IT Strategy: Expertise
NYSTEC’s IT Strategy service is valuable for clients who want to fine-tune their IT program for improved effectiveness or for CIOs and agency leaders seeking an independent assessment of current capabilities and improvement opportunities. NYSTEC’s IT strategists have many years of real-world experience with all facets of IT strategy development:
IT Strategy “Health Check” — NYSTEC’s IT Strategy “Health Check” benchmarks your organization’s technology project and IT operation against industry standards and best practices. This allows you to quickly identify and target areas offering the greatest improvement opportunity and provides a yardstick against which improvement actions can be measured.
IT Organization Design — As new IT strategies are adopted to support the business needs of an organization, the IT skill sets and organizational structure must also evolve. We can help you identify the structural, staffing, and training strategies to transform your IT organization into a “best of breed” technology team.
Governance — In order for IT to play a strategic role in enabling the future direction of an organization, there must be significant coordinated communications and cooperation between decision makers and stakeholders across all levels. NYSTEC’s keen understanding of New York State government—the people, the processes, and the politics—provides nuanced counsel in areas such as establishing or improving IT governance programs and policies, building viable IT funding and budgeting strategies, structuring IT portfolio and project-management programs for success, and navigating New York State administrative processes for IT projects.
Technology Environment — Major infrastructure investments. System upgrades and modernization. Large-scale hardware or software deployment. All require careful planning, significant capital investment, and IT management oversight. NYSTEC has the depth of resources and planning expertise to help you develop a viable technology-implementation strategy. As an added value, clients can also take advantage of our acquisition and technical expertise as they move from strategy to implementation.
Strategy Roadmap — An effective IT strategy involves a variety of interrelated actions that span the IT organization and the business units it supports. NYSTEC has the expertise and tools to develop an IT Strategy Roadmap that provides a prioritized, phased action plan with clearly defined responsibilities, expected outcomes, and measures of success.