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BLUEPRINTING Our blueprints visually memorialize your

organization’s technological state in an accurate, intuitive, and readily accessible framework so

that informed decisions can be made.

www.tricorpstechnologies.com 405.359.3910

A BLUEPRINT IS A VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF YOUR ORGANIZATION’S SOFTWARE PORTFOLIO THAT ENABLES YOU TO MAKE INFORMED TECHNOLOGICAL DECISIONS.

HERE’S WHY BLUEPRINTING IS IMPORTANT: ¨ Businesses need clear and informative visuals to plan for

necessary technology changes and improvements. ¨ Executives need a solid understanding of how

technology changes will affect critical areas of technology systems.

¨ Blueprints provide a common language that bridges the gap between IT and business team.

¨ Blueprints memorialize the technology you have available for new employees and vendor relationships.

¨ The knowledge that your IT team has needs to be fully and properly documented in the event that they should ever leave your organization.

BLUEPRINTING

TCT offers an exclusive process to build your blueprints. We offer three levels of visualizations based on the needs of your organization.

TriCorps Technologies// Blueprinting

THE VALUE OF BLUEPRINTS VISUAL LANGUAGE

Consider a home remodel project. Before you knock out a wall you need to know some information.

¨ What’s the wall made of? ¨ Is there electricity or wiring within? ¨ Are there plumbing considerations? ¨ Is the wall load bearing?

This simple blueprint may not be sufficient. You might need more information.

There are various levels of detail available for builders, plumbers, contractors, architects and homeowners. Your enterprise architecture should have comparable documentation. In many organizations, critical knowledge resides only in the brains of select technologists.

Blueprinting your technology at the level(s) you need in your organization provides knowledge enabling executives and technologists to work together and make wise strategic decisions.


LEVEL 1 VISUALIZATION ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE Visualization of your organization's software portfolio that identifies the primary, secondary, and tertiary applications with in your organization to illustrate their inefficiencies, redundancies, financial ramifications, and process efforts.

PRIMARY AUDIENCE: Business Owner/Executive Level PURPOSE: To support budgets, discuss legacy conversion, and help the business to understand their Enterprise Architecture. PROCESS & DELIVERY: We facilitate a series of information gathering processes using a combination of digital tools and meetings conducted in-person or remotely. We conclude by delivering a high-resolution PDF output, a large format print of the finished blueprint, as well as the editable software portfolio spreadsheet we built during the process together.

THREE LEVELS OF BLUEPRINTS


LEVEL 2 VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE ATTRIBUTES + DATA Visualization of your software portfolio, identifying the primary, secondary, and tertiary applications with in your organization to illustrate their inefficiencies, redundancies, financial ramifications, and process efforts while also illustrating critical characteristics of your core software platforms, processes, and data integrations.

PRIMARY AUDIENCE: Business Owner/Executive Level, and IT team. PURPOSE: To bridge the gap between the business and IT in understanding which software platforms have integrated dependencies (data, flow) and the health attributes of each software ranging from support to disaster readiness. PROCESS & DELIVERY: We facilitate a series of information gathering processes using a combination of digital tools and meetings conducted in-person or remotely. We conclude by delivering a high-resolution PDF output, a large format print of the finished blueprint(s), as well as the editable software portfolio spreadsheet. This process involves more time for both parties and results in a more complex but informative diagram set which documents critical details around your technology status.


LEVEL 3 VISUALIZATION WORKING PORTFOLIO SCHEMATICS A series of working, interactive schematics that represent each software within your organization's portfolio by focusing on the attributes, processes, and data integrations allow you to interact with the visual outputs.

PRIMARY AUDIENCE: IT / Technology Team PURPOSE: To provide organization’s IT personnel an enterprise software portfolio tool that allows them to track, review, and interact with attributes, functions, issues, and integrations of each software. PROCESS & DELIVERY: In a manner similar to Level 1 and 2, we complete intense data gathering, however we complete a more in-depth, hands-on with your team. We can come to your location to understand the innermost characteristics of your software. We fully document all Primary and Secondary software platforms and capture numerous properties around each to facilitate full IT engagement. These schematics are delivered in an interactive Visio document which we consider to be a “living and breathing” tool for your technology team. Once developed, these documents become a foundational piece of your technology governance and serve as an excellent disaster recovery tool to combat any churn of your technology team and prevent valuable institutional knowledge from escaping with retirements and career moves.


WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?

1// VISUALIZE It’s important to visualize elements of an organizations technology so they can understand how changes will affect other technology areas.

2// COMMUNICATE Blueprints and diagrams provide a common visual language, which aids in communication between IT and the business.

3// DOCUMENT Documentation of what you own, what you have purchased or what you have built needs to be done at the appropriate level to facilitate internal conversations around technology decisions.

4// RETAIN When IT professionals or other high level leave your organization, it’s critical that their knowledge does not leave with them. Blueprints help you institutionalize the knowledge of your people so it lives on beyond the tenure of your team.

4 Common Reasons Blueprints Aren’t Done

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1. TRIAGE MODE Forever in firefighting mode, rarely in Fire Prevention Mode

2. LIMITED IT PERSONNEL Almost all IT departments are busy, documentation is easy to overlook

3. LACK OF UNDERSTANDING If you haven’t seen or used blueprints, you do not grasp their value

4. SIMPLE IGNORANCE Nobody on the Business (Non-IT) Side of the organization knows to ask


WE FACILITATE A SIMPLE PROCESS TO HELP YOU INSTITUTIONALIZE THE CONCEPT OF BLUEPRINTING INTO YOUR ORGANIZATION.

c First, together we need to identify which level of blueprints are appropriate for your needs. We can provide educational materials to support this effort and help your team make this decision and together, build a topography that will translate well to your own culture and needs.

c Next, we provide simple data collection tools and work with your team to build an inventory of information. We help you accumulate and structure data around your enterprise architecture so we can visualize it appropriately. We are experienced in this process and commonly help teams use the tools you already have in your environment to make this process move swiftly and efficiently.

Call 405.359.3910 or visit

tricorpstechnologies.com today.

NEXT STEPS HOW TO GET STARTED


PARTNERING WITH TRICORPS TECHNOLOGIES

WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO WE ARE INSPIRED BY TECHNOLOGY, LEARNING, AND POSITIVE GROWTH.

First and foremost, we love educating leaders. It’s what gets us out of bed in the

morning; it’s our shot of coffee on the way to work. Seeing the organizations that

we help thrive, even under challenging circumstances, is exhilarating. We believe

in technology. We understand its power to transform. We are also aware that this

transformation can either be a positive one or a negative one. We aren’t technology

cheerleaders; we are technology

teachers. We want technology to be

a force for good in both the

organizations that we work with and

in the broader world. That’s why we

do what we do. We are passionate

about teaching technology so that it

can provide a positive influence on

organizations.

We are passionate about teaching

technology so that it can provide a positive

influence on organizations.

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OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU

// We are committed to providing value to you and to being a positive force in your organization’s advancing journey forward. We understand our duty, and we do not take our mission lightly. We have rules that we have imposed on ourselves as a reminder of the importance of our mission and our responsibility to our clients: // We will do no harm: We will not cause disruption, distraction, or drama while building solid relationships within all layers of your organization, and we will never become a part of internal politics. We will also honor confidentiality when working with the entire team. // We will always charge a fair amount for services rendered: We always consider client return on investment when finding agreement on rates. We also will keep expenses to a minimum by traveling conservatively. // We teach you to fish rather than fish for you: We are committed to completely teaching you how to be successful with technology because we want your organization to grow long after our engagement is over. // We will always be frank with advice: Maturing with technology is never easy. That is why we are dedicated to recommending you the most honest advice, even if that advice is difficult to deliver. Sensitive topics will always be handled with complete discretion and care. // We will always provide top quality work: From our ideas to the way we present these ideas, our work will always be above industry standards. // The work we do lives on: All forms, documents, and tools which we provide remain available for your team to continue to use within your organization. When this project is closed, the knowledge gained and resources we worked on together remain behind and can mature with your organization.

ABOUT TRICORPS TECHNOLOGIES

TriCorps Technologies is a technology-strategy firm with corporate offices in Oklahoma City, OK and resources spread across the United States. We have been helping organizations become world class at leveraging technology to create competitive advantage for more than eight years and have years beyond this in collective experience across our consultants. We work with organizations in many industries, from medium-sized to multi-billion-dollar international entities. Our focus is simple: develop winning strategies, educate clients on market-leading best practices, support them in implementing these strategies to gain competitive advantages and sustainable results. Our team has marketing-savvy technologists with a deep understanding in business operations, sales, and management. We work to help clients identify the weaknesses in their skills, processes, culture, or infrastructure, and then assist in closing those gaps. Organizations must continually improve how they balance the use of technology with the human element of business processes. Mastery in this quest will lead to amplified profits and long-term prosperity. The economy will favor leaders who learn to be world class at executing on thought-leading strategies and will punish those who believe they can tread water. This is the life-long mission of TCT – to help clients achieve a high level or Technology Mastery. We all benefit when people use technology in more powerful ways.

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