Acumen Solutions to Design Cohesive
IFC Web Site That Enhances User Experience
Washington, D.C., February 19, 2002
—The International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group and Acumen Solutions, Inc., a leading management and technology consulting firm, today announced an agreement to redesign IFC’s Web site. IFC is the largest multilateral source of loan and equity financing for private sector projects in the developing world.
Acumen Solutions has been retained by IFC to perform a Web site redesign that will support the organization’s efforts to leverage information and enhance user experience. The aim is to produce an overall consistent standard across all areas of the site. The Acumen Solutions team will redesign the navigation, flow, and presentation of the www.ifc.org external Web site. The effort is designed to focus on usability, information architecture, and visual design principles.
“Acumen Solutions is delighted about this opportunity,” said John Skeele, director of the financial services practice at Acumen Solutions. “Acumen Solutions and IFC will join forces to create an improved, external-facing Web site to serve their various audiences.”
Acumen Solutions will design templates for the production of the new IFC Web site. Ultimately, this will help IFC create a dynamic in-house framework for their site. The Web site will be distinctive and unified throughout.
“This is an important first step in building the next generation Web site for our organization,” said Stephan Beauchesne, head of Web development at IFC. “Acumen Solutions has the usability expertise, information architecture knowledge, and creative capabilities that we need to make this engagement a success.”
About The Acumen Solutions Financial Services Practice
Acumen Solutions, Inc., a privately held company in Vienna, Va., is a leading management and technology consulting firm that uses a focused, results-oriented approach to develop client specific solutions for communications and financial services companies. Acumen Solutions understands the challenges that the financial services industry faces today: modernization of industry regulations, growing pressures to increase shareholder value, increased demand for new products and services and turning outdated systems into the universally functional business assets they need to be. Our offerings encompass targeted customer relationship management, user interface development and integration and real-time processing evolution. Acumen Solutions provides financial services clients with the right strategy, the right vision and the right real-life solutions. Right from the start. For more information, visit
www.acumensolutions.com
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About IFC
IFC’s mission is to promote sustainable private sector investment in developing countries, helping to reduce poverty and improve people’s lives. IFC finances private sector investments in the developing world, mobilizes capital in the international financial markets, and provides technical assistance and advice to governments and businesses. Since its founding in 1956 through the close of the last fiscal year on June 30, 2001, IFC committed more than $31 billion of its own funds and arranged $20 billion in syndications for 2,636 companies in 140 developing countries. IFC’s committed portfolio at the end of FY01 was $14.3 billion. For more information, visit
www.ifc.org
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