Advisory &
Consulting

Offering end-to-end services to help move organizations forward

Leading organizations are looking to effectively integrate advanced technologies into their business strategy, enabling greater opportunities to innovate and advance their competitive advantage.

Diversified provides our clients with best-in-class technology and advisory services from any stage and at any scale. Our subject matter experts reimagine, design, and build streamlined solutions encompassing cloud, virtualization, AI, media, and supply chain workflows for clients across any industry, empowering their competitive edge and driving sustainable growth with a positive ROI.

Client Success

Blaze a new path to your future and deliver solutions matching your ambitions.

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Creating a Platform for Impactful Content

One of the world’s largest banks wanted a platform to deliver impactful content to both employees and visitors. They partnered with Diversified for the ideation of technologically advanced meeting spaces, state-of-the-art facilities, engaging digital experiences, and a prominent retail presence. These enhancements contribute to the client’s modern and innovative image and support efficient operations.

Expanding Capabilities with Pioneering ST2110 Media System

Fox Sports partner with Diversified for a feasibility study aimed at developing a portable ST2110 media production and distribution system for the FIFA World Cup and the Super Bowl. The successful outcome was an innovative “flypack” broadcast system that revolutionized the live broadcast industry and addressed numerous logistical challenges faced by Fox Sports. This flypack represents their proprietary system, which they can customize and upgrade as needed. It is designed and transported with redundancy in mind, ensuring reliability, swift setup, and enhanced transport capabilities.

Improving Customer Satisfaction Through VR Training

A top 10 insurance company sought advisory services for empathy training using mobile VR classroom kits. The scalable and accessible solution provided immersive learning experiences, cost-effectiveness, and standardized content. It fostered a customer-centric workforce, expected to boost satisfaction and drive organizational success.

Driving Versatile Operations via Broadcast Center Transformation

A prominent global entertainment media and content businesses partnered with Diversified to enhance their capabilities through IP-based technologies. Diversified’s multi-year planning, consulting and design development services empower them to achieve their objective. The transformation to network infrastructure permits high-availability content workflows and seamless access across multiple stations and news divisions. With virtualized applications for storage, editing, and live control rooms, the client gains versatile operation across multiple live studios and efficient utilization of on-premise and third-party hosted data centers.

Our Services

Drive Organizational Success

Strategy | Define your long-term vision

Define your long-term vision, identify growth opportunities, and develop actionable plans to achieve your goals.

Consulting scope development & definition
- Consulting engagement scope & pricing
- High-level consulting engagement project plan
- Unified articulation of future-state goals
- Presentation of proposal for consulting engagement
Initial discovery & consulting planning
- Unified articulation of future-state goals
- Consolidation of existing process and system documentation
- Consulting engagement project plan
- Deliverables presentation
- Evaluation & presentation of findings
Current-state discovery & analysis
- Current-state discovery & documentation & analysis
- Current-state vs. future-state objectives gaps analysis
- Staff / facilities readiness assessment
- COTS vs custom dev cost competitive analysis
- Deliverables presentation

Future Concepting & Innovation | Identify emerging trends, technologies, and market shifts

Identify emerging trends, technologies, and market shifts while developing strategies to adapt to changing landscapes and maintain a competitive edge.

Future-state conceptualization, design and requirements definition
- Future-state conceptual solution design
- Future-state detailed solution design
- Requirements specification for future-state solution
- ROM development
- ROM budgetary pricing RFI/RFP & implementation execution outline
- Deliverables presentation

Design & Engineering | Optimize your design and engineering processes

Optimize your design and engineering processes, enhance quality, reduce costs, and accelerate time-to-market for improved operational efficiency.

Future-state detailed and technical design, bill of materials
- Design to requirements specification
- BOM development
- BOM pricing estimation
- RFI/RFP & Implementation execution plan

Program Management | Successfully execute complex initiatives with project planning

Successfully execute complex initiatives with project planning, resource allocation, risk management, and performance monitoring to achieve desired outcomes within your timeline and budget.

Bid/RFP preparation, vendor solicitation and selection
- Phase 4 kickoff
- Initiation with scope review and resource assignment
- RFI / RFP document
- Vendor scorecard development
- Vendor analysis report & recommendation
- Project budget
- POC definition and execution playbook
- Phase 4 deliverables presentation
Project implementation and program management
- Initiation with scope review and resource phase 5 kickoff
- Implementation project oversight and management (if applicable)
- Close-out report & presentation
- Close-out tasks
- Project close-out evaluation

Our Expertise

Transform Your Business

Media

AI & Data Analytics
Cloud & Virtualization
Emerging Technology Strategies & Implementation
Enterprise Grade Viewer Collaboration
Enterprise Technology & Services Strategy
Facility Transformation & Relocation
Media Production via Agile Infrastructure
Media Supply Chain Workflow & Technology Optimization
Omni-Channel Content Creation & Distribution Strategies
Programming & Operations Rationalization
Security & Compliance

Workplace

AI & Data Analytics
Digital Marketplaces & Experiences
Hybrid Work Collaboration, Equity & Inclusion
Mission Critical Environments
Security & Compliance
Sustainability, Smart Technology & Intelligent Workplaces
Technology & Services Strategy

Meet the Team

Our award-winning teams understand the real-world application of technology, which informs each client engagement.

Eivind Sandstrand

SVP Workplace Consulting & Innovation

Jason Kornweiss

VP Media Consulting

Jared Timmins

VP Media Innovation

Blaine Brown

Workplace Principal Consultant

Dave Simon

Director Media Supply Chain

Karl Paulsen

Media CTO

Jessica Dziak

Media Business Analyst

Steve Southern

Director Innovation Development

Tom Carlisle

Director Cloud Innovation

Patrick Daly

Director Systems Innovation

Tom Michales

Director Media Consulting

News & Insights

Diversified Ranks #2 on SCN’s Annual List of Top 50 Systems Integrators

Diversified will introduce 300 D.C. metro area high school students to the technology redefining media at STEM for Her event

Seamless Integration in the Hybrid Workplace

Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Cloud and Storage Technologies in Media and Entertainment

Eric Hutto on Building Trust Through Major Business Transformation

Eric Hutto and Diversified on Cover of The Silicon Review

How can AI help broadcasters make data management more sustainable

Unveiling Our Refreshed Brand: Creating the Unforgettable

Building the Metaverse with the Elastic Media Supply Chain

Connect to Your Digital Future

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