| One of the guiding principles behind the design of the Sterna Business Positioning System (“BPS”) was that of rapid implementation and the delivery of business value within the second week of implementation. A true revolution.
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The Sterna BPS platform is architected to enable rapid implementation and maximum flexibility for ongoing maintenance. Furthermore, Sterna Technologies provides an implementation methodology and best practices that complement the technology platform, ensuring that our professional services organization and network of implementation partners are equipped to successfully deliver upon our promise, time and time again |
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The Sterna BPS platform is architected to enable rapid implementation and maximum flexibility for ongoing maintenance. Furthermore, Sterna Technologies provides an implementation methodology and best practices that complement the technology platform, ensuring that our professional services organization and network of implementation partners are equipped to successfully deliver upon our promise, time and time again.
Industry-specific best practices are captured in Sterna Packaged Libraries, a broad set of predefined business schemas, mathematical models, and graphical Business Views. The Sterna Packaged Libraries are leveraged during the implementation life cycle for the rapid assembly of Sterna BPS solutions.
At Sterna Technologies we believe in full transparency towards our customers. We utilize Sterna BPS to monitor the progress of all of our ongoing Sterna BPS projects; we call this Sterna on Sterna, or “SOS”. We provide our customers with access to SOS, such that each customer has full visibility to their respective project progress details.
The Sterna BPS “Feed-forward” implementation methodology lends its name from the field of System Dynamics, which is also the basis for the entire Sterna BPS solution and approach. Feed-forward is described in terms of reaction to change, quick response, future-based and dynamic.
The Sterna Feed-Forward implementation methodology is iterative in nature, each iteration having four steps, as described below. An iteration of the project is typically completed within 1-6 weeks, is packaged as a deliverable, and deployed to the business users for production use.
During this phase, which typically lasts for 2-5 days, a Sterna strategic business consultant performs a high-level assessment of those operational activities (having financial impact) that will be captured in the current iteration. Working with the customer’s senior management, the relevant organization’s Business Communities are mapped, and main dependencies between them defined. Sterna consultants work with the customer’s management team in workshop-driven meetings to review the contents of relevant Sterna Packaged Libraries and to assess their fit for implementation within the customer’s business environment. | 
