Strategy and Planning

Xcelligent’s Strategy and Planning services provide IT management prospective and counsel on maximizing the information technology impact on their organization.

Our services provide direct benefit to Senior Management by:

• Improving visibility across the organization
• Establishing a clear picture of current and future information technology needs
• Reviewing application integration opportunities for managing data exchange between disparate systems
• Providing a business-oriented evaluation for application functionality
• Evaluating  productivity and innovative opportunities
• Uncovering redundancies and cost savings
• Indentifying data and reporting maturity and requirements
• Developing short term and long term roadmaps

Planning assessments are divided into the following areas:

• Project Prioritization
• Are high priority projects getting the lion’s share of limited resources
• Do the IT priorities align with the organizational strategy
• Will the benefits of the projects be obtainable
• Strategy Assessment
• Is the IT Strategy in alignment with the organizational strategy?
• Is executive support secured?
• Are the resources available to implement the strategy?
• Will the technology proposed accomplish the goals specified?
• Project Health Check
• Are proper project management controls in place
• Are requirements documented
• Is the correct level of oversight involved in the project
• Software Assessment/Selection
• Do we understand the needs that are to be addressed?
• Have strengths and weakness of the candidate products been evaluated?
• Are the right members of the organization involved in the evaluation?
• Will the organization be able to support the new software?
• Risk Assessment
• Have the risks associated with the project been defined?
• Are mitigation strategies in place?
• Have the worst case scenarios been defined?
• Is a risk tracking strategy in place?