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Senior Advisors with over 50 years of combined experience in helping enterprises improve their technology as a business enabler, focusing on digital transformation, cloud adoption and data and analytics strategy; and as a support function, focusing on IT performance diagnostic, architecture modernization, outsourcing, and business/IT alignment.

IT Cost Diagnostic and Improvement

Our key principle in cost efficiency improvement work is collaboration. The collaborative approach that we follow typically involves:

  • Identify stakeholders (e.g., IT functional leads) and assemble the working team 

  • Collect cost, volumes and assets data and confirm all the IT functions in scope 

  • Directionally agree with IT leadership on the targets and communicate them to the broader IT team  

  • Conduct ideation workshop; review and prioritize the results of the ideation; Size the benefits and investments and assign the initiative leaders   

  • Develop the value capture roadmap and syndicate with the stakeholders  

  • Conduct IT planning workshop to agree on the project management approach, reporting process and guidelines (e.g., dashboards)  

  • Kick-off the improvement initiatives and provide ongoing expert support through targeted working sessions when necessary 

Technology Strategy and Digital Transformation

We help my clients assess Technology strategy and build transformation roadmap in the context of the overall business goals of the company. 

Key components of our approach are:

  • Understand business strategy and implication for IT 

  • Problem solve on how IT function can support the business aspirations 

  • Rethink current allocation of technology resources and identify ways to maximize IT productivity across key functions 

  • Revisit and restructure any ongoing large technology implementation projects

  • Develop execution plan and help oversee the implementation of the recommendations 

  • Sequence and prioritize technology enablement requests from the business, based on value creation potential 

Hybrid Cloud Adoption and Data Center Modernization

Diversity of business requirements, cybersecurity guidelines, regulation and data sources increasingly lead enterprises to adoption of the hybrid cloud infrastructure. This creates a new challenge to seamlessly running Public Cloud resources with cloud-compatible on prem capabilities.

We help our clients tackle this challenge by engaging with the infrastructure teams in:

  • Devising practical hybrid cloud strategy and roadmap to modernizing legacy

  • Choosing the right partners for public and private cloud solutions

  • Designing operating model for managing hybrid cloud and actively pursuing automation

  • Establishing ongoing cost controls (e.g., FinOps)