Services:

2 Cats assists clients with translating ideas into action by applying expertise in the areas of:

Strategic Information Technology Planning

2 Cats provides strategic and tactical information systems planning services that focus on assisting clients in formulating strategies and developing action plans for implementing information technology and associated support processes to meet business needs. Our typical strategic planning process includes:

  • Situational assessment (current situation)
  • Business and technology goals alignment
  • Information technology governance framework
  • Strategic planning
  • Implementation planning
  • Plan implementation support

System Functional Requirements

2 Cats provides comprehensive information technology system requirements services. Our A4 approach ensures that a proposed system will incorporate the broad business context and long-term strategic needs that the system will support. This area of service includes components such as:

  • Functional requirements analysis and definition
  • Business area analysis including workflow requirements and process improvements
  • Alternatives identification and analysis
  • Systems analysis
  • Interface and data exchange analysis

Information Technology Acquisition Support

2 Cats assists state and local organizations with the planning and acquisition of new or replacement information systems and resources. This service allows organizations to benefit from our extensive experience in identifying requirements and working with vendor-specific areas. This area of service includes components such as:

  • Acquisition plans
  • RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs
  • Contract development and negotiation
  • Business plan development
  • RFP Competitor analysis
  • Outsourcing strategy and analysis

Information Technology Services and Operations

2 Cats assesses current information technology services and operations in order for clients to improve on the delivery of information technology. This includes reviewing management and organization structures, policies, system development services, and operations. This area of service includes such components as:

  • Design and implementation of governance and management structures
  • IT policy analysis
  • Operations review and enhancement
  • Process improvements and redesign
  • Service delivery and project management practices

Archives, Records and Document Management

2 Cats recognizes that a comprehensive archives, records or document management program improves access to information, reduces storage volume, minimizes litigation risk, and ensures regulatory compliance. This area includes such services as:

  • Needs assessment including review of records inventory, workflow, policies, and procedures (Current Situation)
  • Records inventory of hardcopy and electronic record types
  • Customized record classification scheme included typology, thesaurus, and categorization
  • Legally credible records retention schedule
  • Records management plan, policies, and procedures
  • Documented procedures for the creation, storage, and disposition of records
  • Program implementation support
  • Application of retention schedule to historical records
  • Application of retention policies to electronic records
  • Automation strategies for hardcopy records
  • Functional requirements definition for RMS (records management system) or EDMS (enterprise document management system) including workflow and imaging

Emergency Operations and Business Continuity Planning

2 Cats assists clients to assess and plan for disasters helping them to identify and mitigate risks and vulnerabilities from both external and internal threats through planning and documentation. Response planning identifies those activities conducted during and immediately following an emergency that are designed to minimize the effects of the emergency and to limit the impact on the business, surrounding community and environment. Services offered include:

  • Vulnerability Assessment - Licensed Trainer, Risk Assessment Methodology for Water (RAM-WTM) Sandia Laboratories
  • Impact Analysis
  • All Hazards Planning
  • Emergency Operations Plans that meet FEMA or SEMS guidelines
  • Emergency Response Plans that meet EPA guidelines
  • Business Continuity Plans

Asset Management and Configuration Control

2 Cats provides strategic asset management assessment, planning and program development services that enable clients to manage their facility assets and infrastructure from original design and construction, subsequent design changes, and routine corrective or preventive maintenance replacements and changes due to obsolescence. Our configuration management approach ensures that changes due to engineering design, procurement (obsolescence or equivalency), work management repair or maintenance are identified, evaluated, and incorporated into appropriate databases (e.g., manufacturer/model) and design drawings. To help optimize equipment life cycles, an analysis is performed of the change proposals including any redesign and reconfiguration options. Asset management and configuration control services include:

  • Needs assessment including current asset management policies and procedures, and interfaces with engineering, maintenance, materials, production or operations, and document management (current situation)
  • Asset management plan to implement asset management policies and procedures
  • Design change control policies and procedures to manage vendor substitutions, equivalency evaluations, obsolescence, engineering design changes
  • Document Control policies and procedures to track and control pending design changes, and as-built documentation
  • Asset inventory and nameplate data collection
  • Customized asset hierarchy, naming conventions, and plant numbering schema
  • Integration plan for asset management data and practices with maintenance work management lifecycle, inventory catalogs (bill of materials), and associated documentation (as-built plant data or vendor submittal drawings, operation and maintenance manuals)
  • Bill of materials for assets (includes interface with inventory and asset data)
  • Functional requirements definition for PDM (product data management), EAM (enterprise asset management) or CMMS (computerized maintenance management system) including interfaces with other technology such as GIS (geographical information system), SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition), process control, and EDMS (enterprise document management system)

Purchasing, Materials Management, Inventory Control

2 Cats develops programs, policies, and strategies to support a client's purchasing and materials management needs. Services provided include:

  • Needs assessment including current policies and procedures, and interfaces with manufacturing or maintenance (current situation)
  • Purchasing, Materials Management and Inventory Control plan to implement management policies and procedures
  • Inventory walkdown and data collection
  • Customized stock descriptions, naming conventions, and numbering schema
  • Bill of materials for assets (includes interface with asset data)
  • Functional requirements definition for procurement, materials management and/or inventory control module including interfaces with other technology such as enterprise asset management (EAM) or computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).

Business Initiatives

2 Cats provides comprehensive analysis and planning services to help organizations identify new business goals and strategies for long-term growth and market success. Our process guides your team through a series of facilitated workshops to develop the vision and initiatives required to elevate functional performance. Ownership built during these collaborative efforts establishes the foundation for sustainable change. Our services include:

  • Strategic plan
  • Policy development related to operations, customer service, and technology
  • Process improvement
  • Practice development to support process improvement goals of business practices
  • Performance measurement framework
  • Implementation management to provide both the expertise and the manpower required to implement changes in policy, procedures and systems.

Project Management, Administration and Coordination

2 Cats' task is to represent the interest of the client throughout the project, and to manage the achievement of the project's schedule, quality and budgetary goals. We tailor the scope for each management assignment specifically for our clients and their project needs including:

  • Project management
  • Project coordination
  • Project administration

Meeting Planning and Facilitation

2 Cats' works with the client to understand the objective of the meeting, prepare agendas and activities to accomplish objectives, and then facilitate the meeting.

  • Meeting Plan
  • Agenda
  • Meeting Facilitation

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