Strategy – IT direction aligned with your business

Your IT strategy is a critical component in bringing your business vision to life. Northdoor’s IT strategy consultants deliver world-class analysis of your present and future needs to provide IT direction that will speed the progress of all or part of your organisation.

Information Technology Strategy Study

With IT options becoming more complex and diverse than ever before, selecting the right approach for your business is vital for its success. Northdoor’s IT strategy studies are designed to apply best-in-class thinking to your IT requirements and recommend the most effective strategy for you.

An IT strategy study has five main phases:

•  Assess critical success factors
•  Assess existing business processes
•  Assess existing IT support structure
•  Review key findings
•  Propose IT strategy.

The first three phases of the study are conducted through a programme of structured interviews and workshops that identify key issues and challenge the match of existing IT structures with business processes and success factors.

The ‘key findings’ phase is an intensive review session with senior management to resolve any anomalies, to obtain commitment and to discuss the likely IT strategy, recommendations and commercial issues.

The final phase delivers a strategy proposal in report and presentation formats, and also includes a steady process of reinforcing management support and commitment.

Management Information Strategy

Our  Management Information Strategy approach is based on the straight-forward premise of establishing an understanding of your current situation, business issues and future goals. We will then contrast this against our vision of a Management Information strategy for your business and establish a set of recommendations for achieving this.

We start by gaining a high-level overview of the business mission, organisational structure and systems infrastructure, the approach is a 4-step process of:

• Investigation
• Confirmation
• Envisioning
• Recommendation

Business Analysis

In certain cases, a review of the business itself can provide invaluable insight into IT issues. Our business analysis service provides the following benefits:

• Understanding of business objectives and constraints
• Analysis and documentation of business data and processes
• Matching business requirements against objectives and assessing priorities
• Confirming business requirements with related businesses and senior management
• Documenting and presenting the results of the business analysis

 Consultancy in Action