Business these days, are highly volatile and, in some cases, transformational. Three consistent requirements, regardless of industry type are to 1. Save money 2. Increase productivity 3. Grow our business
Right now, of these three, most businesses are predominantly focused on saving money. However the core is the question: “How to optimize IT budget and help sustain Growth?”
We focus on helping you achieve all three of these goals, but in particular how we can help you save money IT for most businesses is a cost centre, some are efficient cost centres, some are business centres, and some are strategic assets. Through our understanding of technology and orientation towards growth we adopt best practices approach that optimize IT processes to help reduce cost and/or improve service levels and agility:
Basic – IT is a cost centre with uncoordinated and manual processes. IT operations are inefficient and costly, and service levels and agility are low to average.
Standardized – IT is essentially a more efficient cost centre, with lower IT costs than Basic organizations but with similar service levels and agility. Organizations at this level typically use some of the easier-to-implement best practices.
Rationalized – IT has become a business enabler. IT labour costs are significantly lower, and service levels and agility are improved compared with Basic and Standardized organizations. At this level, organizations use many IT best practices and automate and standardize wherever possible.
Dynamic – IT has become a strategic asset for the business and is focused on enabling the business with optimal service levels and agility rather than cost reductions. Organizations at this level may accept best practices that increase costs to optimize service levels and agility.
The end goal is to move right in the models, and turn the IT department into a cost-efficient yet strategic, agile asset in the company.
First we identify where your organization sits within the Optimization levels and businesses strategic areas of focus. It’s a simple process that can be completed with a minimal time and resource commitment without any cost.
Our Optimization models focus on core infrastructure, business productivity infrastructure, application platform and business objectives, each with specific capabilities. The models provide insight into how strategic an IT department is within an organization and identify a pragmatic approach to investing in IT capabilities.
Our models are based around industry best practices. We have a strong partner ecosystem that extends our ability to harvest the best ideas, the best implementations, and the best adoptions to really understand what an optimized IT organization looks like.
The process of analyzing business’s level of Optimization enables us to share these observations with them, and partner them to determine both the current level of optimization is and the desired level as well, and then together build a plan on how to get there.
The dynamic and evolving business scenario often pose a huge challenge for growing organizations in the SME arena. Without efficient planning often they lead to stagnancy and even downfall. Through our consulting services and industry best practices approach we help business leverage technology for resource planning and management using efficient business management applications.
Modern day businesses redefine ‘company’ to go beyond the ‘stake holders and employees’ definition and extend it to include partners, customers and suppliers. Solutions for these ‘extended enterprises’ must address the information needs of all their constituents and support the web of relationships between them.
Often companies invest into creating IT systems & infrastructure as and when the need arises, we call it a reactive approach. These systems are critical to the business and often they aren’t linked. Think of all the things that must happen when a customer places an order. How often is this order information entered into various systems in different departments? The more times it is re-typed or transformed, the more opportunities there are for error.
An intricate, interconnected network of information, extended enterprises can only be built on top of strong IT foundations. To ensure success, they require solutions that are robust, scalable and address the needs of finance, sales & marketing, customer relationships, supply-chain, retail, service, human resource, e-Commerce, partner collaborations and business analytics. And to tie these all together, meticulous planning and error free execution is required.
With thorough planning and by the virtue of our experience & expertise, IT systems can be transformed from a cost centre to a strategic asset. Every department is better equipped to carry out key tasks; and with visibility across all processes you can obtain clear and timely information on which to base critical business decisions.
A well-implemented and appropriate system (Enterprise Resource Planning System) can create significant efficiencies across your business, resulting in timely business information, better customer relationships, a more cost-effective supply chain, improved internal process and, ultimately, increased profitability.
IT should be seen as a strategic contributing asset for both operational and competitive excellence. Our IT Strategy Team helps top management adopt that mindset and achieve greater business value from IT. We understand IT is not merely a cost centre but a critical strategic asset to the business, focused on improving business value and performance.
Business Insight
Businesses succeed or fail on the quality of decision making. It’s always been so. Executives, managers and staff at all levels use known information and data to steer their company and all facets of its operations. In some cases, decision makers rely on assumptions and anecdotal experience when planning their next steps. This is where an insight in their business is crucial for fact based decision making.
Smart Decisions based on accurate facts takes business towards success and growth. However having real time and accurate information available for decision making is the key. With constantly increasing information (read data) enterprises most often struggle to achieve filtered information presenting accurate facts & figures.
Faced with these increasing levels of information filtering throughout the enterprise, critical business data can be leveraged to empower operations. Business intelligence enables companies to provide knowledge workers with the data they need to make more informed business decisions. Over time, these decisions can have a dramatic bottom-line impact on the business.
By converting this raw data into real-time information about one’s own business, Decision making can be thoroughly based on the facts and true figures. Hence result would be increased visibility across the whole organization by pulling off reports and analyzing any stage of the business.
Business Intelligence (BI) gives the ability to gain insight into business or organization by understanding company’s information assets. These assets can include customer databases, supply chain information, personnel data, manufacturing, and sales and marketing activity as well as any other source of information critical to your operation.
With the help of specific BI tools and experience we can help businesses to integrate these disparate data sources into a single coherent framework for real-time reporting and detailed analysis by anyone in extended enterprise – customers, partners, employees, managers, and executives.
Focusing on Core Competence Area for maximum efficiencies
Businesses often face the daunting task to harbor manpower with skills other than the core functions of business to manage infrastructure required to run business efficiently. Through our Professional Technology Services we help business focus on their core functions and adopt our professional services for seamless operations and availability of IT infrastructure and tools.
As the marketplace is becoming competitive, there is an increased need of agility for businesses both in terms of systems & workforce. Our professional services help businesses focus on their core functions and leverage on our expertise to manage your enterprise information systems & technology infrastructure. We strongly believe in the simple concept of “focusing on one’s own competence area leads to higher efficiencies” works well.
Our Professional services give our clients the flexibility to either outsource parts of their tasks to be independently executed by us, or have us become a part of their team for short or long term. Professional services leverage the skill level, experience and quality of our resources to provide potentially diverse set of services to clients. These competencies could be in areas of technology, domain knowledge or project management.
Our services are designed to provide the following benefits to businesses: • Allows companies focus on its core functions. • Reduced cost of operations • Guaranteed accessibility of systems & technical resources • Better Uptime/availability of IT Infrastructure. • Access to cross technology platform experts (human resource) without the worry to retain them • Application and tools for immediate deployment • Operational efficiencies of your IT operations
Our services are designed to provide the following benefits to businesses: