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  Our Background
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  Our Clients
  Our Executive Team
  Overview
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  > Portal Strategy Best Practices
  > People-Centered Design
  > Informed Portal Design
  > Adaptable and Scalable Designs
  > Portal Program Management
  Overview
  Enterprise Management Solutions
  > The Enterprise Portal
  > Human Resource Portals
  > Corporate Communication
  > Sales Portals
  Operations Management Solutions
  > Partner Portals
  Customer Management Solutions
  The Technical Foundation
  Change Management Services
  > LDS and SAP NetWeaver® Portal
  > Microsoft SharePoint®
  Portal Features
  > Collaboration
  > e-Learning
  > Portal Dashboards
  Overview
  LDS Best Practice Webinar Series
  The Enterprise Portal by Logical Design
  Solutions
  LDS Portal Focus Points
  > Portal Evolution
  > The Intelligent Portal
  > Portal Strategy
  > Transformation: The LDS View
  > Making the Portal the Point of Integration
  > Web 2.0
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  Overview
  Career Opportunties
  The Work We Do
  > Getting It Right: The Strategy
  > Keeping People Front and Center:
     The Stakeholders
  > Our Solutions, Our People
  The Inside Story
  Culture and Benefits
  > Benefits & Training
  > Our Commitment to Community
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Our Business

Major corporations rely on LDS for leadership and expertise in conceiving, designing, engineering and managing the enterprise portal programs that are at the heart of their business strategies. We do this using a variety of LDS assets:
  • The Logical ApproachSM is our people-centric, results-oriented methodology that structures our engagements from early strategy through detailed design, delivery and maintenance.
  • Our LDS Best Practices bring best-of-breed solutions for complex business scenarios and couple these with our mature program management best practices to ensure a successful result.
  • We continually innovate and elaborate our approach and best practices via LDS thought leadership to keep our solutions, and our clients, ahead of the technology curve.
Our solutions cross a wide spectrum of business functions and constituent groups:
  • Enterprise Management Solutions — We focus on the business goals, processes, and diverse users who comprise the internal "ecosystems" for business-to-employee (B2E) online channels.
  • Operations Management Solutions — These partner and line-of-business solutions create channels for commerce, innovation, or e-enabling the supply chain largely focused on business-to-business (B2B) channels that rely on people to make them work.
  • Customer Management Solutions — We create competitive advantage and realize corporate or product brand objectives through customer relationship channels in these business-to-customer (B2C) online offerings.

Our Points of Differentiation
We are a management consultancy with a unique blend of business, design and technology capabilities. We are known in our space for our expertise and these points of differentiation:

  • We focus holistically on the online channel
  • The Logical ApproachSM
  • We conduct comprehensive business process analysis from the vantage point of the people who use these channels
  • Our user experience expertise and best practices are best-of-breed and proven over our long history, and hundreds of client successes
  • We assess and remediate the impact of business change on the people and processes involved, then we develop targeted and unique learning and communications programs
  • Our engineering savvy enables us to build the solutions we conceive, while providing strategic technology consulting to both our business- and technology-side clients
  • We invest in research and development to fuel our own innovation and continually evolve our perspectives, which we actively share in the business and technology communities and with our clients.
At LDS, we offer a unique value proposition to our clients. And, our track record provides us with the history and credentials — and a long list of satisfied customers and innovative solutions — to assert that we are the best at what we do.