STRATEGIC IT PLANNING
Is your IT infrastructure able to meet the future goals of your business?
Challenges faced by business enterprises and organizations require the formulation, evaluation, and action upon critical decisions that affect their current standing and future development.
With new technologies emerging so quickly, especially small and medium-sized businesses may not be able to keep up. Yet without the right IT infrastructure and tools in place, your business may not be reaching its full potential.
Our proactive Strategic IT Planning (SITP) and IT Consultancy services, help you maximize the value of your IT infrastructure. We will regularly sit down with your team to discuss business goals and requirements in order to help you make well-informed technology decisions when planning for now and the future.
Our Strategic IT Planning Consultancy Process:
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Planning and maintaining an IT strategy starts with an audit and IT inventory: servers and workstations, phone systems and handsets, mobiles, application software, WAN connections, LAN cabling and Wi-Fi, printers, Audio-Visual, security procedures, backup, business continuity planning, lifecycle, and users.
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Define Business IT Goals and Requirements: We consult with the business team to understand its objectives, requirements, and priorities for both short term and long term. Once this is defined, we consider different products and assess their value according to the criteria specifically identified for your organization.
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A gap analysis: We highlight areas where IT could be improved to meet the needs of your business. Then, we can make recommendations and discuss the pros and cons of each in a collaborative process.
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A well-defined roadmap: We prepare a roadmap, highlighting the next steps, deliverables, timescales, resources, and priorities, as well as justifications for each activity which will take the organization from where it is now to where it’s aiming to go including major decisions.
Benefits of having an IT Strategy Advice
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Improved decision making: You will have a much better understanding of how technology can help enable your business and a much better appreciation of how important technology is to wider business goals. Additionally, it will help justify needed increases in budget or talent.
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Operational Efficiency: You can scale your operations easily, standardize tools and workflows to get the job done, identify misaligned and out of date solutions and replace them with the most fitted ones to your business goals.
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Increased IT department effectiveness: By having a clear IT strategy, your IT department will be better able to anticipate resourcing needs, plan projects, select software and vendors and well as improve their budgeting. They will also be able to start envisaging how technology could better be used to help the business going forward.
