There are many times when you need to quickly come to grips with where your IT organisation is at.
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Following mergers, acquisitions and divestments. When IT Budgets are slashed. These situations invariably results in higher expectations being raised for the CIO, and ultimately means you have to do more with less. Based on more than 25 years of experience as a CEO, consultant and educator helping CIO’s both overseas and in Australia to make sense of what needs to be done, it is my considered opinion that most questions can be resolved by understanding where you are today. Remarkable as it may seem, but most (significantly most) IT organisations do not really understand their current situation or the impact that plans and projects will have on the current infrastructure. |
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What you need is an impartial set of business diagnostic tools which will help you focus your IT issues and disciplines for maximum return on investment.
You and your enterprise will benefit by being able to:
- Identify and choose what key area’s you want to look into based on your own unique circumstances.
- Develop & thrive when market conditions suddenly change by knowing what to cut, where to cut and how deep to cut.
- Gain and keep momentum to stay ahead of your competition.
- Receive hands on guidance as an existing CIO or help new CIO’s quickly understand what capabilities, gaps and issues you and your enterprise face.
You can choose where you want to start your investigation. The diagnostics draw heavily on industry benchmarks, standards and methodologies but are inherently pragmatic and designed to be completed quickly, with a minimum of fuss and maximum leverage.
IT Health Check
How well is your IT performing? Where do you need to focus your attention? Are the business views and the IT views aligned when it comes to performance? Would a benchmark of industry comparisons help you to take action where it needs to be focussed? Does your budget allow the luxury to do everything?
The IT Health Check is a performance and importance diagnostic which draws on the principles behind “The Wisdom Of Crowds” to create a broad-based assessment of how your IT Organisation is performing across the dimensions of:
- IT Governance & Strategic Alignment
- Performance & Risk Management
- IT Operations & Management
- Applications Delivery & Project Management
- Vendor & Relationship Management;
- Skills & Talent Management, combined with Communications & Knowledge Management
The IT Readiness and Maturity Assessment combines a series of individual and group interviews with specific questions about the IT practices and artefacts used in your organisation and a series of industry standard benchmark and performance measures. This project will take between 4 and 6 weeks and is conducted on a fixed price basis and is a Consultant driven structured approach engagement, to measuring how well IT and the Business are aligned to deliver value.
This diagnostic is usually completed in 4 to 6 weeks.
IT & Business Strategic Alignment
Do you know how well your IT and enterprise are aligned to deliver maximum value?
This diagnostic service, Consultant driven engagement commences by gaining an understanding of your Business strategy and IT strategy, by creating a diagnostic instrument that coincides to specific issues related to your strategy. We then combine those with a series of industry benchmarks and metrics to measure your IT & Business Strategic Alignment in a formal and structured manner. This project is invaluable to developing and staying competitive, is non-invasive on your time takes between 6 and 8 weeks.
Enterprise Architecture Readiness & Maturity Assessment
A Consultant driven engagement, the Enterprise Architecture Readiness & Maturity diagnostic is a formal and structured approach to measuring how well your IT organisations is performing the tasks of EA and what needs to be done to further develop or formalise EA.
The EA Readiness and Maturity Assessment incorporates a series of individual and group interviews, an examination of existing EA Artefacts with specific questions about the EA practices used in your organisation with reference to TOGAF as a formal framework against which to measure your organisations maturity.
This project will usually take between 6 and 8 weeks.
IT Portfolio Prioritisation, Resilience & Risk Assessment
The IT Portfolio Prioritisation & Risk Assessment builds a model of your current inventory of IT Applications and In-flight projects. Working with your organisation we compile a detailed measurement of full life-cycle costs of each application. The applications are modelled against either a company specific Business Reference Model or industry standard BRM.
The Diagnostic Assessment then examines the Business Value & Strategic Alignment of each application and measures the Business Risk across the dimensions of “scope of impact” and “resilience” and compares business risk to an assessment of Technology Risk.
If the data is available within your organisation then this project can be completed in 10 to 12 weeks.