Get on Track with Your Modernization & Improvement Efforts

In business, agility, speed, action, and decisiveness matter. However, thoughtful preparation will be the biggest enabler for achieving the results you expect.

Looking to Modernize or Improve Your Operations?

Gain Insight

Assess existing plans, approaches, challenges, & progress toward your goals.

OR

Gain a Plan

Assess your current state. identify core challenges and opportunities, and devise a workable plan to meet your modernization & improvement goals.

Need Expertise to Execute Your Modernization Work?

Gain Progress

Get experienced subject matter expertise on a temporary basis to remove blocks, enhance your team’s confidence, and deliver expected results in a quality manner.

Just Want to Expand Your Knowledge of Modernizing and Transforming?

Gain Knowledge

Access informal mentoring tools like special topic newsletters, guides, and one-on-one chats about your unique issues and opportunities. Sign up to access mentoring.

What is Thoughtful Impact?

Thoughtful Impact is a small independent consultancy in central PA with deep experience and broad expertise that will help you tackle challenges with:

  • Your Work – reduce or remove friction
  • Your Information – enhance its value, leverage its use
  • Your IT – enhance its value and reduce its risk
  • Your Mission – enable units and teams to deliver integrated end-to-end value
  • Your Managing & Leading – increase insight and decision confidence

We deliver the impact that’s expected when you apply the tools, skills, and approaches of an experienced…

  • Program/Project Manager
  • PMO/Transformation Advisor
  • Enterprise Architect
  • Product Owner/Guide
  • Business/Transformation Analyst
  • Facilitator

How Can You Get to Thoughtful Impact?

We move through this proven process:

A Chat:  

You’ll share concerns and ideas about current challenges, describe opportunities that need to be acted upon, and learn about how Thoughtful Impact may be a good fit to help.  Depending on your need, we could perform an initial assessment, or draft a proposal for services. The result will be a shared understanding and trust built without a fee being exchanged, along with an agreement about what Thoughtful Impact looks like to you. Otherwise, we’ll just check back in with you in the near future.

Introduction:

Following our formal agreement, we’ll meet your key folks and involved stakeholders. You’ll show us your relevant processes, operating guidance and information, business case and plans, and progress reports. This will leave us informed, upfront.

Engagement:

We’ll ask the right questions and listen hard to the answers as we look for goodness first and then identify disconnects.

Assessment:

We’ll find gaps and opportunities, separate and identify root causes from symptoms, determine how well time is used, and generate solution options with benefits and risks. This will result in a foundation for credible planning.

Craftsmanship:

The initial plan is crafted, fine-tuned with feedback, and updated to a recommended plan that aims at better progress toward your goals.

Execution:

If desired, we’ll support your team with guidance, expertise, and/or management to ensure better progress toward the expected impact.

If you’re a mission organization or a consulting or solution vendor, learn about who we serve and schedule a time to chat with Thoughtful Impact today.

Meet Jeff Akers, Founder and Principal Consultant at Thoughtful Impact

Program Manager, Business Manager, Transformation Advisor, Enterprise Architect, Solution Sales Executive. These are just a few of the roles Jeff successfully executed throughout his three-decades-plus career journey. Jeff is now the Founder and Principal Consultant at Thoughtful Impact.

Infrastructure Modernization, Performance Consulting, Operations Enrichment, Productivity Enhancement. These are only some of the services Jeff has brought to the agencies, institutions, and businesses he’s helped.

What kind of impact can Jeff make in your business? It all starts with a conversation.

Let’s Connect—to Discuss How to Make an Impact

With Thoughtful Impact, there’s no formal consultation process. Instead, we start with a discussion about the challenges you’re experiencing and what actions could improve your results. Every time we talk, we promise value. And there’s never a fee until we agree on a path forward.