Why Cartography?
In the information economy, improving operations or standing up new ones is harder than ever. When you’re producing knowledge instead of widgets, it’s harder to quantify assets, identify your product, and measure your efficiency in meeting goals. The days of defined best practices are largely over. Tighter budgets dictate smaller staffs that are more focused to the task at hand and less free to focus on new tasks or addressing existing problems. (need one sentence)
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Our Value
Our Approach
How We Can
Help You.
#1 We Clarify. From whiteboard to flow chart, we visualize your operations so you can see the processes underlying them.
#2 We Simplify. We help you implement ways to make quick gains in efficiency, cost savings, and risk reduction.
#3 We Techify. For one reason or another, it’s time to upgrade, go paperless, do something fun. We help architect that decision to ensure the solution fits your–and, more importantly, your users’– needs.
Our Idea
Introducing the
Corporate Cartographer.
An information economy relies on clear, organized, understandable information. Information Architecture (IA) grew out of website development, but we believe its tenets–(insert some here)–will revolutionize process consulting. A corporate cartographer is an information architect.
Management consultants get a bad rap. We believe they have great skills, they are just staffed poorly. Their fundamental principles–(insert some here)–are ours too. A Corporate Cartographer is also a management consultant.
Part information architect, part management consultant. 100% Corporate Cartographer.
Our Model
We Don't Oversell
You on a Solution.
You’ve heard it before, but we really mean it when we say we’re a different kind of consulting company.
First, we staff every client the same way: with two cartographers. One is the Creative lead, focusing on facilitation, framing the problem, and designing the flow of the solution. We balance this with a Technical cartographer who looks for the most feasible, fastest, and least expensive means to implement technical solutions to solve your problems.
Second, we don’t keep a huge full-time staff–and the need to find a way to keep them billable at all times. We’ve made strong partnerships with other consultancies and the local freelance community–designers, coders, subject experts–and we leverage their experience to build creative solutions without all the overhead.
Our Services
About Us
Our History
Corporate Cartography started over a pizza shared between its founders in Jackson, Mississippi four years ago. They had spent several months jumping from task to task, trying to ensure the smooth operation of the State of Mississippi’s Hurricane Katrina recovery programs, and realized that the work was impossible to perform without everyone reaching a common understanding. In short, before jumping to conclusions as to the solution, there had to be a plan to get there. And often, a whiteboard and a simple flow chart is what got the ball rolling.
J.P. Micucci, Founder & Creative Director of Cartography
Jon-Pierre Micucci sees the world in flow charts, enjoys thinking through problems collaboratively, and seldom leaves a whiteboard blank. He’s best at thinking on his feet, outside of the box - so it’s always a surprise when someone learns that his degree from Boston College was in Accounting and Business Systems.
JP has over 12 years of management consulting and information architecture experience. Following Hurricane Katrina, JP facilitated the build-out of eligibility and disbursement operations for Mississippi’s Homeowner Assistance Programs, bridging the expertise of accountants, consultants, lawyers, and technical developers into real, implementable process solutions.
Jay Mehta, Co-Founder & Technical Director of Cartography
Jay Mehta has always been a techie–he originally planned on being a CS geek at Georgia Tech. But at some point, he realized he was a rare techie who could write, and passed on GT for Journalism at GW.
Jay has seven years of professional service experience in fields such as technical training, technical writing, process design, IT requirements production, and reporting/dashboard creation. Jay can handle PHP development, CSS, XHTML, Javascript, and MySQL, and he’s a master of software as well, such as the Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office, Omnigraffle, and Crystal Reports.
Partners
We are proud members of the Affinity Lab, an entrepreneurial launch platform serving a rich community of creative businesses, non-profits and start-ups. The lab is stocked with consultancies that can be called upon when needed - coders, designers, strategists. Check out a few of our favorites.
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