Empowering people to make smarter solutions by utilizing
smart data.
Powering Business Success
Our Partners
Solutions
Transforming the
Challenges of Business
Digital transformation addresses key business challenges by leveraging technology to improve efficiency, adaptability, and customer experience across all areas of an organization.
Finance
Start from any data source—or simply describe your data—to quickly develop budgets, forecasts, and reports.
Sales and Marketing
Connect disparate systems to provide instant notifications and mobile access to product info and sales tools.
Human Resources
Build easy-to-use apps that help employees stay connected, track data, share information, and take action.
Operations
Streamlines operations by automating workflows Transform auditing processes, modernize inventory management, and save on dispatch costs.
Frontline Workers
Give workers and managers the apps they need to increase efficiency—on desktop, mobile, or shared devices, or in Microsoft Teams.
Process
Our Approach
Creative | Smart | Purposeful
Effective maintenance is essential for the longevity and optimal performance of your systems. We offer comprehensive maintenance services designed to ensure smooth and efficient operations, providing you with peace of mind and the confidence that your systems are always running at their best.
Phase 1
Discovery
We love learning. It’s the genesis of every project. The discovery stage is the foundation upon which everything is built.
It allows us to connect with our client’s needs through active listening to comprehend the ask and root out the "why" for the project.
Our approach balances structure and adaptability allowing us to support clients across sectors and sizes. We are focused on achieving the goals while helping to position our clients for the next.
It starts with asking the right questions of the right people. This is critical in laying the foundation to build upon.
While integrating client involvement at particular touch-points helps with alignment and ultimately produces a better result.
Phase 2
Research
Pivotal to the outcome, the research phase is about challenging assumptions and understanding biases to provide tangible, insightful, and specific data essential for shaping the direction of the project. Building on the discovery stage, we look at processes, people, industry, and culture both
internally and externally.
Phase 3
Strategy
Opportunities exist in the details.
Following a philosophy of strategy must always drive the tactics, together we connect the business objective with a human-centred approach to formulate the best path forward. With words and sketches, ideas are turned into
a plan that is clear and on point.
Phase 5
Measure + Manage
Assessing results is vital in determining the effectiveness of a project.
Continuous improvement is important to us. Measuring and evaluating the KPIs helps both, the client and ourselves meet the goals of today while preparing for the challenges of tomorrow.
Phase 4
Execution
This is where ideas are brought to life!
Functional, meaningful and memorable, the execution stage bolsters concepts into customer-centric solutions that deliver while being authentic, purpose-driven, and on brand.
Differentiation
A Unique Consultancy
For Smarter Solutions
Focused Forward is a unique consultancy with a high-level business understanding, combining strong analytical and problem-solving expertise with innovative, conceptual and strategic creative thinking.
We specialize in digital transformation and graphic design. We utilize Design Thinking, a human-centered approach to innovation anchored in empathizing with customers, rapid ideation, and generating creative ideas to achieve better experiences and lasting, transformative results.
At our core is an unwavering desire to help our clients succeed. We are mindful, that in today's world, the emphasis on getting it done can overshadow getting it done correctly.
What's in a name?
Focused Forward is an aptronym of sorts. It’s a name that aligns perfectly with our perspectives, attitudes and actions exhibited in everything we do.
With expertise in digital transformation strategies and deep knowledge of Microsoft’s ecosystem, Focused Forward helps businesses unlock their full potential. Whether you're just starting your journey or looking to optimize existing processes, our tailored approach ensures success at every stage. Let us guide you toward a future of innovation, efficiency, and growth.
Let’s work together to unlock
the potential.
No matter where you are in your project, we’re here to help you remain focused forward with clarity and confidence.
About Us
Our Mission
Empowering Intelligent Thinking
Enabled by innovation and seduced by the possibilities of tomorrow, we strive for excellence in everything we do.
We are creative, agile, and intelligent, leveraging Design Thinking, to incubate ideas into actions leaving a positive and lasting mark on this world.
We are driven by a fundamental belief…
“Human-centered technology is the impetus for enduring business success.”
Empowering Intelligent Thinking
Humbled Appreciation
Business Success
Territorial Acknowledgement
A Shared Land, A Shared Home
Never forget the pain and sacrifice.
Embrace the history, culture and teachings.
Focused Forward humbly acknowledges we are gathered on Treaty 1 Territory and that Manitoba is located on the Treaty Territories and ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg, Anishininewuk, Dakota Oyate, Denesuline, and Nehethowuk Nations.
We acknowledge Manitoba is located on the Homeland of the Red River Métis and northern Manitoba includes lands that were and are the ancestral lands of the Inuit.
Focused Forward respects the spirit and intent of Treaties and Treaty Making and remains committed to working in partnership with First Nations, Inuit and Métis people in the spirit of truth, reconciliation and collaboration.