Dig·i·tal Van·guard
/ˈdijədl/ /ˈvanˌɡärd/, noun
The individuals, teams, or organizations that are at the forefront of driving and implementing digital transformation. They are the first movers, opening the front door to adopting new technologies, rethinking processes, and reshaping business models to stay competitive in a digital-first world.
Founded in 2024 and based in San Francisco, CA, Front Door Consulting was launched with a goal to provide enterprise technology advisory services to help organizations get started on their transformational journey.
Front Door Consulting brings a unique combination of business, technical and leadership skills used to successfully implement world-class, progressive digital transformation strategies and high-performance teams, leading turnaround efforts and strengthening financial results.
We bring an entrepreneurial leadership style that thrives in dynamically challenging environments requiring focused decision making and helping clients evaluate trends, issues, and challenges and turning them into emerging opportunities.
We lead with empathy meeting our teams, clients and partners where they are. The passion for the work we do drives the enthusiasm for quality and care for our clients.
Business Case & IT Roadmap - We work with your functional and technical teams over the course of 8-12 weeks to create a compelling business case for Enterprise IT projects.
Our approach includes:
Assessing the business need and defining clear objectives and KPIs
Assessing the current state technical footprint of your enterprise applications
Capturing existing costs across technology and people
Estimating software and implementation costs
Developing an indicative IT Implementation Roadmap
Aligning costs/benefits across the roadmap
Outcome: Clearly defined business case with current and future costs with complete cost/benefit analysis.
Software / SI Selection - We help coordinate and facilitate a 12-16 week plan working with the organization, vendors and partners to support an enterprise application evaluation.
Our approach includes:
Functional and technical requirements identification
Demo use case development
RFP development
Software vendor coordination
Vendor demo evaluation and comparison.
Optional: Support vendor negotiations
Outcome: A data-driven evaluation approach ensuring an unbiased and collaborative approach to selecting the best-fit enterprise application for the organization.
Project Mobilization / Management - We’ll help you get started within 4-6 weeks on your enterprise transformation.
Our approach includes:
Development of a 30-60-90 day mobilization plan from project initiation to project design
Identification of key project roles and resources
Onboarding and mobilization of software vendors and system integration partner
Transition of core requirements to system integration partner
Coordination and facilitation of transition workshops
Optional: Interim project leadership support
Outcome: Successfully mobilized project plan and team to support implementation of the enterprise application.
Technical Advisory - We provide executive technical advisory support for digital transformation strategies.
Examples of support services offered:
Validate and confirm organizational goals and objectives
Define an organizational transformation strategy
Align technology initiatives to business objectives
Navigate complex technological landscapes and articulating value propositions
Evaluate business process improvement opportunities and their supporting technology
Provide interim program leadership
Outcome: Developed strategy, alignment of initiatives, value propositions, etc. as agreed upon scope.