These days, as never before, technology plays a pivotal role in enabling strategic business development and growth of an Organisation and ensuring its agility and resilience in the flurry of ever-changing and evolving industries and markets. With more and more emerging technological know-hows and inventions disrupting the traditional sense and views on the automation / digital landscape of Organisations, the harder it takes to craft the right set of solutions for the IT architecture from a myriad of options. Especially, in the light of the growing challenges of cost-cutting, enhanced efficiency, stringent compliance and cyber-crime threats.
We are here to help Organisations to navigate the spectrum and diversity of technological advancements - both industry specific and cross-cutting - and build / evolve their IT landscapes with clarity and confidence. So that it truly supports and enables achievement of strategic development objectives, priorities and endeavours.
Development of the target IT architecture
- Assessment of the current IT architecture covering applications, network and infrastructure components and identifying key areas and opportunities for their evolvement (functional, technical, architectural etc.) in-line with the business needs and external matters of impact - competition, compliance, market / industry trends etc..
- Design of the target IT architecture taking into account key Organisation’s expectations and needs, local legal and regulatory specifics, as well as considering globally recognised standards and practices (TOGAF, NIST, COBIT, ITIL, ISO etc.).
- Subject-matter support with planning and implementation of the target IT architecture and its orchestration with other business development initiatives of an Organisation.
- Independent review of the target IT architecture deployment progress and providing recommendations on the necessary changes and improvements to consider along the way.
Strengthening IT governance
Review of existing IT governance and organisation frameworks and practices in order to capture the current stance and identify key prospective areas to consider for further enhancement.
Expert support with further evolvement of existing IT governance and organisational practices including but not limited to development of outstanding policies and procedures (and /or updating of the existing ones), defining the target organisational structure of the IT function, outlining key resource and expertise needs, design of the ultimate IT governance processes in-line with globally recognised standards and practices (COBIT, ITIL, ISO etc.) and taking into account key relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
Capacity building of key Organisation’s stakeholders on IT governance and organisation matters.
Enhancing IT project management
Overview of existing practices and approaches to IT project management.
Expert support with set-up or re-shape of the IT project management office (IT PMO) and its integration in the wider Organisation's corporate project management activities.
Development and support with implementation of IT project management policies, processes and tools in-line with key recognised classical and agile standards and practices (PMBOK, PRINCE 2 and etc).
Capacity building of key Organisation’s stakeholders on IT project management matters.
Support with IT systems / vendors selection
Helping to define key functional, technical and architectural requirements across different types of IT solutions for automating core and supporting business operations.
Conducting overview of IT systems / solutions of different classes available on the market including support with arrangement of reference visits and demo-stand presentations.
Assistance with scoping and running of “proof of concept” exercises for bed-testing of IT solutions available on the market against their applicability and extent of coverage of an Organisation’s needs.
IT risk management
Support with enhancement of institutional IT risk management practices (in-line local legal / regulatory requirements and those stipulated by COBIT, ITIL, ISO and etc.) covering respective governance and organisation matters, policies and procedures, processes and workflows, application tools, communication, monitoring and reporting mechanisms, etc.
Conducting independent IT risk assessments including support with development of outstanding response measures and implementation of those.
