Swift Ascent

We bring the discipline of Engineering to defining and managing the processes, the PMP skills of integrating and managing the total team to a complete plan, and then ultimately the executive management experience to improve both process and individual functions. Coupled with our three decades of managerial and project experience, we are enabled to... bring both a depth and breadth of experience to the Operations Management of a company. The results of our experience allow us to: Evaluate, define or re-engineer overarching Business Processes including: Strategic planning Portfolio Planning and Management Product/Offer Development, and Life Cycle Management Create best in class Metrics and Balanced Score Cards Establish Quality Management systems, including ISO registered processes Coach Directors and above on how to instill functional excellence Establish best in class Portfolio Management techniques Design Stage-Gate processes (even with Agile!) As the world of product development moves to more Agile Methods, and with our deep Agile experience, we are one of the few that can help the definition and deployment of Operational Processes that can both deal with and take advantage of the flexibility and rapid change that Agile brings. The founders of Swift Ascent started their careers in product development and project management. As we learned how to deliver product, we noticed that the product offering was still not rapidly successful in the market. That brought us to the realization that we needed Program Management to ensure that the entire Operational value chain was developed and prepared for the product offering. We therefore became some of the first PMPs and established one of the first PMOs in the industry. We have been complimented in our abilities to: Bridge between technology and business, people and process, and across business functions Provide a rapid and accurate analysis of current practices Create "order from chaos" Guide decision making Apply practical, practiced "plain old" experience We provide ...Read More