Information Technology is a tool to improve employee productivity, business agility, reduce risks and gain a competitive advantage. To achieve those results IT must align with business goals and capabilities. The challenge is that both evolve as your business grows. That means any IT strategy must also evolve and grow to stay in alignment with your business and continue to be an asset. We offer IT strategy planning services that achieve alignment and results.
Ensuring your IT is ready for future growth, risks, and ready to deliver on value.
Helping you understand the exact value of your IT investments.
Developing strategies that improve change management through IT.
Make sure your IT empowers your employees to deliver value.
Our strategy models identify business and IT enablers that help you achieve goals and reduce risk. We also define the execution strategies that it will take to achieve the strategy and business goals we define. Afterall a strategy that is unrealistic either in its scope or execution is worthless. Our goal is to develop a holistic business strategy with action items, milestones and gates to help you along your business journey.
It is our confidence in our service that allows us to be a different kind of IT management company. We do not accept any money from third party services, we never overcharge or inflate our hours, in short we do what is right for you, putting our customers first. It is how we are different and how we are committed to long term customer partnerships aligned on mutual success and growth.
Future Strategic Alignment
The first step in developing a future state IT strategy, is knowing where your technology, processes and people are right now. That is the goal of our current state strategy assessment and part of the overall delivery of a future strategy alignment. If there are challenges and gaps, we work with you to improve those and aligning any future states around realistic timelines.
Once your business is ready, we start gathering business goals and requirements. Those create the basis of future state targets and define the steps needed to achieve success. We map out milestones so you can measure success along the journey. They are tied to business deliverables ensuring continuous value as you grow.
IT (Digital) impacts three major areas of your business directly. These are the three major areas that we focus on with our value alignment strategy planning. The goal is to determine the best solutions or validate solutions to determine what is the greatest investment for your resources. At times our conclusion has been to avoid investments in certain areas or technologies because of the impact to one area. For example, you may want to implement a technology to improve processes. However that technology would be costly and upset people by changing they way they work in a negative way.
We ask questions around how will technology impact the daily routine of your employees. We also explore impacts to clients, partners and vendors.
We perform process mapping to understand the impacts of technology changes. Specifically we want to indentify negative and positive outcomes.
We evaluate the total cost, value and risk of implementing technology services and solutions. We help identify the real costs of your investmtents over time.
Building an IT strategy aligned with business goals is challenging. In fact, it is the single greatest challenge for IT professionals and executives. The reason is that there are not one size fits all models like COBIT or TOGAF. IT-Business strategies require intimate knowledge of the business and extend into nearly every aspect of both.
Whether you are looking to manage specific change or looking for holistic digital transformation we can help. We look at 7 areas of your business and technology to develop a comprehensive strategy plan that achieves your goals. Through that exercise you will identify areas of opportunity and improvement that can be developed into parallel strategy plans. One of the biggest benefits of this approach is how well it merges into an overarching Organizational Development strategy plan.
Most companies don’t have time to focus on IT strategy and most IT MSPs charge for strategizing time. The result is technology strategy planning doesn’t occur. That causes severe misalignment between your business and future technology that can give you a competitive advantage. We don’t charge for strategy planning and since we get to know your business we can even perform strategy planning for you. Our success is not the hours we bill but how much you grow and succeed.
IT MSPs that don’t charge for strategy time are usually recommending solutions that give them margins or kick backs. We never accept money in any form from the services we recommend or implement. We try to pass those savings to you.
IT has a profound impact on how people work and interact with each other. That is the basis of company work culture. IT can make work easier, improve accountability and promote transparency. That goes a long way to have an amazing work culture.
Technology can help attract, motivate and retain top talent. Implementing solutions that allow for working anywhere providing instant communication and collaboration are powerful benefits for many workers. Attract talent that even from fortune 500 companies.
Nobody likes cubicles, few people like open office concepts. Use technology to bridge the gaps and implement workspaces that everyone loves. Promote working from home to save money on office. There are hundreds of options to save money and increase work productivity.
There are no extra costs for technology research, selection, implementation or management. We are your complete IT department at a fixed and flexible cost. Stop dealing with hidden fees, renegotiations and subpar support. Make the switch to total IT Management today.