help you find specialized prospects and temporary workers fast in all technology platforms including mainframe, mid-range, client servers, and the Internet. Technology recruitment teams are made up of seasoned recruiting experts, technical engineers, functional consultants and software developers who are knowledgeable in the latest technologies. Technology and business staffing agencies normally find talent internally and externally. Hiring agencies are used by Fortune 500, Fortune 1000, and small businesses. Recruiting firms have to be fast and efficient at screening candidates to fulfill their responsibility to today’s businesses.

Main functions recruiting firms perform are screening, negotiating with prospective employees, identifying, recruiting, and interviewing. Companies can also use professional recruiters to help push an existing project or supplement your companies staff as a whole.

General Business or Technology Staffing agencies generally charge 30% of the hired employees first years salary. Due to this huge investment, it is important to make sure you are dealing with a professional recruiting agency. Steps to improve your success in finding a trust worthy affordable agency is to set your hiring goals, do extensive research on the hiring agency, and of course ask for quotes from various hiring firms.

One way to help you do research on a hiring agency is do a quick search in the American Staffing Association’s database(ASA member database). Members of the ASA association promise conform to industry standards and are said to be up to date with latest human resources developments and trends. Another sometime forgotten resource to use is the Better Business Bureau. After a database search and BB check, you will have a list of agencies to start from. Now reach out to your business partners in your area for recommendations, suggestions, and possible referrals. Another way to screen an agency is to ask them to simply visit your office. This will give you a feel for their professionalism along with giving the agency an opportunity to get a feel of your company’s culture.

Chief Operating Officers play a critical role within the organization. They are responsible for running the day-to-day business operations, and are key members of the CEO’s core management team, all of whom collaborate to develop and implement the organizations long term strategies.

The responsibility of running of day-to-day business operations spans many business needs, such as the need to select a new software application to support your financial and accounting needs, or the need to develop and kick-off a new marketing campaign for one of your core product lines, or the need to retain temporarily help to cover for three key employees who are out on medical leave.

RFP & Proposal Development Services are geared towards supporting you pre-sales processes. If you are a business in need of selecting the right product or vendor to provide a solution to an existing business need, you probably understand that this can be a substantial undertaking. We can do the legwork for you – we can develop the RFP, distribute it to a selected (or recommended) list of vendors, be the point-of-contact, manage the vendor vetting process, host a bidder’s conference, and pull together the vendor RFP responses for comparative purposes – all of which is time consuming but necessary to help you to make a knowledgeable final product decision or vendor selection.

Additionally, when you need to develop a proposal, or when you receive RFP’s that your organization would like to respond to, but your existing sales team is stretched to it’s limits, business management services can support your pre-sales efforts by developing the proposal or RFP response for you.

Sales Support Services provides background support to your sales teams and sales & marketing processes. If you are launching new products, new services, or sales campaigns, our seasoned sales support specialists can assist by developing them for you. You provide your thoughts, ideas and insight, we do the time consuming development work!

We can provide the appropriate technical pre-sales engineer to work with and support your sales executive throughout your sales cycle, even accompanying your sales person to important sales meetings and presentations. We can develop PowerPoint presentations, develop and negotiate contracts, perform ROI analysis or technical writing – all which supports your sales team, leaving them the time they need to focus on “closing the sale”.

Staffing & Recruiting Services are geared to provide quality support to your existing recruitment team and  processes. We can perform the recruitment, selection and vetting for all of your business or technology personnel.

We start by developing a comprehensive job specification from which we will recruit. Once the job specification has been approved, we will embark upon the search for the perfect individual – an individual possessing as many of the skills described as possible. We turn over to you only the most skilled candidates, allowing you to spend your time meeting with only the ‘best and most qualified’.

Business Management, Development & Restructuring Services are geared towards providing oversight, advice and expertise to organizations in need of identifying direction, structure, and support in evaluation, restructuring or redeployment of a practice, business model or working processes associated with a particular division, methodology or lifecycle.

Business management services provide expertise and helps establish proven industry standards in all areas of technology practices and technology sales operations. In assisting in the implementation or stabilization of a practice, management services conduct an in-depth study of operations and relevant personnel to determine and recommend a proper course of action.

At times, recommended actions can warrant the re-training or replacement of personnel, as well as the restructuring of business models and business or technology processes. In some cases business services may recommend deploying our own personnel to temporarily carry on responsibilities associated with a particular role while permanent, full-time personnel are being secured. This option generally takes place when an employee in a critical role has been terminated or promoted to another role, when an organization has recently restructured and NEW roles have been identified but not yet filled, when existing staff needs time to relocate in order to fulfill new job responsibilities, or when an existing employee is out on short or long-term disability.

RFP & Proposal Development Services

* RFP Development
* RFP Response Development
* Proposal Development
* Vendor Vetting & Selection

Sales Support Services

* Pre-Sales Engineering
* Contract Development & Negotiation
* Media Presentation Development
* ROI Analysis & Development
* Campaign Development
* Product/Services Launching
* Technical Writing

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* Business Restructuring & Evaluation
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* Campaign Development
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Currently many business organizations are focused on technology ‘security’, and the procedures that are in place to secure and protect people, data, systems, facilities, assets and property – all of which tie closely to government mandates such as HIPAA, SOX and GLB. Security planning also ties closely to business continuity planning – the plan that provides security to your shareholders, employees, and customers. Your business continuity plan helps to ensure that your organization has the ability to continue to function and stay in business during or after a catastrophe or disaster.

A key responsibility of a CSO is to help determine the areas of weakness within an organization and to correct those weaknesses, which if compromised, can impact the ability of the company to continue essential functions and mission-critical services.

In that today’s world is data-centric and information driven, the ultimate role and challenge of the CSO is to anticipate disaster scenarios – they must create check-points and redundancies to maintain and safeguard systems and facilities, and they must develop processes and security measures that protect people, data, and both client and corporate assets and property.

In the 1990s the government, as a means of demanding corporate accountability, passed Acts such as HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley and GLB, that require organizations to undergo annual compliance audits to help to ensure that such safeguards are in place.

Putting such procedures and processes in place require specific knowledge and expertise, and many smaller organizations seek out that CSO expertise on a ‘part-time, contract, or on-demand basis’, since employing these resources full-time would be cost-prohibitive.

It should also be noted that since 9/11, many organizations, especially international organizations and government institutions, will not conduct business or trade information with other organizations that cannot prove voluntary or mandated compliance to generally accepted security guidelines and principles such as ISO 17799 or SAS70, both of which can also be used to support SOX and GLB compliance.

Currently there are many comprehensive CSO or CSO Managed Services programs, which provide peace of mind to any company seeking security certification or compliance, seeking to secure their IT infrastructure and information, or seeking to develop a solid business continuity plan that will help guarantee their ability to continue operations during or after a breach or disaster.

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CIO/CTO On-Demand
The Chief Information Officer or Chief Technology Officer will provide your organization the technology vision and leadership required to successfully develop and implement the best information technology solutions possible to support your business and information needs. They will provide strategic and tactical planning, development, evaluation, and coordination of information and technology systems.
Chief Information Officers provide technology leadership to the organizations they represent. The CIO leads the charge in planning, developing, and implementing enterprise information technology (IT) programs and initiatives, both distributed and centralized.

CIO/CTO Services – the Chief Information Officer or Chief Technology Officer will provide your organization the technology vision and leadership required to successfully develop and implement the best information technology solutions possible to support your business and information needs. They will provide strategic and tactical planning, development, evaluation, and coordination of information and technology systems.

Your Challenge …

You and your existing senior management team have just come out of a company-wide meeting, and after listening to issues brought to your attention from your mid-level managers, you’ve come to the realization that your current business systems are inadequate and are not meeting the demands of your user community or your customers.

In order to be successful your organization needs quick and easy access to customer information, and your current disparate systems simply cannot provide what you need. You lost two key customers last month because of your inability to resolve critical issues for them in a timely manner. Something must be done immediately before similar problems occur with other customers, but what? A new core business system must be selected and implemented…

You fully recognize that such a need will require a very substantial financial investment in network infrastructure, application software and professional implementation services, and therefore warrants focused research and due diligence to determine the best solution to move forward with. But, you do not have a CIO or CTO. or perhaps the ones you have are already spread too thin…

Managed services and on-demand programs are utilized to address such scenarios everyday.

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The term on-demand can have a couple of meanings when referring to hiring. One meaning is the ability to find employees or employment as needed from various hiring sources. Another way on-demand is used is to refer to pay as you go employment. This can apply senior management, business analysts, or project managers.

In this article we will focus on the benefits of senior managements teams and on demand hiring. Time after time business are successful due to a great senior management team. This is what solid organizations are mostly built on. In today’s business most organizations have a Certified Executive Officer (CEO), Certified Information Officer (CIO), Chief Operations Officer (COO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Privacy Officer (CPO), Chief Security Officer (CSO) / Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). This upper management team controls every aspect of a company and is tasked with driving strategic direction of Americas large companies.

With small and medium business (SMB) needing the same expertise with less budget and less employees this presents a challenge. On demand hiring, mainly through management staffing services, can fill this senior management void for SMB companies at a budget which makes sense. In present day it is common place to outsource jobs or positions which can make sense from both an economic and business sense stance. Many great management firms hire senior management team members specific to their expertise. This is a great option to guide organizations when critical and costly decisions are about to be made. This holds doubly true when those important decisions are related to technology. On demand senior management consultants can help steer your company’s senior management advisors.

Benefits of On Demand Senior Management Staffing:

- Ability to have a fixed monthly cost for staffing. Normally management firms allow long and short term staffing options for individuals and complete management teams.
- Senior professionals available at will. This is a great benefit due to the difficulty to find the right fit fast.
- Avoid costly mistakes by hiring experience.
- Experience lower development costs.
- Reduce company stress and provide strong leadership.
- Improve ROI