CellStream's Technology Consulting Services

Business Plan/Business Case Development and Analysis

Once a business case has been accepted, a complimentary and confirming project plan must be assembled and - most importantly - agreed by all.  So many times we see great plans poorly executed due to lack of buy-in and trust.  See your plan falling apart?  We can come in, analyze and - most important - advise course of corrective action.

Almost every one of our consultants has been individually responsible for very large budget programs or companies.  We are experienced with Venture Capital firms and processes, and offer tools to help every business manager succeed.

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Competitive Analysis

Our experience has demonstrated that most competitive analysis done today involves what we call "perimeter information".  We see this at telecommunications exhibitions where people stand literally on the edge of the carpet of a booth and write down what they see and read.  Worse yet is the dependency on the Internet as the competitive information source.

CellStream work is done with two drivers: meaningful information provided with respect to intellectual property and non-disclosure.  We have a solid track record of analyzing market issues, competitive strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) of products and programs.  Our diverse and rich market experience can balance the information into rational, meaningful and reasonable recommendations with perspective for your organization.

We have done several competitive analysis projects from which information is aging slightly and we have been given permission to make the reports generally available as samples.  Click on any of the links below to download that sample:

• NFOEC Competitive Intelligence Report
• VON Competitive Intelligence Report
• Supercom Competitive Intelligence Report
• PCIA Competitive Intelligence Report

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Requirements and Architecture Definition

A key service to many of our clients has been the creation and support of creation of product or network functional requirements specifications and/or architecture definitions.  These sometimes come in the forms of presentations, but usually involve requirements documents that are well researched, use industry specifications, and use the appropriate level of graphical content educating while defining.

Too many time projects rush from concept to implementation only to discover that industry unique, major content was either overlooked or not considered.  We are also fully aware that no one wants to wait while large architecture or requirements processes conclude in order to launch into development and implementation.

CellStream has a program where we work side-by-side with your program teams to insure these definitions are robust, accurate, and timely.  We bring broad market knowledge and competitive insight to the process.  A good example of this is how we can help collect and process industry information to meet your market requirement/product specification process.

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Design Support

Delivery of technical development programs on schedule, and on budget, can be accomplished - albeit not very often.  Some programs boast on-time performance after a six month schedule-shuffle or a detailed content change delays.  We can provide you with a tool set to properly communicate and manage programs so that schedules and costs are maintained....and if they can't be, why and how to avoid it in the future.  The tool set is simple.  The mental focus and approach is revolutionary.  See how we can help you by contacting us.

Look at these statistics:

• approximately 30% of all projects are cancelled before completion
• only a quarter of all projects are considered successful upon completion
• nearly three quarters of all projects are late and/or over budget
• more than 75% of projects change their scope after the budget and timeframe have been agreed and committed

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RFP Creation and Response Support

The downturn in the telecommunications economy and subsequent slow but steady growth has resulted in severely reduced staffing levels.  This has cut into key, experienced staff resource pools.  Sales personnel are covering more accounts with less time for each.

But even during these challenging times, service providers and enterprises continue to issue studies, RFP's RFI's and RFQ's.  It is critical that during this time everyone is responding with competitive solutions and establish market position when buying does resume.  Using "cookie cutter" responses just does not work.

CellStream Consulting can provide your Technical, Sales and Marketing teams with the necessary knowledge and resources to tender competitive proposals.  We can coordinate multi-departmental efforts easily and privately using our web-based intranet tools.  We also emphasize strategic planning and positioning in creation of tender responses.

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Solutions Brainstorming

Every team and team member has experienced "blockage" - the inability to get past a major roadblock or obstacle.  Sometimes we have found this is caused by a creativity vacuum and other times by exhaustion.  Not being able to see the trees for the forest is an often over-used metaphor for blockage.

Sometimes it is our energy and enthusiasm, other times it is simply our fun and creative approach, but you can count on CellStream consultants to come to the rescue when blockage is holding back your team or project.  We use simple but effective solutions brainstorming techniques to refocus the team, analyze options, and implement solutions to overcome these challenges.

What makes us unique in this area is our willingness to become part of the team to succeed.  CellStream consultants not only facilitate the solution, we help implement it as hands on partners with your team. 

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White Paper, Documentation, and Collateral Creation and Review

Do you already have documents, but need them converted?  No problem.

White Papers and Application Notes

Communicating what your product or service does can be accomplished in a variety of methods.  Name recognition and providing examples of how a product or service works are proven communications methods.

Publishing White Papers on your web site, passing them out to clientele, or presenting them at trade shows are superb tools to aide in these successful methodologies.   CellStream can produce product and application specific documents either in WEB-READY or Word Processing formats so you can enable these methods and take advantage of communicating with your customers.

Check out this example of our work: Quality of Service White Paper

Sales and Marketing Literature

What are your sales people carrying with them?  Do they have the tools to communicate with your customer effectively?  Do the brochures and literature you have today equal or better your competition?  Do they reflect the superior product capabilities and quality you are selling?

 

Any of the questions answered with a 'no' should cause you to consider getting some help and getting it fast.  Outsourcing this effort can lead you to a faster and less expensive solution to your challenges.

 

Composition of articles for the press and/or internal periodicals and magazines

Name recognition.  Displayed knowledge.  Authority.  Communications skills.  These are the essentials in fulfilling your product technical documentation.   Writing articles with clear, concise and accurate words, illustrations, and concepts are the tools for telecommunications professionals.  You can view some of our own articles on this web.

Documentation Review Services

So your team has worked tirelessly to create documents which will be used by your customers.  Who is reviewing those documents?  A 'trial' customer?  Perhaps the concept of having an outside group read and review the documents is an excellent idea, but why do this in front of a customer?  Consider using our experienced staff to do this for you.  CellStream will review, critique, and mark up your documentation BEFORE your customer does.

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Telecommunications and Technology Graphics and Animation

CellStream offers state of the technology graphics and animation services to clients in the legal, venture capital, and communications industries.  More information can be provided by contacting us below.

To download a sample of our graphics capability, click here.  Simply save this file to your hard disk and when the download is complete, double click on it.  You may resize the window once the animation has started.

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