Overview

OpenCrowd adopts a highly differentiated approach to project delivery. We blend business insight, user-centric design and cutting edge technology to craft innovative solutions. While each of these capabilities is typically employed to deliver such solutions, it is the synergies that we achieve by combining all three skill-sets at every stage of the process that sets our approach apart and allows us build engaging and impactful applications. The biggest benefit clients derive from our approach is the ability to validate their ideas and business models at a fraction of the cost and time they would incur through other avenues.

Speed, Innovation, Nimbleness, Transparency and Guaranteed Delivery are the fundamental elements underlying our approach.

Speed

Our approach is optimized for rapid solution development and iterative refinement. Our multi-faceted team members have mastery over their individual disciplines but are well versed in related disciplines. This results in a smaller team size, makes communication easier, eliminates rework thereby promoting efficiency and allowing us to deploy the initial phase of the application in 90 days or less.

Innovation

Creating applications that merely perpetuate the status quo is not part of our DNA. We like to the push the boundaries and create innovate solutions with impactful outcomes. In order to usher in innovation, we start by first conducting a thorough research of the relevant state of the art solutions in that space. We then look for opportunities to break new ground through the use of cutting edge technologies to push the solution envelope. With that as the background, we brainstorm potential solution approaches along with our clients, assess the feasibility of the ideas and craft solutions that can be truly game changing for our clients. We finally validate the solution with the stakeholders through a prototype, thereby refining and solidifying the solution in the process.

Nimbleness & Agility

A key to our success and perfect delivery record is that we recognize that one-size doesn’t fit all and we accordingly tailor our approach to the situation at hand, depending on the scope clarity, technical complexity and the work completed to date. We make sure to shape our approach to uniquely address each of our core client constituencies -- Startups, Financial Service firms and Health Care.

Our Startup clients need to achieve rapid delivery cycles that allow them to capture first-mover advantage and work around capital-raising milestones.

Our Financial Services clients need to align stakeholders across geographies, service lines, asset classes and roles to quickly launch proof of concepts and follow up with iterative deployments to capitalize on the market opportunity and stay ahead of the competition.

Our Health Care clients need to deploy cutting-edge technology as a means to control spiraling costs, improve reporting, data management, privacy control and reap benefits from the recent healthcare stimulus spending.

Transparency

OpenCrowd believes the key to successful project execution is clear expectation setting, in person meetings as required and enhanced communication via web conference calls, e-mail and the usage of wiki based project management and collaboration tools like “Trac” and “Assembla”. These tools enable the project to be run with complete openness and transparency fostering a shared commitment to meet the project milestones.

Guaranteed Delivery

We pride ourselves on our perfect delivery record to date. We’ve been able to achieve this due to our experience in analyzing and accurately estimating the project effort, our mastery over the tried and tested technologies and ability to constantly incorporate cutting edge technologies, and carefully managing the project to mitigate risks and ensure flawless execution.