An Ecosystem View of Product Data
Short-Term Projects create short-term results that are a fix for small business problems. Our Ecosystem Methodology solves large, complex product data problems that give you long-term value. Starting before discovery, TrailBreakers wants to help you understand how vision across your ecosystem benefits your business.
The TrailBreakers Methodology
Our engagements do not start at the start of a project. It starts with a conversation to understand your business, your go-to-market, and what you want to achieve. This conversation leads to an alignment session with leadership on corporate vision.
Every step of the process revolves around minimizing risk, reducing complexity, following data best practices, and maximizing value.
A project cannot be successful without an assessment plan to monitor, iterate, and expand. Our value maximization plans give you a roadmap for success, even if we’re not part of the longer-term plan.
Each subsequent project is validated against the corporate vision to ensure it is on the roadmap, meets corporate goals, and has measurable success criteria.
Data First
TrailBreakers applies a 6 Pillar Approach to ensure the entire ecosystem creates and maintains data with 6 pillars of data quality in mind. The data has to come first to make your project succeed.
Trailbreakers also understands that data webs, data roundabouts, and data voids kill data quality. Our job is not just to fit your data into a system, but fit your data into your project goals and growth plans.
The 6 Pillars Approach
Complete, Accurate, Contextual, Timely, Consistent, and Cost-Effective are the pillars we strive to achieve in every project. Looking at 1 or 2 of these pillars is not good enough: You can be 100% completely inaccurate or 100% accurate but too late.
Ensuring that the data quality is not just protected but the goal of the project is how we approach every client. Understanding how these pillars affect your remediation plans, your data storage, and your process should not be things you think about after the project is complete.TrailBreakers can help you understand these challenges.
Understanding Your Corporate Vision
Before presenting any solution, TrailBreakers experts will work with your team to understand your overall corporate vision, data roadmap, and project goals. If the project goals don’t align to the corporate vision, we will recommend changes to reach alignment. TrailBreakers doesn’t engage in projects just to implement a project: We always want to reach an alignment with all your goals, not just the project expectations.
Does your company not have a Product Data Vision? We can help you build one. Is your documentation of your ecosystem not documented? We’ll document it for you before you even establish your goals. This is the way it should happen, and we won’t do it a
Discovery, Design, and Rollout
There is no remedy for bad discovery. Discovery takes time, talent, and documentation. Trailbreakers may take longer, but the results speak for themselves.
Complexity breeds failure, so our methodology always assumes configuration over customization. Narrowing the points of failure without reducing the scope or the results is our primary goal.
Testing and support are also key elements for success. Whether you need hypercare or just standby support, TrailBreakers is there.
Assess to Iterate
Every project needs a set of KPIs to validate success. Our KPIs aren’t built on generic calculators that don’t represent reality. We work to define real value, and align that value to future projects. One success is the catalyst for more growth opportunities.
Every follow-up project has to align with the corporate vision. Our experts work with your teams to identify, validate, and scope new opportunities he align to the corporate vision, require a change to the corporate vision, or need to be abandoned as outside to the corporate vision.
TrailBreakers’ Model is Different
You see the pattern with every consultancy you work with: Their Return-On-Investment calculators spit out amazing numbers, they are already proposing the next project before the current one is complete, and they are impossible to reach when you have a problem. That feeling that you are just a number? That’s because you are… A line item on a Profit & Lose statement.
TrailBreakers is different. We don’t work with ROI calculators and their imaginary numbers. We do the hard calculations to determine a real ROI statement. We work with you to align any future projects with an overall corporate vision that we’ll help you build. You have direct communication paths to everyone on the project team, including our CEO’s direct phone number.
Traditional consultancies build in risk. warranty, insurance, and other costs into your Statement-of-Work that artificially inflate your bill. They try to get you to sign open-ended T&M contracts that limit their exposure while maximizing their profits.
Trailbreakers works through the budgeting process with your team, is transparent about our costs and risks, and matches the contract to the expectations of the project, not the expectations of our CFO. We carefully analyze scope and risk to let you know the proper timelines, cots, and outcomes so you can make the right decision upfront, not pay for dozens of change requests as the project progresses.
We want to be different. Contact us to find out how.
Let’s Work on your Next Product Data Project Together
If you’re looking for a partner for your next project, TrailBreakers would like to talk to you. Our first interaction starts with a conversation to understand your goals and objectives, and ends with an understanding of where you want your company to be. We never pressure anyone into a project because, after the conversation, you will know if you want to work with us. Contact us to see if we are the partner you need.