Strategic Technology Consulting
For many organisations, the IT management framework wasn’t created all at once according to a cohesive strategy. More likely, it was built up over the years to address competing or changing strategies — resulting in many parts that don’t always work together. With limited resources available for improvement projects, a technology governance initiative is often rejected as too complex and resource hungry to be appropriate. However, without a structured and transparent plan, the IT function of an organisation risks being overwhelmed with conflicting departmental needs, restricted budgets and changing technology trends. Furthermore, it will rarely get credit for the considerable cost and effort entailed in simply keeping the lights on.
The Datasouth Consulting Approach
In helping executives and information technology managers, Datasouth Consulting have provided a complete project lifecycle for the development of such programmes. Our engagement model ensures an enabled decision making process is followed and ultimately assists in building a robust and compliant framework which meets all relevant, tangible requirements of the organisation. Throughout the project, we partner closely with senior members of the organisation to review the findings and develop the agreed technology framework.
What Datasouth Consulting Delivers
There are many different definitions as to what governance means and what an effective governance program involves. What’s more, the difficulty often isn’t in charting an effective strategy to manage the IT function — the frustration comes when the attempts are hampered by an IT infrastructure that is inflexible, inefficient and not married strongly enough to business strategy. Using a proven engagement model, Datasouth Consulting is able to map out the components of the IT function and develop a prioritised approach to close any gaps in alignment to the business strategies they need to support.
Through the Datasouth Consulting team, our clients have access to a range of technology governance services including:
- Technology and project risk management
- Outsourcing management and systems selection
- Technology resource management
- Operational control solutions (ITIL and CoBIT)
The result is a highly focused plan identifying where change needs to happen and to help prioritise IT management initiatives, highlighting which efforts will have the greatest short-term impact.
