We help companies assess their capabilities, strengths and areas of improvement so that they can make informed, evidenced based decisions to help shape and grow their business. Find out how our approach to IT advisory can help you operate your Run, Grow or Transform capability.
Our advisory services offer a real partnership with your business on a scalable and flexible basis. This helps you Run, Grow or Transform your IT function whilst being able to control and predict costs.
We offer a free capability assessment that will help you to understand your IT functions strengths and areas of improvement and importantly, how it currently aligns to company objectives. We can then work with you to develop a robust action plan to address any necessary changes needed to build high performing, successful IT functions whilst continuing to leverage existing IT investments that are suitable over the near and long term.
Why you might need support
- IT function delivers in a service provider model, with siloed and reactive support capabilities.
- Complex applications portfolio, frequent application outages and little integration between systems.
- Data isn’t well understood, or there are to many “versions of the truth”.
- No alignment on risk appetite, or risks are not well understood and managed.
How we can help
- Transform the IT function into delivering as an integrated and proactive strategic business partner having built a consensus within your business on the priorities.
- Build Technology, applications and integration roadmaps to chart the changes and easily communicate them with the broader business. Remove unnecessary applications, reduce cost and build knowledge and trust in the systems that remain, improving both performance and availability.
- Create data governance capabilities and deliver data warehouse solutions that provide trusted access to single versions of truth.
- Build comprehensive risk management strategies, including disaster recovery planning and testing.
Business Benefits
- Clarity of purpose with a review of your existing Strategic Plan, what makes your business different and ensuring your IT function understands the role that it plays.
- Ensure senior leaders within your business are in agreement on the priorities to deliver the strategic plan.
- Delivery of a Target Operating Model that brings together the key elements of People, Process and Technology.
- A review of your existing technology roadmaps or creation of new roadmaps where none exist, to chart the technology changes your business now needs to make to achieve the overarching strategic plan.
- An analysis of current spend, highlighting where your IT function spend money and how this aligns back to the organisations strategic vision.
- A review of investment decisions from the IT Roadmap, building the associated cost models to support the investments.
- Actionable insight, helping you to determine which investments should be brought forward and which should be delayed or aborted.