Advisory - CIO/CSO
We offer technology leaders a complete suite of services and tools supported by the broad knowledge base of our professionals. Our combined industry experience, functional business understanding, management capability, geographic reach and technical depth can meet your specific needs in these areas:
- IT Strategy and Planning: Integrating business and IT processes to allow for continuous assessment and necessary adjustments in response to new opportunities and changing market conditions.
- IT Value Management: Formalizing the tools and processes needed to bring fiscal discipline to the IT function, enabling clients to run IT as a business.
- IT Transformation: Working with clients to reshape technology operations and organization to achieve their vision for IT, guiding them through what can be a turbulent — yet extraordinarily high-value — change.
- IT Sourcing Advisory: Examining the cost structures and service levels of current IT sourcing, whether insourced or outsourced and evaluating the options to improve cost and service through internal adjustments, vendor selection, contract negotiation and sourcing execution.
- IT Assessment and Due Diligence: Evaluating IT strengths and risks across a wide array of IT disciplines, whether for current leaders looking to improve their organization or for a potential buyer seeking to understand whether IT will ultimately be an asset or a liability to the acquisition.
- Business IT Governance: Institutionalizing the capacity to guide the formulation of IT strategy and plans, develop and implement initiatives and oversee IT operations in order to minimize risk, maximize return and build current and future value.
Our powerful and flexible tools
Our practitioners draw upon a broad array of experience, models, leading-edge practices, diagnostics and management frameworks to accelerate and improve the quality of projects. Powerful, yet flexible, this intellectual property provides a solid foundation for jump-starting projects and is readily adaptable to particular organizations and situations. Our tools include:
CIO Overview of Framework: An integrated view of the key disciplines, processes, organization structures, performance measures, and tools required to deliver and manage IT in large organizations.
Enterprise Value Map: A relationship framework depicting practical links between shareholder value and the actions companies can take to improve it.
IT Value: Planning or implement a plan to insure enabling improved business return from IT investment through more effective allocation and management of assets and capital.
IT Due Diligence and Assessment: Supports rapid, effective, and complete assessments of an organization's IT capabilities and spend at several levels.
Program Leadership Diagnostic: Analyzes and shows improvement needs in seven dimensions: benefits management, risk management, structure, organization, resource management, communications, and capability.
Business Model Innovation: An empirically based approach to creating customer and shareholder value.
IT Resource Strategy Methodology: Helps align career paths to strategic competencies and skills, identifies opportunities to share resources and supports the creation of new roles and strategic IT competencies.
