Sounds like the title for a famous painting (When did you last see your father? By William Frederick Yeames) but it is a question every business owner or manager should be asking. At the beginning of the company, department or project there was a clear perspective on where you were going and what you wanted to achieve. It was all easily definable, there was often a clean slate and there were certainly no personalities involved.

However as time goes on the amount that has to be done seems to increase. Perhaps there was a degree of underestimation of the amount of work involved in getting the work done and perhaps new tasks came along that no one could have ever foreseen, but you are now faced with not enough time to get things done.

Many people then turn from visionaries into people who simply react to the demands of the business. The strategy is often left behind as you simply fight to stay on top of things. It does not take long before you are lost in the maze of everything; then of course your business suffers as well as your staff and customers. It can feel as if you are trying to run on a floor covered with ball bearings. Eventually you will of course end up falling on the floor.

So the million-dollar question is ………if I am in this situation how do I get out of it? And the priceless answer…………Speak to PDT Ltd.

We have a lot of experience in helping businesses escape from the minefields they have ended up in. We look towards business systems and solutions that can not only recover you from your present situation but also help you to avoid getting into a similar situation in the future. Our professional practitioners have major experience not only in running their own companies but also in working for others in many different organisations. We understand the problems you may be facing and how at times you cannot seem to see the wood for the trees. People outside your business can achieve a clearer and bigger picture of what is going on inside than you will; if we can convey this to you, you will be able to consider the problems and determine the possible solutions with a lot more agility and confidence.

Within the company, we hold the belief that there should be a sound theoretical basis for the definition of business processes and, where appropriate, the corresponding supporting software. We have developed this expertise in a toolset, called CREATIV, which allows users to model business logic, together with new ideas and proposals for change. You are therefore able to determine how new systems will operate before any building takes place and can ensure that new systems will behave exactly as you require. One output from the CREATIV toolset is the precise and accurate specification for the new computer system.

Bridging the Gap

Once you have a precise and accurate specification all you need to do is to write the software to implement the system. This is where further help is at hand: PDT Ltd has teamed up with Escher Technologies who have a software product (Perfect Developer) that will take a system specification and turn it automatically into correct and efficient executable code. Even quite complex systems can be produced very rapidly. The benefits are obvious: you can generate code very much more quickly and reliably by rule than manually; and the code will be error free as well. The system is intended for code production in life critical situations and so has a very high level of integrity.

What do I do now?

Call PDT Ltd on 01628 782413 or e-mail us. Speak to us about your company. We will give you an indication of the cost of the project after we have first understood its scope. This might be possible over the phone; alternatively, we can arrange to come and speak with you at your site. We usually make no charge for the first preliminary discussion meeting.