Comosoft's 4D Implementation Methodology
The LAGO implementation process has been refined over the past ten years and leverages a combination of industry Best Practices, experience, and a flexible “solutions” framework. Moving multi-channel marketers from an adhoc, unstructured PIM/planning/publishing workflow (for web and print), to a new generation of collaborative, centralized, database-managed digital processes, requires both a thoughtful approach to organizational and process change management, and a solid project management methodology. The four phases or stages to the Comosoft 4D program create a logical grouping of activities needed to implement LAGO.
1) Discovery
The focus of the Discovery program is to collect detailed business requirements (through a series of interviews and discussions with the Core team and with cross-functional process owners) about the existing processes, data flow, business drivers and product hierarchies used to segment and define the business (as it relates to product promotion/marketing).
2) Development
The objective of the Development phase to develop the data models, detailed checkpoints, workflows, processes, specifications for system interfaces and any customizations needed to fully meet the business requirements identified during Discovery.
3) Deployment
The Deployment phase leverages the results from Discovery to install and configure LAGO, implement system interfaces defined in the Development phase and import data (current pricing and product attributes) and 'history' (existing web and catalog content and product information, high-resolution images, etc.) into LAGO.
4) Delivery
The objective of the Delivery phase is to deliver the LAGO system and the training program to all end users.
