Planning

Business strategies and tactics of modern organizations can only be realized through the exploitation of advanced IT. Aligning the IT strategy of an organization with its business strategy is a task of major importance and complexity.

CLIENT GOALS

  • Build or purchase state-of-the-art information systems in order to support their operations
  • Ensure integration with existing IT infrastructure of their own organization but also of external partners and clients when they have a new information system installed
  • Guarantee maximum return on investment and acceptance of the new IT infrastructure by their employees, partners and clients
  • Achieve best timing of their IT implementation with respect to other projects and developments, and to technology market changes in general

BENEFITS

  • Understand the objectives, potential, and existing way of working and infrastructure of clients
  • Develop an ambitious vision of future IT-supported ways of working, based on their thorough knowledge of cutting-edge market offerings and business best practices
  • Produce appropriate systems and networks architecture, at different levels of detail, in order to explain their vision to all interested parties: clients, vendors and IT implementer
  • Design integration solutions in order to enable communication between new and existing systems
  • Apply professional project management methodologies and deliver detailed plans for the realization of IT strategies, with a view to achieve best timing and optimum utilization of resources

Assessments

Today, more than ever, companies are scrutinizing the value they receive from their Information Technology function. Given all the advancements in IT, it is difficult for companies to assess this value using internal resources. We provide a comprehensive and thorough review of your company’s technology environment. We will appraise the complete technology landscape and provide a written evaluation and recommendation on how to use technology in order to best meet your company’s business goals and objectives. We use leading practices and industry recognized methods within our assessment. The assessment includes, but is not limited to: Leadership, management, organization, and governance Strategy and plans Skills and competencies Application and data architecture and solutions Network and communication architecture and performance Infrastructure and data center operations IT processes, methods and tools Vendor arrangements and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Disaster recovery planning and backup solutions Emerging technology assessment and reviews; and Budgets and investment plans. Our IT Assessment provides a snapshot of your company’s IT environment and gives you an unbiased, third party perspective on the effectiveness of the strategy and plans, systems, staff, budget, vendors, procedures and company policies – allowing you to make the critical decisions about IT with a complete picture.