If you’ve been reading our blog lately, you’ll have seen our recent post on engineering excellence. If you haven’t - there’s still time to check it out before you get stuck into this one. This article is "engineering excellence explained" a customer analysis to help you understand what it means for you...
Put simply; engineering excellence is the processes and systems applied for every client project that the Pivale team undertake. That means every website we create must be:
But there’s so much more to our projects than just the build.
Today I'm going to tell you about how we help our customers with inward-facing and outward-facing analysis. This includes how we review their processes, their needs and ambitions, and their own customers’ personas and user journeys to ensure all solutions are fit for purpose and tick every box and then some.
During the initial consultation stages, there’s a lot for us to cover. Once the teas, coffees and biscuits are out of the way - the real work starts.
We want to know about your customer journey - and what it’s like for people to do business with you. If they’re struggling to use a website, or not getting the high-level service they’re used to - you’re damaging your reputation and risking those customers going elsewhere.
As businesses, there are always challenges that require solutions. Those can be split into the outward facing and the internal. From struggling with conversion rates, repetitive tasks/processes that are costing valuable time or simply outdated systems - they’re all going to cause a different, acute headache.
Once you remove human emotion and company politics, we believe that all problems are engineering problems in some way, shape or form. You just need the right support to engineer a long-term solution.
Using antiquated systems or software causes problems. That’s a fact. Just ask the NHS!
By using an off-the-shelf solution, data on COVID test results was lost. The data error, which led to 15,841 positive tests being left off the official daily figures, meant that 50,000 potentially infectious people might have been missed by contact tracers and not told to self-isolate.
That’s pretty serious. And all because of a spreadsheet. This is an example of those engineering problems we mentioned just a minute ago - having real-world impact on thousands of people. But if they were using a bespoke, tailored system, it likely would never have happened.
P.S. Not to say we knew stuff like this was a risk, but we wrote about it a few years ago. At the time, we said “Spreadsheets are a wonderful tool when used correctly. But when they're not, they can expose your business to significant, unnecessary risk, putting one of your business' most valuable assets – data – in harm's way.”
You might be feeling a little down after the doom and gloom. But fret not - we’ve got the answer.
Pivale ensure organisations are constantly executing best practice with their digital systems - that’s how we engineer excellence. But how does it work?
Firstly, we know it’s a dirty word, but nothing beats a good old-fashioned consultation. We’ll undertake a thorough, objective review and discovery process. This will be via workshops with staff, customers, informal conversations and formal, structured workgroups with a selection of stakeholders. We want to get under the skin of your business so we can best help you.
We want to understand:
Then, we get to work turning complex problems into workable action plans. Your solution moves from our minds to paper and then from paper into reality.
Over the 15 years we’ve been in business, we’ve overseen big changes for a lot of businesses. With our commitment to objectivity, customers can be sure they’re getting the best answers to their most pressing problems - and their customers, stakeholders and communities will feel the benefits for years to come.
Complex problems for you may not be complex for our team. We hold ourselves accountable to fix problems - it’s what we love. Working together, we build creative solutions that are wholly unique to your needs and leave no margin for error in our final product.
Our team will only suggest things we know will deliver impact. It’s our priority to achieve the greatest impact possible for your business, now and in the future.
Ready to take the first step? Great. We’d love to chat.
Let’s get started - we’ll get the kettle on.
We hold ourselves to a high standard. Every client benefits from our core services that combine to create websites and applications that help you thrive online.
