BUSINESS STRATEGY, PROCESS OPTIMIZATION AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT

  • Definition of mid to long term business strategies based on market, product, operational and competitive analysis
  • Analysis of business processes, workflows, steps, ownership and recommendations for improvement based on industry best practices with a specific focus on horizontal integration
  • Business process measurement programs: establishing metrics, implementing measurement processes and assessment tools for continuous organization and business process improvement
  • Managing changes to business processes, organizational structures, standards and practices, culture and human behaviour needed to effect the execution of the IT-supported business strategy.

RESTRUCTURING, INTERIM MANAGEMENT AND START-UP OPERATIONS

  • Planning and implementing start-up operations
  • Planning and implementing corporate restructuring programs
  • Developing and implementing performance improvement, governance and risk management programs
  • Preparing companies for privatization
  • Supporting mergers and acquisitions

NOTE: If a need arises ITG teams have the competence to provide Interim Management services across all functions at the senior management level.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIES

  • IT strategy development
  • IT restructuring/alignment
  • IT management practices
  • Modernizing IT architectures

Improving tactical and operational processes within IT organizations that result in a sustained IT cost reduction while maintaining or improving levels of service such as: Standardizing and ; Integrating strategies to reduce IT complexity; Contract negotiation and management; Vendor management; Staffing level; Skill optimization, etc.

BUSINESS IT SOLUTIONS

  • Business needs analysis and solution definition for business-critical IT systems
  • Selecting and implementing enterprise and line of business solutions supporting business strategy of the company. The solutions may involve acquisition of specific business applications or new technologies or be delivered through improvements to and modernization of the existing systems.

CORPORATE AND IT GOVERNANCE

  • Establishing effective decision making structures and processes, as well as areas of management accountability and responsibilities for effective and efficient decision making in managing key areas of business
  • Optimizing a structure, skills and processes for cost-effective delivery of IT services to the corporation.
  • Defining key business metrics, strategies for achievement and measurement
  • Defining efficient and effective collaboration models between individual business units
  • Organizational design: defining and implementing organizational structures to support key business strategies
  • Project Management Office: establishing joint business-IT project supervisory structures, processes and metrics