Capabilities
Software Assessments
Unbiased Software Assessments for Confident Investment Decisions
MDTC offers a pre-investment sandbox that allows potential buyers to assess multiple software products before making a decision. Through unbiased, hands-on assessments conducted by students, faculty, and industry partners, we simulate real-world use cases based on your specific needs using replicated buyer data. Our process ensures optimal product fit, reducing the risk of purchasing software that won’t be adopted by users or fail to meet business requirements.
The benefits include:
- Risk Reduction: Buyers can avoid expensive mistakes by seeing how the software fits their needs in a controlled, low-risk environment
- Objective Insights: Students provide an unbiased, fresh perspective, identifying issues that internal teams may overlook – if the students struggle so will your users
- Talent Pipeline: The MDTC can also act as a recruitment channel, where buyers can identify talented students for future hires
Assessment Elements
Assessment Considerations
Quick win
Achieve value within a reasonable amount of time. Approximately 3-9 months.
Top Value
Use case(s) are impactful, meaningful and provides value.
Experience
We may have solved this type of problem before and understand the business need.
Technology
We can leverage the technology that customer already has.
Data
Data needed is easily accessible, available and transportable.
Achievable
The solution to the problem is achievable.
Assessment Components
Define
Align on set of use cases that are good candidates to showcase data driven decision making.
Value
Clear definition of problem statement, interfaces, determination and measure of value.
Data
Collaboratively identify, extract and validate data required to deploy ML models.
Build
Iterate through model setup, feature engineering, parameter tuning and user feedback.
Deployment
User acceptance and business case review then deploy system in the cloud environment.
Repeatability
Improve upon the deign of successful implementations.
Maintain
Provide managed services to support use cases deployed in production.
Measure
Monitor and measure results against defined KPIs
Grow
Review KPIs and business outcomes and enhance solution to improve business outcomes
Center of Innovation
Build and nurture engagements with COI
Assessment Approach
