Time is a competitive weapon.

Princeton Consultants uses a comprehensive methodology we call RAD (Rapid Action Delivery). RAD unifies the four principle building blocks of business success: strategy, process, organization, and technology.

We use RAD to help organizations rapidly create new processes for situations that demand precise integration of business planning, systems development, and field implementation.

One of the most powerful tools of RAD methodology is the RAD Session—a facilitated, interactive discussion that serves as a springboard to action. The RAD Session brings all the primary stakeholders of a particular initiative together, and using a series of analytical, customized frameworks we help executives gain clarity and consensus, then take decisive action. Princeton's RAD Session whitepaper describes the process in greater detail.

Compared with traditional methods, RAD uses shorter project phases. This brings benefits to the field quickly, then builds incrementally on the established base.

The RAD methodology reflects the new realities in business: speed, cost effectiveness, and quality must all be combined together so that organizations do not have to wait years for competitive improvements.

Characteristics of RAD:

• Small, high-powered teams, with short, phased timeframes
• Simultaneous (rather than sequential) team assignments
• Building block orientation: incremental analysis, design, development, and implementation cycles
• Commitment to flexible, realistic, high quality solutions using a best practices approach
• Time definite deliveries
• Leveraging advanced technologies where appropriate
• Understanding and mastering a turbulent, changing environment

As the world moves faster, the ability to deliver applications rapidly is more than a one-shot campaign. It is an enterprise survival skill.

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