Home: Mediation – and Good Relationships

IT-MEDIATOR is a consultancy that:
  • Focuses on the human aspects of your project to achieve success
  • Offers you cost-effective alternatives to costly legal processes
  • Is results oriented
  • Understands your business imperatives
  • Uses its broad knowledge of information technology acquisition, development, implementation and management
  • Facilitates best practice governance

You project success revolves around relationships between:

  • users - looking to technology to solve their business problems
  • technologists - tasked with delivering solutions
  • project managers - managing budgets, plans and logistics

A major reason for failed technology initiatives is that these relationships break down. The breakdown is almost always gradual, and can occur for a wide range of reasons. Even the smallest issue, if left unresolved, can sabotage an IT initiative.

You can avoid the cost and inconvenience of relationship breakdowns. Re-building relationships is invariably easier, less expensive and a more satisfactory remedy than starting the process again.

At IT-MEDIATOR we realise that early intervention can actually strengthen the relationships.

IT-MEDIATOR acts as an objective third party to assist in managing IT relationships to:

  • Prevent issues from building
    and/or
  • Assist the parties to achieve an appropriate resolution - once a dispute has arisen


When do you need an IT-Mediator?

Prevention
Resolution

As a third-party project oversight, we will assist you to:

Monitor on-going performance against both the contract and the expectations

  • detecting early signs that frictions are building - on either side - and that issues need discussion
  • identifying deviations from plans
  • escalating and resolving issues

As a mediator, we can:
Clearly identify and clarify issues which have caused a dispute and help both parties to achieve a satisfactory resolution:

  • identifying root causes
  • facilitating discussion
  • provoking alternative solutions
  • identifying consequences
  • building consensus

As counsel, we are in a position to:
Perform ad hoc temperature or health checks to assess performance and satisfaction

Click here for more details on Project Health-Checks

As expert witness, we will:
Assist in the identification and documentation of root cause problems and either assist in their resolution or provide the rationale for contract termination

 
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