Our Why

Our Why is Your Success
Delivering long lasting impact through consistent innovation
At Alliance Systems, we define our success directly as the success of our clients. Delivering a project on time and on budget are just pieces of a larger equation. We care about multiple perspectives that go beyond tech and systems. While we commonly attract Startups and Manufacturing clients, we’re always excited to collaborate with companies across various disciplines.
Together, we hope to lead the way and deliver innovative solutions never thought possible.

How does Alliance Systems stay ahead of the curve and deliver consistent innovation?
Our DNA for problem solving is centered around an innovation framework called Design Thinking. Some of the most innovative and creative brands such as Apple, Google, GE and Samsung have been leveraging principles from this framework to deliver impact through their products and services.
Design Thinking is being taught at leading universities around the world including MIT, Harvard and Stanford. It’s popular, because it is effective and built around a designer work process that can help systematically extract, teach, and apply human-centered techniques to solve problems.

We Love Falling in Love with the Problem
What is Design Thinking?
A literal definition of Design Thinking can be described as an iterative process that challenges assumptions, while building empathy for the user and redefining problems to arrive at strategies and solutions that aren’t instantly apparent. This iterative process breaks down into three vantage points which provide a wholistic view to problem solving. These three vantage points are:

Design View
Places emphasis on making sure people desire and want to use the product or service.

Technology View
Ensures the solution is viable by selecting the right level and variation of technology.

Business View
Places priority on making sure the cost of operations are sustainable to deliver the product or service to the market.

It's At Our Core
Design Thinking Concepts
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Empathize - with your users, fall in love with the problem
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Define - your users needs, their problem, and team insights
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Ideate - challenge assumptions and create ideas for innovative solutions
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Prototype - start creating solutions quickly within and agile system and arrive at MVP (Minimal Viable Product) as quickly as possible
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Test - Reconcile solution against real users for iterative feedback

We Avoid Silos
The traditional digital design model is flawed.
Older approaches to designing and developing systems are flawed. Teams used to work in silos and project management was pre-planned to every detail. It is unfortunate, but many consulting firms and agencies still use these old methodologies. Clients have increased exposure to risk, increased costs through and after production, which lowers the percentage of success.

Our agile design process involves teams working together.
From day one, without silos, we work together so we can categorize and organize ideas and solve them across design, technology, and business vantage points. Remember, Design Thinking is essentially a problem-solving approach, which combines a holistic user-centered perspective with rational and analytical research.
The Alliance System team is well represented by designers, technologists, and business analysts that care for one thing; and that is the macrolevel success and impact our projects make on our clients end-users. Our passion for innovative problem solving is shared by everyone across all stages of our projects. It’s built into the DNA of our team and culture.

From Concept Through Post-MVP
Start Up Ecosystem
Alliance Systems thrives when it comes to working with startups. Our organization was born out of the same entrepreneurial spirit. We attract leaders of these organizations because of how we define success. We don’t define success as merely solving the technical challenges and delivering them on time and on budget. While these are critical factors, we understand the entrepreneurial challenges that go beyond the build. From operational costs to marketing and determining the right level of MVP (Minimal Viable Product) and conducting UX research throughout various phases to ensure end-user adoption.
What does this mean for startups?
Another unique value we provide is that our Alliance brand brings together other offerings outside of our systems group. To learn more about these additional portfolio offerings, read more about the Alliance Brand.