Review and Refine Business Goals
Analyze Current Information Processes and Infrastructure
Develop Strategic and Tactical Plans
Execute Projects and Follow-through
Putting together People, Process, Technology
A company's information systems and valuable records are critical resources. Companies that leverage information gain competitive advantages, bolster staff productivity, and run more effectively.
To solve your business problem Convergent Informatics couples top-down business planning with bottom-up systems thinking and design.
Information systems are continually changing
To keep your company's information strategy aligned to your business goals, you need a long-range plan that addresses your current and future systems requirements. That's why strategic information technology planning is critical to your company's long term success. Knowing where you want to go, results in tactical investments that moves you toward your goals.
1. Review and refine business goals: Understand where your company's information strategy is and where your company is going.
Our experience has shown that success comes by first understanding the business and then implementing only what a business needs. Collecting this information, and then performing the required strategic planning involves your top executives, business area managers, and technology experts.
Our teams meet with the key leadership and staff to understand the present and future business goals and requirements. These include any new product introductions, geographic expansions, new facilities, customer service initiatives, headcount increases, or other planned uses of information.
2. Analyze current information processes and infrastructure to check your company's current environment against its goals.
We map out your current business processes and information flows to allow better understanding of where the information bottlenecks are.
Convergent Informatics analyzes the information and needs gathered through the in-depth interviews. We summarize the current state of your information architecture, LAN, WAN, server, desktop, and software asset base. We outline your infrastructures's current strengths, weaknesses, gaps, and impacts. We also analyze any recently announced product upgrades.
3. Recommend systems
changes and set strategic technology directions to match your
company's goal to its people, processes and technology, both
in-sourced and outsourced.
Convergent Informatics follows a structured planning approach that defines business and information system goals, objectives and strategies for an organization. We prioritize technology improvements for the next one to three years to support the needs of your current business processes, as well as the infrastructure requirements for new business initiatives.
Technology recommendations and opportunities include personnel improvements as well. The total cost of ownership must include the skills upgrades for personnel as well and must be part of the total project budget. Where skills are unavailable inside a company, the planning and recommendations may include hiring the staff with the additional costs of recruitment and relocation or outsourcing the skill to another firm. Impacts usually extend well outside the immediate technology and business unit budgets.
4. Develop Strategic and
Tactical Plans. Plan projects and tasks that detail how your company
achieves its desired information changes
Convergent Informatics provides detailed implementation plans, schedules, and associated allocated costs for concrete and measurable actions. We translate strategy into effective execution.
Planning is what needs doing. Scheduling is when. Both are necessary to execute. Clear and complete plans are needed before working out timelines. Timeline constraints change plan scope. Convergent Informatics balances work, time, and money using experience garnered from small software development projects up through large enterprise systems.
5. Execute Projects and Follow-through. We can partner with your team or deliver a turn key effort.
To implement your company's plans, Convergent Informatics can:
- Work with a your current team and suppliers
- Connect you with Convergent Informatics's partners
- Manage the whole effort as your virtual IT department
Convergent is also there to provide appropriate planning and execution support when your business plans change rapidly.
Get the most from your people, processes and technologies
We enhances your knowledge of why you're doing, what you’re doing, when you’re doing it. Our process-centric method identifies where, when and how to invest in cost-saving or revenue-enhancing efforts.
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