Noteworthy

Dr. Wyatt Smith, MD

Served as Deputy CIO for the Military Health System and Executive Officer for the Navy Medical Information Management Command

Michael Duggan, PMP

Established IT support for the Postal Service’s call center network handlilng over 100 million calls a year and then did the same for the New York State Workers Compensation Board in response to the 9/11 crisis

IT Strategy

Programmatic and Actionable Advice for Optimizing IT

As experts in their field, our technology consultants serve as trusted advisors to their peers. We help them look beyond their day-to-day constraints in order to chart and pursue a long-term strategy for operational excellence. Consistent with our name – Agility + Expertise – we strive to strike a healthy balance between the pursuit of innovation and the need for management discipline. This rigorous, objective-based approach allows our clients to consistently exceed expectations.

We provide a number of proven services to help CIOs, CTOs and other IT leaders enhance and execute their organization’s IT strategy, including:

• Visioning – Consensus around a multi-year vision for what IT can achieve is what often differentiates IT leaders and allows them to outperform their peers. Effective visioning requires a clear understanding of what’s possible in a defined period of time even when the technology is yet to exist. It also requires the ability to effectively communicate this vision to all stakeholders to build the necessary support for this long-term commitment. Based on our first-hand experience, we provide additional guidance to CIOs, CTOs and other IT leaders seeking to create a long-term vision for their organization.
• Strategic Planning & Benchmarking – Using best practices and executive level expertise, we work to align our client’s IT organizations – staffing, architecture and infrastructure – with their overall IT and business strategy. With our hands-on experience and our thought leadership, we can serve as a source of new ideas and unbiased sounding board. We let our clients know what others are doing to push their organizations ahead and what level of commitment and investment is required to become ‘best-in-class’.
• IT Operations – We counsel clients on the adoption of standard methodologies and best practices that deliver additional accountability, transparency, efficiency and value. We also help them developed shared services organizations and evaluate alternative financial models. Another key focus is in assisting customers in evaluating and implementing the optimal organizational and software development processes for their organization’s unique requirements.
• Technology Consulting – The technology landscape is changing faster than ever. With your decisions today likely to have repercussions twenty years later, how do you know that you are making the right choices? Which architecture, standards, programming languages, vendors and organizational models should you adopt? We bring in a team of professionals to help evaluate your options and use scenario planning to justify your decision.

In order to simplify and speed adoption, we have bundled many of these capabilities into our IT Advisory Services offering. Learn more about our IT Advisory Services.