ABX Solutions Delivery Methodology

ABX delivers requirements-driven solutions by leveraging a structured, predictive model for how it engages its clients as well as its approach to delivering solutions that specifically address the business challenges confronting its clients. Our structured approach to solutions delivery allows for the effective alignment of ABX business solutions with our clients' expectations.  This approach is comprised of two fundamentally important aspects of solutions formulation and implementation. 

The first deals with the approach for engaging and interacting with the client.  It speaks to how the client is brought into the overall solutions development process and how that process is made meaning to them.  Additionally, it is concerned with the manner by which the client is kept abreast of all material project considerations.  At ABX, we refer to these fundamentally important considerations as the “4 D’s”:

Deliverables: The actual business solution and its associated model(s) and documentation.

Dollars:           Estimates of project costs and resources (staffing, equipment, etc.).

Deadlines:     Project schedules including all critical project milestones.

Dialogue:       Project status reporting and issues management.

Through ABX’s Structured Client Engagement Process, our standard approach to working with our clients, both ABX and our clients are allowed the initiate an engagement with a common frame-of-reference for what the desired outcomes of our business partnership are to be. Along the way, ABX works with the client in a direct collaborative manner to understand all critical decision points, milestones, and deliverables necessitated by the project. These are identified, discuss and mutually agreed upon at the very outset of the project engagement. The following process flow depicts, at a high level, ABX’s approach to client engagement as well as its corresponding major informational components.

The second aspect of ABX’s solutions delivery method is concerned the manner by which the actual business solution is developed and implemented to resolve the business problem(s) that confront the client.  Here the focus is on gaining an understanding of the actual business challenge  as well as performing an analysis to determine what dimensions of the client’s business require adjustment in an effort to formulate a solution.  Further, once a detail requirement specification is completed, the proposed business solution must be modeled/documented, implemented in the client business environment, and evaluated (post-implementation) to ensure it effectiveness and efficiency (and, if necessitated, be refined or adjusted to enhance them)

Each of these critical activities are addressed within the ABX Structured Solutions Delivery Methodology which is segmented into four (4) major phases:

Project Initiation – Understand the actual business issue(s), the feasibility of resolving it, and establish the scope of what is required for its effective resolution.

Requirement Analysis – Examine and analyze the client’s existing business model as related to its people, processes and technology in an effort to identify and document, at a detail level, a comprehensive specification of the business requirements.

Solutions Formulation – Utilizing the aforementioned requirements specification to identify adjustments to the client’s existing business model to resolve the stated business problem.

Execution – Here all of the previous analysis and planning converge into the actual implementation of the optimal solution to the stated business problem. The solution is modeled, implemented the client’s business environment, reviewed and evaluated to ensure its effectiveness and efficiency.

Through its Structured Solutions Delivery Methodology, ABX utilizes a highly disciplined approach to satisfying our client business requirements in manner that is both flexible and predictive.

Together these two dimensions of ABX’s strategic approach to solutions delivery combine to allow us to formulate and implement business solutions, for our client organizations, that enhance their capability to achieve their mission-critical objectives and ultimately their vision of the of what their organization aspires to be.