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IT Strategy defines a company’s IT strategy
over a three-to-four year period. INS analyzes the
business plans, product goals, and pending mergers
or acquisitions to determine the exact needs of the
company and which technologies and IT initiatives
best meet the business goals. |
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Business and Financial Analysis provides an evaluation
of business objectives and a complete financial analysis
to determine the costs, benefits, risks, ROI, and
payback for a variety of IT decisions. This analysis
may be employed across a number of business and technology
decisions (e.g., technology upgrades, outsourcing,
organizational restructuring, security, wireless,
storage, data center consolidation, etc.). |
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Solutions Planning provides a detailed architecture
definition for a specific initiative or solution,
budgeting for design and implementation, detailed
project planning for the design phase, a governance
plan to guide the project to completion, and a roadmap
for integration of the solution. |
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RFP Planning and Analysis provides pre- and post-contract
planning services in an RFI/RFP scenario. This may
include analysis of insourcing and outsourcing options,
development of RFI/RFP content, creation of selection
criteria, evaluation of providers, definition of contractual
service level agreements (SLA), and overall management
of the RFP lifecycle. |
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Establishes clear corporate goals and objectives. |
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Provides technology solutions that
are aligned with specific business needs. |
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Quantifies estimated costs, benefits,
ROI, and payback of IT investments. |
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Clarifies benefits and risks of short-
and long-term investments. |
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Develops a detailed action plan to
achieve the defined objectives. |
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Develops appropriate RFP content
to identify vendors with the best solution. |
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Ensures objective RFP selection criteria
and a rapid process. |
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Process Governance addresses executive
commitment for change and identifies the critical factors
that must be in place for a change to be successful.
The focus is on the assessment of business value, strategic
alignment, resources, and external partners. The service
includes an executive workshop that defines industry
best practices and standards (e.g., ITIL, ITSM, CoBIT,
eTOM, etc.) and emphasizes selection of an appropriate
standard(s) for an organization. |
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Assessment examines the current state
of a company’s IT organization in areas such as
service planning and delivery, problem management, change
and configuration management, continuity and availability
management, and financial management. |
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Design develops an architecture based
on gaps identified in the assessment phase. The focus
is on process architecture, detailed organization and
job design, staffing plan, metrics and SLA design, technology
requirements definition, and facilities plan. |
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Confirms the existence of critical
success factors for change. |
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Defines appropriate metrics to evaluate
and manage IT service performance. |
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Helps you gain operational efficiencies. |
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Ensures effective management of ongoing
costs and resources. |
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Provides structure to manage resources
more effectively. |
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Ensures effective management of service
levels required by the business. |
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Risk Assessment/Business Impact Analysis
ensures that your technology investments are appropriately
aligned with business risks. By properly measuring the
risks and quantifying the potential impact to the organization,
INIVID can help your company develop mitigation solutions
that are appropriate for the level of risk your organization
faces. |
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Recovery Planning provides your business
with a roadmap to follow for an effective and deliberate
recovery in the event of a disaster. NIVID adapts workable
disaster recovery strategies to the client’s industry,
organizational structure, and culture and helps integrate
disaster recovery capability into the business. |
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Audit ensures that your BC/DR program
supports your DR objectives. NIVID develops a set of program
objectives based upon BC/DR business goals and regulatory
requirements, then audits the BC/DR program—policy,
contracts, and plans—against this set of objectives
to validate effectiveness, highlight deficiencies, and
recommend corrective actions. |
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Identifies and quantifies the financial
risk to the business. |
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Provides a financial analysis of
risk mitigation options. |
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Maps your recovery objectives to
program requirements. |
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Validates industry and governmental
regulatory compliance. |
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Helps ensure that your BC/DR program
is airtight and that you are properly prepared to recover
from a disaster. |
