Who We Serve
QTI serves Federal, state, and local government agencies, institutes
of higher education, school districts, and large not-for-profit
organizations who want to define their missions and achieve
their goals. If you are in executive management and want to
develop proactive leadership and set new directions, we'd be
honored to help you serve your constituency.
How QTI Works With You
QTI offers the same services to the public sector that we offer
the Fortune 1000, only at a considerably reduced rate. We interview
you and your team to define the most important objectives and
issues, then design a custom solution that uses your staff with
QTI in a support role. We leverage your organization's experience
and help you transform it into expertise.
QTI Services for Government, Education, and Not-for-Profit
Organizations
We facilitate strategic planning, develop project plans, provide
project management training, and conduct leadership development
programs.
- Facilitation of strategic planning meetings. Working
with your leadership team or with your entire management team,
we help you define vision, mission, and values, and then bring
that down to prioritized objectives that can be implemented
through projects.
- Training in project management. We can train your
entire management staff and your team leaders to get it
done right! We customize our core project management
training to your institution, then deliver the classes
at your site,
usually in a two-day or three-day lecture format with
class exercises.
- Project management consulting. We can help you perform
initial planning, kick off a major project or program,
or rescue a project in trouble.
If you are interested in these services, please Contact QTI
Case Study 1: Project Rescue
The Crisis. A Federal agency was rolling out 3,000 new computers
to all employees in two office towers. Halfway through the
deployment, they discovered they were in big trouble. Half
of the computers didn't work at all. The other half had numerous
problems. QTI had helped with planning an earlier project
and provided training, so they called us for an Independent
Verification & Validation
(IV&V), a diagnosis of what was going wrong.
How QTI worked with the team. QTI was both cooperative
and independent. We worked cooperatively with the consulting
firm and government
staff to define problems and propose solutions. At the same
time, we prepared a report of all issues to the government
that was
independent and unbiased. In two weeks, Sid Kemp, President
and Senior Consultant for QTI, identified 22 major issues,
and the
team resolved several of them and started working on the rest.
Over the next three months, the team of government workers
and consulted completed the recommendations in QTI's report
and delivered
the project successfully.
Results. A project with a budget of over $3,000,000 that
would have been a total loss was rescued for a cost of under
$20,000.
In addition, the new cooperative work approach improved the
relationship between the agency and its computer services vendor
for the next
several projects, including a crucial Y2K deployment.
