Consulting and Analytical Services

The deployment of an effective information management solution requires a complete understanding of the business processes it is intended to serve.  The information flows and important “vital signs” of a business are of particular importance.  These concepts allow us to measure a business’ health and manage it intelligently with confident, data-supported decision-making ability.   

Stride offers its clients expertise in the areas of workflow management, data flow optimization and the implementation of information technology “best practices”.  Our experience allows us to grasp complicated and often disorganized processes and present a clear and concise plan to our clients.  This plan then forms the basis for an invaluable “roadmap” to the solution.   

We use the type of proven project-management methodology that is required to help you acquire, manage and USE the data that drives your business.   We work with our clients to meet their goals and optimize their overall strategy towards data management.    

Information management projects inevitably involve stakeholders of varying degrees of skill, responsibility, and understanding.  In turn, each of these players brings to the table a highly differing set of wants and needs.  Our ability to manage all of these considerations and bring everything together into a solid, sustainable solution allows Stride’s clients to improve or replace mission-critical systems while minimizing disruption to their business. 

Effective Application of Technology

Deploying technology to automate bad process only perpetuates the business’ problems, and is a common mistake that many companies make.  Before any technology is deployed to solve a problem, we ensure that both we and our client share an in-depth understanding of the situation and the related processes and workflow.  This understanding is gained through a strictly managed analytical process, and is independent of technology and unbiased.   It is only after this analytical work is completed and the problem is clearly understood that candidate solutions can be identified.

 Having identified candidate solutions, we help our clients evaluate the alternatives.  This typically involves making decisions that are outside of the comfort zone of the mining professional, and may seem technically daunting to them.  Stride has the ability to guide our clients through this decision-making process and make recommendations based on our experience and modern best-practices.  Whether the client faces a classic “build or buy” decision or needs help with the selection of software development platforms, database management systems, off-the-shelf solutions or even hardware, Stride helps simplify these complicated decisions. This is always done by making sound recommendations to our clients based on industry “best practices”.