Strategy & Planning
There is never a good excuse for IT management not having a formally documented IT Plan or Strategic Roadmap. We often find that organisations operating without an appropriate IT plan are unable to engage in sufficient levels of proactive management. Instead they take on a fire fighting mentality which leads to increased levels of risk, operating inefficiencies and ultimately poor outcomes for the business.
IT Strategy Planning
There is never a good excuse for IT management not having a formally documented IT Plan or Strategic Roadmap. We often find... Read more
Strategic Network Transformation
Driven by the perfect storm of technology improvement and digital disruption many organisations find themselves in the position of needing to undertake... Read more
Digital Enablement Strategy
While many organisations went through massive technology and digital change due to the economy wide COVID disruptions, it has been common to... Read more
Data & Analytics / BI Strategy
With the digitisation of the workplace and the complexities of IT environments, planning complementary initiatives that uplift and align organisational wide capabilities... Read more
IT Disaster Recovery Planning
IT Disaster Recovery Planning is a critical part of any organisation’s IT infrastructure to ensure Business Continuity in the face of a... Read moreProcess and Architectural Improvement
Beyond Technology Consulting’s Technology Process & Architectural Improvement practice is focused on assisting organisations to improve and align ICT capabilities with broader... Read more
Symptoms of poor, or absent, IT planning include:
- Reactionary rather than preventative attitude towards problem fixing
- Ongoing infrastructure capacity constraints
- Inefficient use of capital and operational funds
- Poorly aligned IT policies that impact the efficiency of the business (such as mailbox size limits)
- Inability to deliver on business requirements in a timely manner
- The “resource crunch” – no time to do the job properly
- No capacity to provide evidence that supports critical budget or project requests
- Defensive attitude of IT help desk staff
- Business units making technology decisions without the involvement of IT
- Loss of executive management “faith” in IT service delivery
A good quality IT plan will help management to find the right balance between business usual activities and the planned projects that deliver enhancements to services and capabilities. It can also be used as a tool to unlock funding from the business that enables key IT initiatives that would otherwise remain underfunded and undeployable.
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Our business outcomes
Beyond Technology advise businesses on how to optimise the use of IT to achieve business outcomes.
Beyond Technology Consulting has several ways to help CFO’s and CIO’s to improve their organisation’s balance sheet. Our consultants are highly skilled in identifying how to optimise your IT costs to ensure that you are taking advantage of the technology available to your organisation.
Many organisations carry a significant IT failure risk without understanding either the potential or consequences of failure. Quantifying the latent risk, and taking steps to mitigate it not only makes good business sense, it often provides significant improvement in the efficiency and availability of “business as usual” IT service.
With the growing demands on IT departments it can be all too easy to focus on rapidly expanding capability and addressing the day-to-day challenges of running the technology. Properly aligning IT to direct business requirements, while improving the communication channels between IT and the business delivers massive efficiency and capability improvements.
Digital and Technology enablement is critical to all business's growth plans, and without appropriate IT foundations and planning your growth journey will be lost at sea. Aligning your technology planning to your business strategy and ensuring appropriate priority is given to future enablement projects makes a decisive difference to your business growth plans.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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In most professions where information is asymmetric (i.e. the professional could take advantage of knowing more about the subject that they are advising you on) such as Lawyers and Doctors, the governing body can deregister the professional as stop them from practicing. This does not happen with Technology professionals so conflict of interest is a critical problem. Similarly when a technologist is heavily invested in one specific technology it often becomes their go-to solution (to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail). By Maintaining our independence, Beyond Technology Consulting ensures that you are provided with unbiased and actionable advice that you can trust is free from conflict of interest and be assured that we are not monetising the advice that we provide you.
"Actionable Advice" is accessible, accurate and is advice that is provided in a language and manner that does not require technical qualifications to understand. We ensure that our recommendations are fit-for-purpose with an understanding of the context of your organisation to be both affordable and achievable.
We focus on understanding the core requirements of the business so that our advice is based on your requirements not the avaliable technology. This ensures that you don't end up with a solution looking for a problem and ensures that technology outcomes will grow with your business and flex with changes in the technology.
We focus on understanding the core requirements of the business so that our advice is based on your requirements not the avaliable technology. This combined with a bias towards flexible technology solutions helps to provide technology outcomes that will grow with your business and flex with changes in the technology.
There are two key reasons that organisations don't undertake regular independent technology reviews. Firstly many boards and executive don't know that organisations like Beyond Technology Consulting exist and they are left thinking that the only options are IT Audits that are provided by the big accounting firms that don't provide any answers or actionable advice. The second reason is that they don't feel that they understand enough about IT to be able to get value from a review. Beyond Technology Consulting understands this and have designed our organisation to provide "Actionable Advice" that is accessible, accurate and provided in a language and manner that does not require technical qualifications to understand.
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