Service Portfolio:
 | Strategic Planning |
Strategic Planning is the systematic clarification and documentation of
what an organization wishes to achieve and how to achieve it. The objective of strategic planning is to set
goals, action steps and measurements constructed to guide performance.
Entrepreneurs and business managers are often so
preoccupied with immediate issues that they lose sight of their ultimate
objectives. That's why a business review or preparation of a strategic plan is
a virtual necessity. A sound plan
should:
Serve as a framework for decisions or for securing support/approval.
Provide a basis for more detailed planning.
Explain the business to others in order to inform, motivate & involve.
Assist benchmarking & performance monitoring.
Within a business, strategic planning may provide overall
direction and strategic management to a company or give specific direction in
areas such as :
Financial strategies
Human resource/organizational development strategies
Information technology deployments
Marketing strategy
 | Technology Investment
Management |
The demands on executives and managers
to demonstrate sound decision-making capabilities are intensifying in today’s
high tech business environment.
Increased expectations of accountability and transparency, and the
necessity to think and plan on a strategic level, cannot be met without
reliable data and dependable analytical tools.
Enterprise
level decision-making, execution of strategic plans, evaluation of outcomes,
and continuous process improvement are dependent on an organizations ability to
gather and manage information.
The fundamental premise of Technology Investment
Management is that technology investment decisions must be made and controlled
by business leaders and aligned with the strategic goals and direction of the
organization to deliver the best possible return on IT investment.
What does Technology Investment Management Provide?
a business methodology for managing IT Investments
a framework enabling leadership to make the important and costly decisions
on when and how to invest in IT with a greater level of objectivity and
transparency
a series of standard, repeatable processes which not only facilitate
management’s ability to make good investment decisions, but to oversee and
control those investments
a means of assessing IT
investments as a basis for continuously improving future decision making
| Business Continuity Planning |
In the days since 9-11, Hurricane Katrina and
other major disasters it has become increasingly important for businesses to be
prepared for any kind of disruption to daily activities. Business Continuity Planning prepares an
organization to be able to continue critical operations within a predetermined
time after an event of any type that has disrupted service delivery. The execution of a business continuity plan
is a business function, to restore critical business operations in the shortest
possible time. This should not be
confused with information technology, disaster recovery planning which in fact
may be a subset of a business continuity plan.
| Project Management |
Project management is a methodical approach to
planning and guiding project processes from start to finish. According to the
Project Management Institute, the processes are guided through five stages:
initiation, planning, executing, controlling, and closing. Project management
can be applied to almost any type of project and is widely used to control the
complex processes of software development projects.
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