An ICT Strategy ensures your investments in information technology delivers results to the whole business. Without careful planning, your IT investments may not align with commercial objectives or resource availability.
Strategic Directions’ ICT Strategy service ensures your IT spend delivers results. This will ensure investment, efficiency, functional performance and resource deployment are aligned with corporate objectives.
Strategic Directions is one of Australia’s leading ICT Strategy and Management specialists, engaged by Federal and State Governments, multinational organisations and Local Government Agencies since 2003 to provide executive-level strategic advice and planning.
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We have all had an ICT Strategic Plan created either by our internal staff, specialised contractor or a consultancy firm.
Even fewer of us have seen this plan through to the end to deliver the intended results.
With the definition for “Strategy” from the Oxford English Dictionary being “a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim.”
We can focus on the premise for strategy being a long-term or overall aim.
The question to ask is,
How is your ICT Strategy coming along in achieving your intended outcomes?
Have you just started the journey?
What is the Optimal way to manage our ICT Strategic Plan?
Are you a few years into the strategy?
Can you see noticeable difference?
Strategic Directions specialises in creating and most importantly executing ICT Strategies for all levels of Government and Large Commercial Organisations. Providing External CIO Advisory Service, implementing ICT methodology and delivering tangable results at all levels within the organisations. Below are some complimentary services we provide to assist you in achieving your end goal.
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Other considerations when developing a model should include:
Understanding what you’re trying to achieve: Has the board tasked you with reducing data center, IT, applications, licensing, telecommunications, security, staff, or other costs? Are you trying to deliver a more nimble IT platform that enables new business objectives?
Having an exit strategy: There are very few systems, platforms, or delivery models (mainframe systems being the general exception) that last more than seven years. What happens after that?
Knowing bandwidth requirements: Can your business run in a centralised/cloud-only manner? How much bandwidth is required to enable a cloud-only solution? How big are the files being transferred each and every time a file is retrieved/saved?
Understanding risks or impacts of telecommunications failures: What happens if you experience internet link failure – at a single site – or the whole net? Remember, the internet has experienced significant DNS and other issues over time.
Finding out if money is an issue: What can you afford to do, or not do?
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