Me and several other Microsoft employees have been teaming up to start our own consultancy firm. The main goal is to offer high quality work for a substantially lower cost than Microsoft. The problem is we all have quite a lot of skills on our plates which makes it hard to pin point the focus of our business. I don’t want to overload our customers which long service lists as this becomes a turn off for many.
Any thoughts on how we can reduce our service list?
Here’s roughly what we have now:
- AI and Machine learning
- Data insights and analytics
- Data quality assurance
- Optimize infrastructure and deployment for cost efficiency.
- Moving systems to the cloud and scale.
- Architecture Reviews to Improve system performance and scalability.
- Improve security
- Develop proof-of-concepts for new tech.
- Integrating multiple solutions for efficient workflows.
- Training staff in various technologies
- Application and database performance reviews.
I also rather remove as much technical drivel as possible, and this is already a “simplified” list.
What do you think?
I read another post of yours. I definitely would take some time to do some market research on those services, industries and target markets.
I would make a list of what you guys do the best and make a list of the market for each product. Is this service needed? By whom?
Then I would connect the two lists and see where those areas overlap.