Content Life-cycle Consulting is led by Barry Schaeffer, a pioneering planner, change manager and project leader. Barry has more than 45 years experience in the structured information and content management fields, including work with SGML beginning in 1979 and with XML from its first publication in 1996.
He has led planning and development of major automation projects for clients of all sizes, from small firms on tight budgets to the largest firms in multiple industries and government agencies at federal and state levels, With ClCC, you get not only deep expertise in the techniques and technology of the information life cycle, you'll work with a team that has years in the trenches, successfully meeting real challenges for real clients.
Today's information world demands constant improvement in the information and services you provide to your audiences... citizens, clients, prospects, students or what have you. Keep up or be left behind!
While a common response to this growing demand is bigger and better technology, success or failure is likely to be determined more by how well an organization, staff and management strategies can handle the impact than by the technology it chooses or how much is spent on it.
Indeed, if you get the organizational and human parts right, a wide range of technology and costs can be successful, but if you don't, no amount or technology or money will guarantee success.
Every new information product and service is likely to create an entirely new set of challenges for your organization, generating a virtual wave of impact throughout your organization, budgets and staff, often requiring new skills, more complex authoring processes, more or different funding in the groups that create and manage your information content... and the list goes on, right up to the executive decisions about where your funding will be set and committed; who gets to make key decisions and who has to go along.
Your most effective way of avoiding these pitfalls and assuring success is to have someone on your team who has successfully faced the human and organizational challenges that will confront you; someone who knows what works and what doesn't; knows how your organization and staff will react to change; and knows how to keep your effort moving in the right direction, anticipating and dealing with challenges as they arise and, when appropriate, dealing with a vendor community in which every candidate believes his solution to be just what you need.
With CLcC on your team, you can count on the experience you need, from strategic planning to "in the trenches" change and project management, backed by a unique and unequalled commitment to your success.