CIO/CTO Advisory Solutions:

 

Advisory Council


As an executive or leader for your company, chances are you often have questions about market opportunities, transformative technologies, or industry challenges and need to bounce ideas off of individuals who have been through it before. If you haven't had the time to set up your own active Advisory Board, or you are looking to infuse your Council with new innovative ideas and thought leadership, then StrataFusion's Advisory Council can support your objectives. You have limited time, limited resources and perhaps even limited industry experience, but you see an opportunity and are focused on growing your business and a successful Advisory Council with StrataFusion will open many doors and opportunities.

 

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IT Strategy & Technology Planning


Today's IT leaders must balance demands to squeeze more value out of IT budgets while continuing in the role as a primary business enabler and catalyst for growth. To optimize results, organizations must continue to control the cost of IT and determine where to invest to gain a competitive advantage and build new capabilities.

 

StrataFusion understands the challenges and opportunities companies face, and has built world-class IT strategy consulting capabilities to help organizations capitalize on emerging growth prospects while maintaining high levels of IT efficiency. Our IT Strategy & Technology Planning engagement helps companies shape the direction of IT to maximize shareholder and business value.  StrataFusion helps you set a strategic course that links your business challenges with leading-edge thinking on technology issues.  We help your organization develop the right IT strategy and technology blueprint—as well as an actionable plan.

 

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IT Operational Assessment & Performance Review

 

IT organizations must meet a set of rising expectations. On the one hand, they must deliver effective, high-quality solutions consistently that help drive high performance. On the other, they need to minimize both cost and risk. IT can be hampered in achieving these objectives by inefficient processes, low productivity, poor governance or inadequate quality. 

 

StrataFusion's IT Operational Assessment & Performance Review solution helps evaluate 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.

 

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IT Cloud Transformation


As with any big idea that rocks the technology world, there's a lot of confusion about cloud services and what they mean to the business. We all see the potential for cheaper and faster, but that's just the beginning. Cloud makes it possible to do entirely new things, too. From business model innovation to breakthroughs in information technology (IT) service delivery, value opportunities abound if you know where to look.


With StrataFusion's IT Cloud Transformation solution, we work with you to explore the most viable scenarios for reshaping IT's technology operations and organization to achieving your vision for IT. StrataFusion will guide you through what can be turbulent, yet extraordinarily high-value change.

 

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IT Sourcing Strategy


Economic turmoil and the pressure to reduce costs are accelerating the pace at which organizations expect to transform key operational areas. IT is no exception, and even where progress has been made, boards are now looking for more. The CIO will be held accountable for driving increasingly complex levels of change and strategic  stssourcing  is a way of achieving this objective.

 

StrataFusion IT Sourcing Strategy solution examines the cost structures and service levels of your current IT sourcing, whether insourced or outsourced and evaluating the options to improve cost and service through internal adjustments, vendor selection, contract negotiations, and sourcing execution.

 

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Technology Value Management


Achieving and measuring value from IT investments has been a key problem for IT organizations. Many CIOs today have low confidence in the accuracy of their ROI estimates for IT investments. To address this need, StrataFusion has developed a set of frameworks and road-maps to help IT and Business executives demonstrate and deliver more value out of IT. StrataFusion's IT Value Management solution formalizes the tools and processes needed to bring fiscal discipline to the IT function, enabling clients to run IT like a business.

 

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Business IT Governance


IT Governance deals with how the business makes decisions about the deployment and delivery of IT. When sound IT Governance is in place, senior executives not only know their organization's IT plans and policies, they also know how they are made. IT Governance is about the specification of decision rights and responsibilities required to ensure effective and efficient use of IT. StrataFusion's Business IT Governance solution helps institutionalize the capacity to guide the formation 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.

 

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1.0 ASSESS

OVERVIEW

StrataFusion's Assessment stage helps optimize program decision-making by evaluating the current-state environment for all IT towers/domains under evaluation, their shortcomings, and the relative value of opportunities for each scenario under consideration for improvement.

SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)

  • Strategic IT Drivers
  • Baseline Assessment(s)
  • Improvement Criteria
  • Scenario Analysis
2.0 DEFINE

OVERVIEW

The primary objective of StrataFusion's Definition stage is to create the definitive and authoritative position on the 'blueprint' for the program -- so that every individual and team is working towards the same goal, and that every stakeholder is expecting the same outcomes.

SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)

  • Solution Requirements Functional Report
  • Solution Requirements Technical Report
  • Data Models
  • Architecture Diagrams
  • High-Level Action Plan
3.0 DESIGN

OVERVIEW

StrataFusion's detailed Design leadership translates requirements from the Definition stage into detailed specifications needed to support the technology transformation efforts including the technical architecture, applications configuration, system interfaces and data conversion necessary to ensure a successful program.

SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)

  • User Interface Design
  • Business Component Design
  • Report Design
  • Data Mapping
  • Integration Design
  • Conversion Design
  • Systems Architecture
4.0 DEPLOY

OVERVIEW

StrataFusion's Deployment stage helps focus on the execution of the pre-defined rollout plan, a complex coordination of resources and solution components that all must come together over a short period of time, including data conversion, production environment readiness, source code migration, end-user training, and transition execution and sign-off.

SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)

  • Executed Conversion and Data Transfer Reports
  • Support Escalation Procedures
  • Help Desk Policies & Procedures
  • Inventory of System Documentation
  • Contact and Support Procedures List
5.0 OPTIMIZE

OVERVIEW

StrataFusion's Optimization stage helps organizations to effectively manage the ongoing support of an IT solution release, while ensuring that the solution meets targeted business needs and is adopted effectively.

SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)

  • Support Knowledge Base
  • Executed System Enhancements
  • Solution Evaluation Report
  • ROI Validation Report
  • Optimization Action Plan
PROGRAM / CHANGE MANAGEMENT

OVERVIEW

StrataFusion's Program Management leadership helps establish the creation of a Program Charter that articulates the purpose, scope, and operation of the PMO. StrataFusion's Change Management leadership helps to eliminate the program risk specifically associated with the human component of the change initiative by implementing methods for improving personnel acceptance and adoption.

SAMPLE DELIVERABLES (Partial List)

  • Program Charter
  • Program Management Standards
  • Communication Plan
  • Program Management Toolkit
  • Change Management Dashboard
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