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Our Capabilities > IT Professional Services

Fulcrum’s IT professional services capability was introduced in 2004 based upon growing customer demand for Fulcrum resources..  Our reputation for providing unmatched management consulting expertise became the basis for building recruiting infrastructure and quality measures to support an IT professional services offering.

Whether you need staffing support for a month or for a year, we understand you need more than someone who simply has the business or technical ability to get the job done. You expect someone you can count on to take your work as seriously as you do. Understanding your business, your culture, and your needs is our business. Fulcrum Consulting has a national network of highly qualified business and technical professionals ready to go to work for you now.

At Fulcrum Consulting we strive to understand our client’s future IT initiatives and places where we might be utilized to support successful project completion. Our teams of local, regional and national recruiters are informed of potential project staffing needs, enabling them to work proactively to build a virtual bench of available, capable and experienced consultants to staff our clients’ upcoming projects.

Our professional services group is focused on providing highly qualified business and technical professionals and building long term relationships with both clients and consultants. We've developed a reputation for customer service that's second to none. Let us put our experience and expertise to work for you. Fulcrum offers staffing expertise in the following areas:

Project Management

Fulcrum Consulting offers customers seasoned and effective leaders to manage their most important business and IT initiatives. We’ve gained an unmatched reputation both by customers and consultants because we capture and manage to customer expectations and ensure we are aligned with the skills and goals of our consultants. Our commitment is to deliver the highest level of service at market rates within the geographies we occupy.

If you are about to launch a project you may need the right point person with the leadership skills to get the project done —on time, within budget, and aligned to overall business direction. Or, you may have a need to get a project back on track —Fulcrum’s Program and Project Management capability is your answer.

Fulcrum Consulting Program and Project Managers take an experienced approach to managing projects and mitigating risk, whether large or small. They focus on aligning project deliverables with your expectations, managing scope, prioritizing activity completion and staffing the project with skilled, experienced project support personnel. They’re also experienced and flexible enough to work according to your methodology and/or Fulcrum best practices to get the job done right.

Program Management: Fulcrum Consulting Program Managers are responsible for the successful completion of a major business or technology transformation initiatives. Responsibilities of a Program Manager may include managing the delivery of multiple projects, developing cost benefit analyses, communicating program status to executives, negotiating with vendors, optimizing the use of resources across multiple projects, defining project process, policies and managing overall profitability. Typically an enterprise wide program also involves a certain amount of process change and change management skills; the Fulcrum Program Managers leverage these skills to ultimately ensure your programs success.

Project Management: Fulcrum Project Managers ensure that a defined scope of work meets or exceeds the deliverable expectations of the customer. Project manager responsibilities may include developing project plans, estimating activity durations, managing team members, identifying and mitigating project risks, communicating status to appropriate stakeholder levels, identifying and resolving issues, and controlling project profitability and scope.

Portfolio Management: Fulcrum Consulting Portfolio Managers are seasoned Program Managers and Business Analysts who have experience designing, facilitating development and jointly implementing portfolio management processes and tools. Our Portfolio Management processes allow our customers to forecast, manage projects across the organization, ensuring that budgeting, prioritization, resource staffing and the quality and timeliness of delivery are consistent across the organization.

Business Analysis

Business Analysis: Fulcrum’s Business Analysts are responsible for the business deliverables of a project. Business analyst responsibilities typically include developing business requirements and use case scenarios, conducting business process models, creating the application functional design, prototyping, planning acceptance testing, developing the user training program and facilitating meetings. Representative skills include business analysis, logical thinking, solution design, data modeling, quality assurance, subject matter expertise and rudimentary technical skills.

Business Architecture: Business Architecture consultants create high-level business solutions that align to corporate strategy. Activities include boardroom facilitation, organizational and business process redesign, generating business cases, organizational change management, strategic visioning and planning. Skills required are industry knowledge and best practices, presentation skills, logical and creative thinking, leadership and exceptional interpersonal skills.

Business Process Change: Business Process Change consultants focus on understanding current business processes. They analyze these processes to determine where improvements, enhancements or the application of technology can increase operational effectiveness or bottom line impact. Activities include facilitation, process and information modeling, statistical analysis, and “to be” solution design. Skills and experience include knowledge of industry best practice methodologies including Six Sigma, lean process, RUP, use case analysis, modeling tools, process diagramming techniques, industry knowledge and best practices.

Systems Integration

Fulcrum Consulting deploys technical consultants with the right mix of skills to tackle the most complex technology projects. Application development projects typically involve the use of .NET, JAVA, VB and mainframes skills. Our consultants also have the necessary business knowledge to make a meaningful contribution to our client’s project.

Fulcrum Consulting is also called upon to provide expertise on IT Infrastructure initiatives. Typical engagements include network design, implementation, administration, security and help desk support.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Consultants skilled with ERP strategy formulation, package selection assistance, implementation planning, business process impact analysis, configurations, conversions and application training. Fulcrum Consulting is a leader in providing high performance ERP professionals to our clients through a staff augmentation cost structure.

ERP Integration: We have consultants skilled in ERP applications, including PeopleSoft®, SAP®, Oracle® and JD Edwards®.

Business Intelligence

Consultants experienced in analyzing information contained in data warehouses to help “the business” get an accurate picture of economic conditions, competitive forces and related information critical to supporting the organization.

Quality Assurance

We have consultants who can help with testing needs including planning of testing strategy, implement QA processes and procedures, developing related plans, and managing groups of testers. Our QA consultants have a combination of hands-on experience, or experience utilizing automated testing tools like WinRunner, LoadRunner, TestDirector, and QuickTest Professional.