Project Mechanics Case Studies

The Dearing Group is dynamic marketing and new media communications company.  They help companies weave the internet and web 2.0 technologies into traditional marketing programs to create better customer experiences, increase sales, and expand web visibility.

Their clients ask them to do a lot of things.  Whether it be marketing, web strategy or support for a difficult project.  It's safe to say most of the Dearing Group projects have a web component, involve social media  and consistently push the marketing envelope.

The Dearing Group needed a web presence to serve as a hub for their distributed web content.  They publish on several blogs and other social media sites.  They needed a way to bring all their content under a single unified brand.  Project Mechanics Web Services provided a platform to consolidate content from different sources including Blogs, Twitter, De.licio.us, Flickr, and Google Calendar.

The result was a site that not only highlighted the many actives of the Dearing Group but also demonstrates how hyper-publishing can be used to get your message out to the public, while maintaining a strong brand stratgey that reinforces rather than dilutes the brand.

Project Mechanics recently completed an implementation of a Control Analysis Model (CAM).  Running inside a BEA AquaLogic® User Interaction Portal. The solution used HandySoft BizFlow work engine to facilitate maintenance of policies and procedures. Once created, the policies and procedures were mapped to both internal and external best practice frameworks. This created the ability for users to view the complete policy and procedure library via multiple contexts.

Comparing a corporation's processes and controls to both regulatory requirements and best practice frameworks is a key component of evaluating risk, process improvement and control automation. The ability to analyze the maturity of an organization from a process and control perspective is essential to developing a strategy to increase that level of maturity through the introduction of new technology solutions or new process sourcing solutions.

The process of evaluating enterprise risk should begin with creation of a clear baseline of the current process and control environment. Once defined, the baseline model is initially used to perform a "Gap Analysis" of an organization’s process and control hierarchy.

Most organizations rely on consultants, after many hours of interviews, analysis and data entry, to build complex spreadsheets that are used for process and control analysis. In order to manage risk, executives need the ability to define a clear process and control strategy for their enterprise. This model will provide just that capability. Utilizing an advanced control analysis model, the team can rapidly analyze the process and control hierarchy and complete the initial gap analysis process. The analysis will be driven by risk management, leading practices and business requirements that are relevant to your organization

Renowned San Antonio artist Julie Verschoyle needed an online calling card to display her works and provide contact information.  Project Mechanics quickly registerd the domain (jverschoyle.com), adopted a template and published Julie's site using an easy to maintain web content management system.  All in time for an upcoming art festival. www.jverschoyle.com

Mobility Plus of Houston, Texas is a family-owned and operated business, specializing in modifying vehicles for the handicapped, and dedicated to the personal service that should be expected for these products and services.  They had a pleasing site, but were unable to make updates easily.   Project Mechanics implemented an easy to use content management system so Mobility Plus could update the site themselves.  In addition, the site was search engine optimized to attract more visitors.  www.mobilityplustx.com 

Project Palette was the vision of San Antonio artist Julie Verschoyle. Julie had the idea and motivation, but needed a forum for publicizing and soliciting donations. Project Mechanics provided the training and implementation of the organization's website. 

ProjectPalette.org