Digital Transformation Partner

ACI Drives Innovation for the
Best Possible Outcome.

A trusted advisor guiding businesses through the process of leveraging digital technologies to enhance operations, improve customer experiences, and drive growth — backed by SAFe Gold SPCT, GSP Select, and ICAgile accreditation.

Consulting Solutioning Org Change Mgmt
Emily Harshman, Founder of Agility Consulting International
What We Deliver

End-to-End Digital Transformation Services.

From organizational change management to AI/ML capabilities — a comprehensive suite of services designed to guide your business through every stage of transformation.

Organizational Change Management

ACI focuses on organizational change management as the set of activities aimed at preparing and supporting individuals, teams, and the entire organization through a period of change or transformation. It is important to manage the human side of change, mitigate resistance, minimize productivity disruptions, and enhance employee morale and well-being.

Change Management Planning

Change management planning in Agile consulting helps organizations smoothly transition through evolving processes, roles, and technologies. We create tailored plans that align with your Agile goals, focusing on stakeholder engagement, impact assessment, and communication strategies to minimize resistance and disruption. With continuous feedback loops, we embed a change-positive mindset into your organizational culture.

Digital Transformation

ACI is a trusted advisor that guides businesses through the process of leveraging digital technologies to enhance operations, improve customer experiences, and drive growth, also known as digital transformation.

Technology Adoption

Technology adoption in Agile consulting ensures smooth integration of new tools and systems to enhance efficiency, collaboration, and scalability. We assess your current processes, recommend technologies that align with your Agile workflows, and provide support for seamless implementation.

Maturity Assessments – Agile Integration Maturity

ACI offers a tailored Agile Integration Maturity Model grounded in Gartner, Agile, Infrastructure, and Operations best practices. The Decision Driven Maturity Model clarifies implementation needs and establishes a unified language for Agile teams with a 5-level maturity framework, assessing current and future growth.

Product Lifecycle Management

ACI helps with product lifecycle management (PLM) — a strategic approach aimed at managing the entire lifecycle of a product from inception through development, production, distribution, and eventual retirement. We help organizations anticipate market demands, gain market share, and identify opportunities for product improvement.

Data Analytics & Business Intelligence

ACI enables and drives data analytics and business intelligence in order to gain insights and make informed business decisions. Data analytics refers to the process of examining large volumes of data to uncover patterns, trends, and correlations. ACI helps organizations transform raw data into actionable insights.

Toolchain Management

ACI enables toolchain management as the systematic management of tools, software, and technologies used in the development, testing, and deployment of software applications or systems. Effective toolchain management streamlines workflows, ensures compatibility between tools, and enables teams to work efficiently.

Performance Monitoring

ACI enables and drives performance monitoring as the process of continuously observing, measuring, and analyzing the performance and behavior of a system, application, or process. The goal is to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and potential issues that may impact overall performance and user satisfaction.

IT Business Management

ACI helps businesses manage their IT departments more effectively — aligning IT with business goals, improving IT processes, managing IT projects and budgets, and ensuring IT operations run smoothly through strategic planning, IT governance, operations management, and financial management.

Operations Adaptability and Agility

ACI helps businesses become more adaptable and agile — quickly adjusting to changes and challenges in their operations. This means responding to market changes, embracing innovation, optimizing resources, mitigating risks, and enhancing customer satisfaction.

DevSecOps Pipelines

ACI helps businesses integrate security into their software development process through DevSecOps pipelines — combining development, operations, and security into one seamless process. By including security from the start, these pipelines make sure potential vulnerabilities are addressed early and consistently.

Cloud Migration

ACI helps businesses move their applications, data, and infrastructure from physical servers to the cloud — enabling cost savings, scalability, and better security, allowing businesses to focus more on their core operations while cloud providers handle the technical details.

Process Engineering

ACI helps businesses improve their processes by making them more efficient and effective — designing, analyzing, and fine-tuning workflows to boost productivity, cut costs, and enhance quality. This approach is essential for staying competitive and meeting customer needs.

Platform Management

ACI specializes in the effective administration, optimization, and maintenance of software platforms critical for application and service delivery — including installation, configuration, performance monitoring, security, upgrades, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.

IT Service Management

ACI helps manage IT services using ITSM frameworks like ITIL to design, deliver, and improve IT support — making services more efficient, reliable, and aligned with business goals, leading to better service, fewer problems, and happier customers.

ServiceNow Solutions & Integration

ACI enables and drives ServiceNow — software that helps businesses build digital workflows on a single unified platform covering employee workflows, customer workflows, and creator workflows, enabling seamless toolset data integration and federation.

Toolset / Data Integration & Federation

ACI drives toolset integration and federation by unifying multiple software tools into a seamless environment for managing operations. This connects diverse systems enabling smooth data flow, collaboration, and information exchange — with data and process integration, unified user experience, and SSO for easy access.

Emerging Technologies

ACI drives the adoption of emerging technologies — innovative tools still in early development stages with the potential to disrupt industries, transform processes, and create new business opportunities. Organizations that embrace these technologies gain a competitive edge and fuel innovation.

DevOps Enablement

ACI drives DevOps enablement by fostering collaboration, communication, and automation between development and operations teams. This approach streamlines processes, integrates tools, and promotes continuous feedback for faster delivery and improved stability.

Software as a Service (SaaS) Enablement & Deployments

ACI drives SaaS — delivering applications over the internet without local installation. SaaS offers centralized access, scalability, and a subscription-based model, with benefits including cost-effectiveness, rapid deployment, and lower IT overhead.

IT Governance

ACI drives IT governance by implementing frameworks and processes that ensure efficient management of IT resources, systems, and operations. IT governance aligns IT initiatives with business goals, maximizes value from IT investments, and mitigates risks using frameworks like COBIT and ITIL.

Catalog Development

ACI drives catalog development by creating and maintaining a centralized repository of products, services, or resources — improving customer experience, supporting decision-making, boosting sales, and enhancing internal efficiency by providing up-to-date information.

CI/CD Enablement

ACI drives CI/CD enablement by implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment practices — enabling faster time to market, improved quality, and better scalability through automation, quality assurance, Infrastructure as Code, and collaboration.

Proofs of Concept

ACI drives proofs of concept (POC) as small-scale experiments to validate the feasibility of a concept or technology before full-scale implementation — helping organizations assess feasibility, gather insights, and make informed decisions early in a project.

AI/ML Capabilities

ACI drives AI/ML capabilities, enabling systems to analyze data, make intelligent decisions, and automate complex tasks. Key aspects include data analysis, predictive analytics, automation, natural language processing, and anomaly detection — helping organizations gain insights and deliver personalized experiences.

Process Engineering

ACI drives process engineering by designing, analyzing, and optimizing industrial processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness — involving process design, analysis, optimization, documentation, automation, and continuous improvement to maximize productivity and reduce waste.

Product / Service Planning

ACI drives product/service planning by creating detailed roadmaps for developing and launching new offerings — involving market research, identifying customer needs, setting goals, defining features, and planning execution and marketing strategies.

Roadmapping

ACI drives roadmapping by creating visual plans for future goals, milestones, and initiatives — helping organizations align efforts, prioritize tasks, and make informed decisions with goal setting, timelines, prioritization, and flexibility.

IT Service Management

ACI drives ITSM by implementing practices and frameworks to design, deliver, and improve IT services, aligning them with business objectives. Key aspects include service design, incident management, and change management using ITIL best practices.

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Client Stories

What our clients are saying!

Joshua Kikta
Joshua Kikta
Liberty Mutual Insurance

"ACI is an exceptional leader and Agilest. She brings a wealth of knowledge from her years of agile practice and coaching. This experience allows her to provide comprehensive strategies which help propel teams forward and find new levels of improvement within the scrum discipline."

Elizabeth Shirkey
Elizabeth Shirkey
South State Bank

"ACI was able to provide a succinct and an easily digestible view of our pain points through her assessment. These were things like capacity and prioritization that we knew plagued our organization and were previously unable to articulate."

Ryan Fillman
Ryan Fillman
Digital Management, LLC

"I have been part of several trainings and agile round table discussions that ACI has facilitated and have found ACI to be very knowledgeable and thorough. She is well-versed in Scrum, SAFe, and LeSS and would be an excellent resource for any organization looking to implement or scale their Agile practice."

Customer Feedback
Customer Feedback

"ACI did a great job at getting a baseline of knowledge from the team and adjust training from there. I learned a lot more than I thought I would. Thank you!"

Customer Feedback
Customer Feedback

"ACI was a knowledgeable SME on the topics discussed. Her ability to talk thru the exercises with those of us with different levels of experience on story writing was also appreciated."

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Customer Feedback

"ACI is a great trainer. I really enjoyed her enthusiasm for what would be a pretty dry topic. It helps the time go more quickly and the content seem more interesting."

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