Our consulting services
ensure your management team have the strategies,
information, skills and framework to confidently
arrive at investment decisions that drive your business
forward. Optimizing and supporting your operations
for today, positioning for growth into the future.
Our IT Strategic Planning service delivers a technology
strategy that aligns with your business strategy,
maximizing the return on your IT investment and
ensuring your infrastructure is optimized for
current operations whilst planning for future
requirements.
An IT strategy that is aligned
with your business strategy delivers an IT infrastructure
that
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Enables
your existing and emerging business processes |
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Increases
efficiencies |
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Reduces
costs |
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Creates
new delivery mechanisms |
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Supports
new products and revenue streams |
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Prepares for future capacity requirements |
We work with your leadership
team to understand your primary business goals
over the next 1 to 3 years. New products and markets,
headcount growth, new facilities all impact a
company’s IT requirements. We review the current
state of your technology versus where it needs
to be in order to achieve your business strategy.
A plan is then devised to move your company to
that new state.
The plan will include:
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Projects
and timelines |
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Budgets |
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Hardware,
software and licensing requirements |
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Potential
vendor reviews |
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Identify
- what is vulnerable and the degree of failure |
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Plan
- how to mitigate the disaster and how to
implement Disaster Recovery protocols |
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Document
- the plan and the steps to execute |
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Test
- the plans and collate the outcomes |
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Review
- the testing outcomes and revisit the planning
cycle to accommodate the outcomes |
Imagine during a
crisis discovering your business's Disaster Recovery Plan is not up to the task.
At its most vulnerable the business is not able
to engage its Disaster Recovery Plan for the very purpose it
was developed to manage.
A Disaster Recovery Plan is
proving its worth at a time of high stress for
a business, during a critical failure. A business
needs to trust that in the event of a disaster,
the recovery plan will protect the business allowing
it to contain the damage, manage the risk and
restore business as usual.
Our Disaster Recovery Planning
service follows a rigorous process developed
from experience. The service develops documentation
that clearly demonstrates the process and procedures
to be followed during the chaos and confusion
that occurs during an event. A tested and trusted
plan is in place that will move your business
into recovery in the shortest possible timeframe.
By engaging Orstead's Disaster
Recovery Planning service your business will be
able to
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Have the
capacity to generate revenues in the event
of a disaster |
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Meet legislative
and/or corporate governance requirements |
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Have a
plan to mitigate the impact of a disaster |
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Have the
ability to protect its reputation in the
event of a disaster |
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Have a
plan to recover from a disaster |
At Orstead we use the Prince2 Project Management
methodology and our staff are certified Prince2
Practitioners. Prince2 is an internationally recognized
project management method designed to provide
a framework covering the wide variety of disciplines
and activities required within a project.
Our service has been designed
to ensure that each project is delivered in full,
within budget, within timeframes and with minimum
impact on your business operations.
Within a formal framework our
Project Management service includes:
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A controlled
and organized project start, middle and end |
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A clearly defined project plan, decision points and delivery dates |
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Regular
reviews of project progress against plan |
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Regular
but brief management reports |
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Defined
communication structure |
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Management of risk and any deviations from plan |
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Agreement on required quality from outset and continuous monitoring against requirements |
The completion and on-going management of your Network documentation is recognized as a crucial part of an efficient and effective IT management strategy and its completion is very often an important governance task. But so often it is left incomplete, or is non-existent, either as a result of not truly appreciating it’s place in IT management and IT governance and/or because it places additional stress on your IT employees that are already stretched meeting the immediate, ‘in your face’ demands of your business.
We have designed this service in a way that allows us to deliver a unique and specialised skill set to your business in a flexible, cost effective way. This allows us to meet any requirement, ranging from completing missing sections of your IT documentation, reviewing or updating existing documentation and standards right through to providing you a complete documentation solution. Talk to one of our consultants so you can get a better idea of what we can offer and what solution will work for your business.
At Orstead we supply unbiased, independent advice on the best solution for your business. We act as your protection from the IT salesmen that have a particular product to push. We have no alliance with any product or technology. We work on your behalf to help you make a decision on what others are trying to sell you.
So often, even with your best intentions and a vendor operating with integrity, the review process can miss the mark because the two of you are operating from different perspectives. You will be speaking from the business, the vendor from the technical. As an independent third party we deliver squarely in the middle. We are experts in IT and business and we understand your business.
We know the questions that you need to ask as we have worked with so many different systems. We have no alliances. We proof the vendor promises and ensure the promises are realistic and deliverable in your particular business scenario (not just in a vendor’s test environment!). |
