In
today's economic climate, CEOs and business managers are
looking to IT Executives for business technology guidance,
and to become one-part business manager, one-part technologist
and two-parts Strategist. Today's IT Executives must be
skilled at all facets of business, including developing
a vision, deploying a strategy and effectively marketing
to both Internal and External Clients.
Having developed and executed on thousands of Infrastructure
challenges, we would like to share with you the top 5 FAQ’s
from C-level executives. If you have a specific question
you'd like to ask one of our strategists or product deployment
managers, please contact us directly by phone at 800-634-1806
or email us.
Q: Are my IT Initiatives aligned with
my business goals?
A: The challenge of aligning business and technology is
how StrategIT initiates every engagement. Stage I of StrategIT’s
IQI™ Methodology addresses the issues of mapping Technology
Solutions to a Business initiative. StrategIT’s approach
is holistic and covers the assessment of the following business
components:
A: Most IT executives are challenged to provide a manageable
yet effective IT solution to enhance their technology and
hence enable their business to become more efficient. The
pre-Y2K years promoted the addition of a new solution for
every technology component that the business needed. The
potential functions, features and benefits of these solutions
is peaking at 20% of utilization in well ran IT organizations.
As a result, most IT Data Centers are cluttered with intelligent
goods that add no business intelligence. StrategIT specializes
in technology consolidation to enable your business intelligence.
Whether it’s Storage and Systems consolidation, Network
Infrastructure refresh or Creations of effective IT policies
and procedures, our staff can help you devise a roadmap
to achieve your final objective of doing more in a manageable
and well organized Infrastructure.
Q: How do I strengthen my project prioritization
and management?
A: Your processes and procedures are the most important
tools in guiding your program, project and staff management.
StrategIT offers you the experts through its Strategic IT
Planning practice to help you accomplish the following:
• Scope Management
• Communication Management
• Quality Management
• Resource Management
• Client / Vendor Coordination
• Material Acquisition Management
• Change Control Management
Q: Our board of Directors has tasked IT
with a BC/DR plan.
Can you help?
A: Our Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery offering
is well defined and follows a flexible methodology that
fits all small, mid-size and large enterprises. StrategIT’s
approach to your IT BC/DR efforts follows these guidelines:
• Project Initiation
• Risk Evaluation
• IT Business Impact Assessment
• IT Business Continuity Strategy
• Emergency Response Operations as it relates to IT
• IT BC/DR Plan Development
• Awareness and Training
• Maintaining and Testing the Plan
• Public Relations and Crisis Coordination as it relates
to IT
• Cooperation with Public Authorities as it relates
to IT
Q: How do I tighten my Infrastructure
Security and privacy safeguards?
A: Unfortunately, even the most diligently administered
IT Networks and Systems may become vulnerable to attack
from forces looking to gain access to valuable resources.
Even disclosure of relatively benign classified information
by outsiders can have a devastating impact on many businesses,
not to mention the damage a disgruntled worker could do.
All IT Systems are vulnerable in some way, but most can
be hardened to withstand attacks when the vulnerabilities
have been recognized. StrategIT’s IT Security and
Defense team can help you prepare for the inevitability
of an incident. Our approach is to recognize, respond, recover
and optionally, retaliate when a security breach occurs.
We use methodologies consistent with those from CERT (Computer
Emergency Response Team) and NIPC (National Infrastructure
Protection Center). StrategIT can help you:
• Identify internal and external IT vulnerabilities
and threats
• Develop a security architecture for protecting the
Organization
• Develop Security and Acceptable Use Guidelines for
your Organization
• Develop a plan to Harden and Defend IT Systems from
attacks
• Implement an attack recognition mechanism within
IT
• Test the Defended Systems and Networks to assure
compliance
• Develop a response plan to counter the attack
• Specify how to recover from successful attacks
