Is your internal or external IT team primarily focused on your organization’s day-to-day operations and system maintenance? Are they working from a break-fix model, without time to focus on relating technology to your organization’s strategic direction? Most organizations’ budgets don’t allow for a Chief Information Officer (CIO). Unfortunately, eliminating this position also eliminates the high-level, strategic technology planning essential to organizational growth and efficiency. Optimal’s Strategic Technology Consulting services can help.
Optimal’s Strategic Technology Consulting helps organizations better use and implement technology to further business goals. You will benefit from:
- A Collaborative, Consultative Relationship with a Trusted Partner. With a pre-determined number of monthly service hours that work for your organization, Optimal becomes your “virtual CIO.” The engagement will most likely begin with an onsite meeting and will continue through a combination of onsite and offsite components.
- Technology Recommendations. Optimal will create and lead internal technology committees and conduct regular meetings with senior leadership to discuss technology recommendations, progress, and improvements.
- Benchmarking Against Industry Best Practices. Optimal will identify additional technologies and best practices being used in organizations similar to yours and see how your systems technologically measure up against competitors.
- Technology S.W.O.T. Analysis. Our team will conduct an analysis of your organization’s technological strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in an effort to identify new technologies for cost savings, operational efficiencies, and competitive advantages.
- Staffing Recommendations. Optimal will assess needs and identify IT position gaps or duplications when appropriate.
- IT Service Evaluation. If your organization has an internal IT team, Optimal can evaluate, benchmark, and improve their service standards.
- Business Process Improvements. Optimal will suggest improvements for business processes that could benefit from the implementation of different technologies.
- Project Planning. Optimal will initiate, budget, and coordinate projects to minimize conflicts and ensure smooth implementations.
- Contract Review and Vendor Selection. Optimal will comprehensively review contracts from technology industry vendors to ensure your benefit.
- Policy and IT Governance Assistance. Optimal professionals will work with your attorney(s) to help you draft policies that mitigate risk, reflect corporate goals, and encompass industry best practices.
- Disaster Recovery Planning. Optimal will help your organization think through how potential disasters would impact your business from a technology standpoint—and help you in developing plans and procedures that would work in the event of the unthinkable.
- Risk Mitigation. With technology comes a certain amount of liability. With Optimal’s strategic guidance, the segments of technology that leave you open to risk will be identified and remediated.
A broader technological perspective is essential to achieving a wide range of business goals. With our Strategic Technology Consulting, you receive guidance specific to your organization’s needs and objectives.
Contact us to find out how Optimal's Strategic Technology Consulting can help you pull ahead of competitors.