Assessment of business strategy, objectives and goals and obstacles to success. Assessment of legal, regulatory and political influencers on business strategy and their impact on a technology solution. Assessment of ICT’s ability to address the business strategy, influence it for greater growth, increased efficiencies and reduced costs. Measure and design around the GAP between capability and coping with the business plans. Build Strategy with road map, budgeting for 1, 3 and 5 year plans. Looking at infrastructure (voice, data and multi media), through to applications and application development. ICT Support structures to support R&D, Security, Infrastructure, Server, Database and Data Centre, Desktop, Application management, 1st Line support. Disaster recovery plans, redundancy and resiliency. Risk Management, policy and governance.
Convergence and Unified Communications
Understanding the real meaning and value of Convergence, UC (Unified Communications) and VoIP, where it can add true business value by driving increased revenues and improving efficiencies. Cutting through the vendor view of how UC (their product) adds value. Having worked for and partnered the leading vendors, I have a strong knowledge and experience to offer independent assessment and evaluation. In addition I have access to a network of global technology experts and researchers to support any evaluation.
Technology and Vendor Assessment
What are the business objectives and needs. What technologies, applications and services address these, and from/by whom and how to get the best from them. As above.
Project implementation and management
30 years of carrier experience at Director and Account Management levels, Prince 2 Project Management, from delivering simple change requests through to large, complex global propositions in IT, networking, telephony and multi media. Whether existing, incomplete projects or from scratch, taking ideas through ITT, vendor selection, delivery and to operational use.
Any company that has an international or Global presence or aspires to one, needs to understand the highly complex and difficult issues around delivering a ICT solution to meet the business needs: Time zones, different technologies, different pricing structures, different lead times, delivery methodologies, regulations, cultures and so on. And how do you support it going forward?
ICT Advisory and Project Management
