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Nothing changes faster than the World Wide Web and its related Internet and IT technologies. In addition economic, business and socio cultural trends influence each business and its activities.
Every new multi media or IT, Internet technology project should incorporate the latest business and strategy knowledge and use the most advanced and adequate technology in the market.
Foresight stays on top of this dynamic continious technological and business environment changes and assesses the potential of what these technologies and business trends can do and mean for your business. This is our passion.
We deal with it every day. Rely on us to do it for you.
Foresight will help you to fully comprehend the strategic impact of e-business, e-commerce, and multi media solutions.
We show you how to harness technology and creativity to achieve your business goals.
What can we do for you?
What can e-business consulting do for you?
e-business transformation analysis
content management
knowledge management
web site audit
structural web site concept development
e-business transformation analysis
e-business is the transformation of business processes through the use of Internet technologies. This means using technology to transform your business processes such as sales, marketing, purchasing or customer service.
We sit together with you and analyse your company's business processes and the way you interact with customers, competitors or suppliers. This so called value exchange analysis, helps to assess what opportunities lie within the existing relationships of your business.
With the insight of this value exchange analysis we build a scenario analysis with which we assess the concrete opportunities and risks that a transformation of existing business processes/relationships bear for the future of your business.
The scenarios building gives you a possible future and facilitates the discussion of strategic alternatives.
Once you have thoroughly understood the strategic impact we define together with you the e-business strategy, build and implement together with you a successful plan.
Our tailored consulting approach helps pace your business transformation as your distinct needs develop - changing your business to help you compete and succeed in the future.
Talk to us and we provide you with a concept and a cost estimate to show you how we can conduct a value exchange analysis for your company.
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content management
An effective company web presence draws your target audience on your site and also makes them come back. This can only be achieved by a user focused rich and up to date content.
Foresight can develop a content management strategy for your company that enables you to provide adequate content and use software tools with which you can change content fast and cost effective yourself.
Whether you would like to filter industry or product relevant information/news from existing publications on to your web site or produce content specifically for your site Foresight copywriters and consultants can do it for you.
Talk to us and we provide you with a concept and a cost estimate to show you how easy we can make content management for your company.
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knowledge management
To manage the knowledge of your company's employees is today one of the most significant and valuable challenges.
An effective IT and Internet based knowledge management system will make relevant information and expertise instantly accessible throughout your organization.
This will interconnect the "brains" that run your organisation at the speed of light and will significantly improve the pace and quality of decision-making. Knowledge will be shared, and instantly access able. You will move faster and more efficient ahead and hence create a competitive advantage.
Foresight will work with you to build a knowledge-based information network capable of effectively linking your customers, vendors, and employees. This extranet or Web-based knowledge bank will serve as a place for people to work together on projects, manage documents and share information in a collaborative manner.
Our Web technology solutions provide you with:
- Document management
- Workflow management
- Project collaboration and management
- Intelligent search systems
Talk to us and we provide you with a concept and a cost estimate to show you how we can make knowledge management work for your company.
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web site audit
A Web Site Audit is a comparative analysis of a company's own web presence in relation to the web sites of the industry competitors. The audit analyses issues such as.
- Strength and weaknesses of the compared web sites
- Identifies the best current practice on the Web
- Attempts to identify which, if any, strategies are employed by the competition
- Develops a concept of how to improve the companies web site, web strategy in order to stay ahead of the competition.
Talk to us and we provide you with a concept and a cost estimate to show you how a web site audit can help your company staying ahead of the competition.
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structural web site concept development
Analysis:
Defining clear objectives about the purpose(s) of your web presence is the critical first step. Clear and realistic objectives are needed to make your web site a success.
The opportunities for which a web site can be used are very diverse. Everything ranging from lead generation, customer loyalty generation, product support, sales and shop activities, to entertainment.
Depending upon your company and project objectives the purpose and the target audience of your web presence needs to be defined.
Foresight's consultants sit together with you and analyse your companies activities and then step by step develop realistic and scalable objectives with you.
Concept:
After knowing your objectives and your target audience the web site model(s) which need to be employed to reach your goals have to be selected. Each model specifies what you actually put on your web site.
Would you like to provide information and picture material about your products and/or services? create a forum for your target audience, provide support, sell products, or create a platform for your employee's? just to name a few.
In general we differentiate between eight web site models.
| WEBSITE MODELS |
| Advertise |
The Internet-Version of a product company or service brochure |
| Inform |
To provide information regarding products and processes. The context is free of marketing jargon and written to inform and provide the basis for decision making. |
| Guide |
A collection of edited information from different sources regarding a specialised topic or area of interest. |
| Assist |
Offers interactive consultation and advise for clients. To support the client to make complex decision making. |
| Sell |
The Online-Shop. The objective is to sell products or services via a web presence. |
| Support |
The online Hotline to help your clients. Ranging from a collection of help texts to a call button or personal chat with a support employee. |
| Meet |
The online meeting point or forum about a specified topic. A communication and interaction platform. |
| Entertain |
Fun and entertainment |
| Source: Markus Stolpmann, The online Marketing Mix |
The above models are rarely used by itself. It is mostly a combination of models employed.
The different models help to narrow down what your companies web presence should be all about. Which models do you need to reach your objectives? Which content do needs to be on your site? Which functionality does your site need? What should the design look like?
Foresight Consultants will help you to find adequate answers to these questions and develop a concept that suits your company and reaches the defined objectives.
After the concept for your web site is defined, the actual production of the web site can start. Parallel, a web site promotion plan can be developed.
Foresight can develop a marketing/promotion concept to that your web site is connected to your target group in the virtual world? Read more about it in the web promotion section.
The actual web site production starts with a detailed project and work plan in which such issues as the following are addressed.
How much money is needed to reach the objectives
Which and how many people within your organisation are needed
Which technology will be employed
Who will carry out which activities
Realisation:
The transformation of your companies web site concept entails the creation of your web site and the related promotional activities to connect it to your target audience.
The most essential points which Foresight can carry out for you are the following:
- Creation of a graphical interface for your web site
- The coding of the web site including the preparation of the technological tools you desire
- Key word labelling of individual sites
- The registration of a adequate domain (if not already existing)
- Selection of a hosting provider
- The collection of web sites with similar content or target audiences
- The collection of online meeting points and newsgroups which are visited by a similar target audience
- Preparation of the submission to search engines and directories, when ready submission
- Connectivity concept
- Concept of reservation of online and or offline advertising
- Ads and banner concepts and realisation
- Integration of your online with your offline marketing strategy
- The adaptation of communication material in your company such as business cards paper heads, brochures etc
- Testing of the realised web site
- Usability tests, do people of my target audience really find their way through my web site
- Adaptations of the site after the tests.
- Launch of the site
Control:
After the launch of your web site it is important to re-assess the site. To evaluate how does the site perform in relation to the previously defined objectives.
Foresight will look in such issues as Did you really reach more clients?, Did you cut costs in the support?, Did you reach the sales targets? Is your forum meting point accepted by your target audience?
In addition questions like how do your web site visitors navigate through the site? How long do they sty on the web site? Where do most people leaf the site? Which parts of the site are forgotten? From which sites do most of the visitors come from?
The answers to these questions help to further refine your site and adjust it if necessary.
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