PHS Consulting - Developing Ideas

Early stage projects are characterised by aspirations and a shortage of hard facts. The challenge here is to put some flesh on the bones to transform the concept into a workable and informed proposition, together with ideas on how to go about implementing it.

We tackle this by gathering information. Ultimately market and customer requirements must be satisfied but some projects are capability driven. This information is then converted into business proposals and the critical success factors identified,

At this stage it is very easy to be too optimistic — the work has not yet been done to find the barriers, hurdles and risks, this is a preliminary investigation and so inevitably ideas look attractive. The other temptation is to reject the unfamiliar out of hand.