IT GOVERNANCE > IT Strategic Planning
Strategic planning for IT must occur as a fully integrated component of overall business planning for an organization. While this ensures the more obvious aspects of successful IT planning—aligning IT and business goals—it also institutionalizes a blended strategic approach better suited to adaptive, complex IT/business decision making. In other words, IT strategic planning performed as an adjunct or a “response” to business goals often fails to completely bond with key business drivers and form the kind of synergies that are crucial for pursuing and achieving those goals, as well as determining just how effective and efficient the organization has been in that pursuit.
This understanding has helped Ingenium refine a holistic approach to IT strategic planning that differentiates us from our competitors. While many activities are standard to the plan development process (needs assessment, asset assessment, gap analysis, etc.), Ingenium employs a planning team with expertise targeted to the different aspects of those activities: business analysts, technology analysts, financial experts, human resource professionals, and CIO-grade leadership. The accepted approach to IT strategic planning may seem simple, but within each assessment and analysis activity lies complexities that span an organization’s different departments and disciplines and their role in the enterprise’s overall mission.
IT GOVERNANCE > IT Lean
The principles of “Lean” thinking can help an organization deliver both internal and external customers IT products and services of considerable value with minimum outlays of vital resources. Ingenium delivers Lean practitioner expertise and Lean implementation modeling by bringing together both service provider and service customer to perform value-stream mapping—a bottom-up process with top-down direction. Value-stream maps provide a detailed, comprehensive representation of IT activities and their intended outcomes; they differ from standard process analysis by including material resources as well as activities. Value-stream maps help organizations identify waste—both materials and manhours—and remap activities to establish leaner operational flow.
IT GOVERNANCE > Balanced Scorecard
Ingenium uses Balanced Scorecard expertise as an essential part of its performance management framework. Balanced Scorecard provides an effective and successful tool for identifying and aligning strategic IT objectives, and assessing the success of tactical and strategic IT activities. By plotting strategic IT objectives across Balanced Scorecard perspectives (Financial, Customer, Internal Business Processes, and Learning & Growth), Ingenium analysts and planners can help your organization gain visibility into the effectiveness of plan execution. Balanced Scorecard has gained prominence in both the public and private sector as a performance monitoring tool.
IT GOVERNANCE > Business Process Re-engineering
In this fast paced, ever changing technology environment, change is inevitable. The volatility of technology weighed against the steadily moving target of your organization’s needs and requirements makes change a constant. We have achieved documented success in process re-engineering and change management.
The goal of any public or private sector enterprise is to be agile, focused and responsive. Your ability to meet these goals depends on the design and management of your enterprise infrastructure (e.g., the network that supports your business). We bring a lifecycle design and management approach to these tasks by providing Network Outsourcing, Enterprise Design and Security Assessments.
By combining a good design with a strict configuration management process, we make sure your network is always available. Just like the lights and phones in your office, you'll only notice your network when it isn't available. Because we understand the damage that hackers can cause, we provide secure solutions to network and data center design.
As part of any engagement, we understand your business and your bandwidth requirements before beginning any network design. With Ingenium, you'll be able to share information with peers, clients, and suppliers with confidence.
