With our help you can make sure your technology is supporting your business strategy, that your projects achieve their commercial goals, that your journey through the coming years is a succession of sensible and prudent investment and that technology is the so-called "enabler" that you demand.
So, whether you're rewriting your IT Strategy, or have a merger or project which needs practical advice, talk to us. And if you're looking for competitive advantage over your peers, then really talk to us. Or if you'd just like to benchmark yourself against those peers, talk with us too.
Every business has an IT Strategy. Even if a business has no plans to change any aspect of its IT or sees no need to exploit new technology, then that, in itself, is it’s IT Strategy.
A "Necessary Good"...
We believe having a written IT Strategy is a “necessary good”. Agreeing a broad but practical overall plan as to how your business will exploit technologies and manage its existing resources is particularly useful within a professional services firm. It should set out priorities, serve as a method of communicating IT teams’ activities and be a context for new needs or opportunities which arise. It can be used to ensure stakeholder needs are discussed and agreed. When owned by an effective “governing body”, it becomes even more powerful, ensuring investment is properly prioritised and ensuring that IT progress is in line with overall business needs.
...Or a Luxury?
But is it a luxury you cannot afford, in terms of time or other business priorities? Professional services firms are fast-moving, often entrepreneurial, and there may be no formally written business strategy to align to. IT Managers and Directors too can be afraid of full-blown prioritisation because aspects that they might consider essential, such as server or infrastructure upgrades, could be dropped. For many firms, the IT Strategy then becomes little more than the IT budget, often with no stakeholder discussion or agreement. Prioritisation then becomes a major challenge with, in the worst case, too many projects being attempted at once, project approval being granted to those who “shout loudest” and important initiatives being lost.
Let Us Help
We can help. We can advise you on how to pull together your IT strategy, benchmark you against your peers, facilitate discussions and give you our experience of successful innovation, large scale IT operations and project management to help you reach sensible conclusions. We can do the leg work in terms of collating information, meeting stakeholders and writing documentation. And, remember, this is about creating a broad but practical plan, not turning over every stone.
Let us help you make sense of where you are today, so you are in the best of places tomorrow.
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