CBF Consulting is an innovative firm established to offer you a more inventive method of gathering requirements and information for all of your projects and the value behind them before engaging in vendor and tool selection to achieve your project goals.

Too often, a corporation sets improvement goals and brings in vendors to assist in reaching those goals. The goals become shaped to what the vendor can offer – often to ensure vendor selection and increase the vendor”s profitability; when, in fact, the corporation itself could have developed a strong set of requirements for the project, requiring the vendor to show why they are the most competitively priced and how they can best meet the business objectives.

Developing a strong set of requirements is an art form that often takes years of experience to perfect. Most consulting firms charge between $15,000 and $200,000 or more to develop requirements for you, and all too often they are led by a vendor who is desperate to make the sale.

CBF Consulting, Inc. brings a fresh approach to the conventional requirements gathering process. We have created targeted, user-friendly courses to help you gather and define your requirements and develop a business case to justify the project. And, we have performed the due diligence to back up the business case! Read the rest of this entry »