What Is The Solution Alignment Service?
This service is designed to help private sector manufacturers, software developers, integrators, and solution providers quickly align their ideas, strategies and solutions with a wide variety potential opportunities, meet with potential partners and users, gain feedback, and get recommendations on how best to improve their solutions and go forward.
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Contact Us: 443-718-9109.
How Does The Solution Alignment Service Work?
By leveraging the All Hazards Consortium's 15,000+ stakeholders across the U.S., this service very quickly aligns your solution with know requirements, interests or needs and provides you with education on how best to position your offer and facilitated email introductions to people and/or organizations. This has proven to be a unique and valuable capability which saves you time & money while at the same time provide a valuable service to our stakeholders. 
What Does This Service Provide?
This service provides you with an education on where your idea or solution fits based on real world operational experiences and provides you access to a unique Business Development Platform that equips you with the intelligence that would normally take up to 2 years and up to $100,000 to obtain through traditional marketing and business development efforts. Over the past few years, use of this service have gained the information listed below:

Market Intelligence
  • Where Is The Region Heading?
  • What Changes Will Affect Our Business?
  • What New Initiatives Are Coming in What Sectors?
  • What Programs Will Be Funded by Which Funding Source?
Business Intelligence
  • What Sectors Offer the Greatest ROI for your solution? Ports? Power? Rail? Food & Distribution? Finance? Retail? Water? Medical?
  • What Is Our Unique Value Proposition?
  • Where Are The Opportunities?
Partner Development
  • Who Is Currently Operating In The Aligned Sector(s)?
  • How Can We Partner With Them?
  • Who Is Best Positioned to Win?
  • Who Do We Know There?
Branding and Positioning
  • Do They Know Us?
  • Do They Know What We Offer?
  • How Are We Perceived?
  • How Can We Improve?
Face-to-Face Access
  • Meet Users and Partners On Neutral Ground
  • Meet The Key Stakeholders
  • Help To Shape The Solution
Project Intelligence
  • What Projects Are Being Developed?
  • Who Is Running Them?
  • How Will They Be Funded?
Customer Intelligence
  • Who Should We Target?
  • How Will They Decide?
  • Who Has The Funding?
  • Key Contact Information?
  • Who is at the Table?
  • How Do We Contact Them?
The 90 Day Process
Step 1- Project Initiation Meeting
  • A half-day, in-person meeting between your development team and the Consortium staff and liaison would be held to clearly identify the desired results, targets and process
Step 2- Initial Project Plan
  • The Consortium staff and liaison would develop and present a project plan to you which would include an initial list of contacts to be approached.

Step 3- Liaison Service
  • AHC staff would reach out personally to request key stakeholders to meet, evaluate the solution and provide feedback and referrals to possible users. Your AHC Liaison would  follow up with each stakeholder to secure a face-to-face meeting between you and the potential users/evaluators. In some cases, the Liaison would also accompany you to each meeting to facilitate communication and provide feedback.

Step 4- Mid-Course Assessment  Session
  • A conference call or meeting would be held partway through the process to enable us to determine if any change of direction is needed to meet the desired results.

Step 5- Evaluation Session
  • After the interviewing process has been completed to your satisfaction, a conference call or meeting would be held to evaluate the results of the process and to discuss next actions.
Step 6- Contacts/Engagement
  • You would receive complete contact information on the individuals that were engaged during the process.
Step 7- Recommendations
The Benefits
The benefits that results from this service are proven and unique.

Private sector organizations enhance their business development, communications, research and operations by building trusting relationships with the public and private sector operational leaders and managers with the AHC and its working groups.

The Solution Alignment Service provides the following benefits:

  • Expedites the needs analysis process to help you determine where your solutions fits in the public and private sectors markets within the AHC and its public and private sector stakeholder groups
  • Aligns your solutions with validated operational needs
  • Provides unfiltered end user feedback to you regarding your solution, its applications, it strengths and weaknesses
  • Equips you with recommendations for improvements
  • Provides you with email introductions to organizations that align with your solutions either as a business partners or potential user

Case Study
In early 2013, Hughes Network Systems engaged the AHC in this service to help develop an idea they had for a disaster response capability.

Working with the AHC along with both public and private sector advisors, Hughes began to shape the idea, address the operational requirements, begin framing the legal agreements, and eventually introduced the FLEET OPEN/CLOSED service now being used by the AHC's  Multi-State Fleet Response Working Group.

Just released in January, 2015, this service provides a national situational awareness tool for public and private sector responders during disaster situations when the need to identify opened facilities that sell gasoline, provide housing, access to water and food are critical in the first 72 hours.

This service provides a unique real-time capability not available anywhere else in the nation.

More Info
To get more information on this service, please contact us at info@ahcusa.org OR call 443-7187-9109.
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