Experienced Consultants and Analysts in IT, Telecommunications, Networking and Contact Centres

Analysis, insight and opinions you can trust in IT, telecommunications, networking and contact centres

We are a team of experienced technology and management professionals who help Canadian organizations select, acquire and manage IT, telecom, network and contact centre technologies. 

We each bring a combination of technology expertise and experience in our respective technology and industry areas, combined with objective, structured approaches. 

Each one of us also brings our innovative, creative thinking, values and integrity, combined with a sincere commitment and willingness to work with our clients to ensure that we help our clients achieve their business results.

If you would like to discuss how future telecommunications, network and contact centre requirements can help improve your business results, contact Roberta J. Fox for a complementary 1/2 hour discussion at Roberta's New Single Number 289.648.1981 or Roberta . Fox @foxgroup.ca.

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Our Technology Consulting Services include:

Technology Strategies, Architecture and Designs in IT, VoIP, Telecom, Network, Video and Mobile Technologies

  • Working with the senior business and technology leaders, we profile the current technology, organization and financials.
  • We review the future technology requirements against the strategic business goals and objectives and organization including roles, responsibilities and skills.
  • We develop the future technology strategy, architecture and design and develop realistic designs, and implementation plans that are realistic and possible to implement.

Telecom, Network and Contact Centre Architecture, Design & Project Management

  • LAN/WAN remote access architectures, wiring/infrastructure designs and management tools.
  • VoIP PBX, IVR, CTI architecture, platform and applications design.
  • Unified communications solutions including emerging video and messaging applications. 

Vendor RFP Design, Procurement Analysis and Contract Negotiations

  • Development of business requirements, technical specifications, RFP content, analysis and vendor negotiations for complex ICT solutions.
  • We use our proprietary web-based survey tools and focus group sessions to gather business and technical requirements.
  • Our detailed technical, financial and compliance analysis tools allow us to objectively analyze vendor solutions against customer requirements.

Business Requirements Assessments for Next Generation Technology Migrations

  • Using our proprietary web based survey and analytical tools we review the current infrastructure to determine the feasibility, expandability, performance.
  • We gather the future business requirements and develop unique technical requirements aligned to your future business strategy.
  • We also analyse the overall technical and organizational capabilities to be able to implement and support future technologies, whether on a local, regional or national perspective.

Outsource, Cloud Computing Readiness Assessments

  • Should you outsource your technology management?What are the attributes of a successful long-term relationship?How do you measure service levels, measurements, vendor performance, etc.
  • How do you manage and measure vendor performance, service, and technology results against original business case/ROI factors?

Call Centre Technology Architecture, Design, Resources and Cost of Ownership

  • System requirements, capacity and licensing requirements
  • Which applications should you use, i.e. ACD, IVR, WFM reporting
  • What resources do you need to support your current and future environment?
  • How do you measure performance (systems and applications)? etc.

Whitepapers

  • Thought leadership whitepapers geared to specific products and audienceseducate, inform and influence customer investments.

TOP 4 REASONS to choose FOX GROUP as your professional management technology consultants:

 

No. 1 - We operate and run the practice by the York Region Character Council Business traits, the Communications Technology Consultant Association (CTCA) Code of Ethics, as well as the Community of Telecommunications Consultants (CTC) Code of Ethics.

 

We have developed processes and procedures to abide by the York Region Character Business Council (and were in fact founding business members in 2002).   We have also recently been nominated as a York Region "Character Business" for 2012. 

 

We operate the consulting practice according to the Communications Technology Consultants Association (CTCA) Code of Ethics, as well as the Community of Telecommunications Consultants (CTC) published Code of Ethics.

 

We have an internal Ethics Committee and Information Management Officer. We have also developed supporting processes within the firm to ensure that we maintain our objective, fair approach to all vendor/client activities, disregarding consultant or client.

 

No. 2 - We "Walk the Talk".....We actually use the technology that we consult in! - We are one of the few consulting firms that actually use advanced next generation telecom and network technologies that we consult in!!! This includes hosted, managed and on premises VoIP, UC and collaboration tools from variouus technology vendors.

 

Ask to see our current architecture solutions diagrams if you want!  We would be happy to show you how we use on-site and hosted/colo managed VoIP, UC and collaboration tools on a daily basis.

 

Through our own day-to-day experience, combined with our structured, disciplined analysis and approach, we are able to clearly understand the challenges, and benefits next generation VoIP, UC and contact centre systems and applications can bring to our clients.

 

No. 3 - We have developed and use structured, disciplined processes and methodologies for our analysis - This includes automated methods, templates, tools and processes to enable us to help our clients analyze and aquire complex VoIP, UC, collaboration and contact centre technology solutions as part of complex RFP acquisition projects.

 

We use web-based analysis tools in our consulting engagements to reduce our client's time, effort and consulting budget to gather business and technology requirements. This includes 3D RFP procurement compliance, pricing and solution analysis tools with supporting structured methods to ensure fair, objective comparisons and vendor selection.

 

This automation enables us to reduce our internal time and effort for our clients for analysis and use our expertise to analyze and interpret the results, not manually number crunch using old consulting business models!  It also reduces the cost to our clients for the work performed!

  

No. 4 - We consistently help our clients acquire and implement complex, multi-vendor technology projects on time and on budget! - Using our structured tools, methodologies and extensive experience, we consistently help our clients install complex technology solutions from telecom, network and contact centre vendors on time and on budget!

 

And, we have been doing this for decades with organizations of all sizes across Canada and around the world too!

 

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We agree to, and abide by the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and Values as stated on the both the Communications Technology Consultants Association CTCA, the Community of Telecommunications Consultants (CTC) and the York Region Character Community web sites.

FOX GROUP is proud to celebrate 13 years of helping Canadian business acquire, select and manage IT, telecommunications, networking and contact centre solutions to improve business results.

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Roberta J. Fox, Chief Innovation Officer



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