Today’s
ever-changing world of technology represents the same type of challenge
for most business leaders.
SOLUTIONS:
AdvanTech has the
experience and knowledge to help you find the right path for your business
by working with you to identify your goal, develop the plan, and execute
it within your parameters and mindful of your resources.
Our professionals
combine executive level business experience and up-to-date technology
understanding to provide effective solutions for your organization.
Information
Technology Planning
The key to deploying
and operating any business process or tool, including information
technology, is ensuring that the process or tool will effectively address
a business need. AdvanTech can assist in accomplishing this by assessing
the current gaps in meeting the need and identifying strategic
alternatives for closing those gaps. This is followed by developing a plan
for selecting and implementing the appropriate solutions).
· IT Strategic
Plan Development
· Needs Assessment
· System Requirements Definition
· Infrastructure Assessment and Technology Evaluation
· E-Business Planning
· Feasibility Review and Business Case Preparation
· Outsourcing Analysis
· Industry Benchmarking and Competitive Evaluation
Systems
Acquisition
Decisions made about
products and the vendors that support them have long term strategic
effects on your business. AdvanTech has skilled, knowledgeable people with
experience dealing with all aspects of acquiring information technology.
This is a specialized field, so in much the same way as you would utilize
your legal counsel or CPA in their areas of expertise, let the experts at
AdvanTech guide you through the acquisition process.
· Qualifications
Review
· RFP Development
· Proposal Evaluation
· Contract Development and Negotiation
Project
Management
Projects are often
unique events that can divert an organization’s management from its core
business. The management of projects requires vision and leadership,
combined with the ability to coordinate resources and monitor a myriad of
details. AdvanTech professionals bring years of project, business and
technology management to ensure your project produces the desired results
on time and within budget.
· Project Planning
and Scope Definition
· Resource Planning and Management
· Vendor Coordination and Management
· Cost Estimating and Tracking
· Budgeting and Forecasting
· Schedule Development and Monitoring
· Progress Reporting
· Change Control
· Dispute Resolution
· Stakeholder Communications
Implementation
Support
Projects are
made up of many tasks requiring a variety of resources, methodologies and
approaches. It is quite often the case that organizations either do not
have people with the particular skills needed for a given project
activity, or cannot afford to pull them from their daily responsibilities
to meet the needs of a project. AdvanTech is able to take on some or all
of the task related to a technology implementation, while providing the
necessary knowledge transfer to the client’s team to allow them to
assume operating responsibility upon completion of the implementation.
· Business Process
Review and Requirements Mapping
· System Configuration and Customization
· Test Planning, Execution and Evaluation
· Training Plans, Materials and Instruction
· System Documentation
· System Security Plans and Matrices
· Conversion Plans and Approaches
· Operations and Production Support Planning
· Contingency Planning
· Project Review and Monitoring
· Independent Verification and Validation
Retainer
Based CIO Services
Information Technology
has become a crucial strategic element for almost every business. However,
many small and mid-size, growing companies cannot yet afford a full-time,
executive level CIO position. Instead, they often utilize advice from
people in their organization who have strong technical skill in the bits
& bytes of technology, but lack understanding of overall business
processes. This does not provide a true strategic perspective to applying
technology to meet business needs.
AdvanTech can bring
this CIO-level knowledge to your organization on an as-needed basis, until
such time as you can justify an in-house CIO. You need this level of
expertise, just not full time. We can provide it on a retainer basis and
with your input, will design a program specific to the needs of your
business.