IT: Companies expect to add value with automation, analytics and consumerism.
Large scale innovation, fuelled by trends such as the Internet of Things, cognitive computing, business model transformation, consumerisation of IT, mobile, cyber security and analytics, continues to drive change in the tech industies.
IT transformation
Incumbent companies must undergo IT transformation to stay relevant and successful.
Data security
From inadvertent leaks and accidental breaches to malicious theft, all organisations are exposed to severe risk of data breach.
Enterprise solution
IT solutions designed to meet business requirements including automation, data storage, analytics and security.
IT TRANSFORMATION
Organisations allocate considerable budget for planning and implementing IT strategies every year. Yet every few years, their IT strategies seem insufficient, underestimated, overly expensive and complex. It does not start with aligning IT goals with the strategy and goals of the company, and cross functional involvement.
As is business assessment
Understand business long term plans before identifying the automation and system needs for the organisation.
Approach
- Meeting with the management to understand objective of the study and related expectations/ concerns.
- Meet key internal stakeholders of various functions to understand on business activities, role of automation, and existing IT tools available
Methodology
- Primary and Secondary research, Val partners internal resources, interview with key internal stakeholders
Deliverables
As is business assessment presentation
Timeline
1 month
Best industry practises & high level IT design
Knowing the industry best practices will enable envisioning the optimal IT architecture.
Approach
- Carry out best industry practises w.r.t local and international players in the given space w.r.t automation.
- Design IT transformation scope: gaps, solution to bridge gaps, high level system architecture and pros/ cons of its adoption.
- Share with management IT transformation plan for their understanding and feedback.
- Align on various IT system requirement and phases w.r.t deployment.
Methodology
Secondary research, Val partners tools and resources, meeting with key internal stakeholders
Deliverables
High level solution architecture
Timeline
2 months
Vendor selection
Know your business needs before you venture out to select an IT vendor, as the most effective suppliers are those who offer products or services that match – or exceed – the needs of your business.
Approach
- Shortlist given vendors for solution deployment
- Evaluate vendors on pre-determined parameters to rank them for solution delivery
- Share vendor evaluation with the management, to enable them to decide on the vendor
Methodology
Val Partners vendor assessment tools, interview with key vendors, meeting with key management stakeholders
Deliverables
Vendor evaluation and selection
Timeline
To be determined as per scope
Solution customisation
Every business needs certain amount of necessary customisation to be able to serve the specific use case for the business.
Approach
- Identifying the gaps that need to be bridged to fulfil the business requirement
- meeting with key stakeholders and management direction
Methodology
Val Partners vendor assessment tools, interview with key vendors, meeting with key management stakeholders
Deliverables
Customising the system as per requirement
Timeline
To be determined as per scope
Solution development
Track system delivery inline with the business needs, on-time and handle change management to ensure adoption.
Approach
- Do program management for solution deployment
- Assist in UAT and go live enablement
- Carry out staff training and adoption drive and post go live issue resolution support
Methodology
Val partner internal project management tools & standard dashboards
Deliverables
IT solutions deployed and adopted
Timeline
To be determined as per scope
Data security
In this digital world, businesses mostly rely on data storage and transactions to perform certain operations. At the same time, it also has potential security risks that could devastate a company.
As is data assessment
Data breaches can hurt businesses and consumers in a variety of ways. They are a costly affair that can damage brand reputations and take significant time to repair.
Approach
- Meet the management to understand objective of the study as well as key expectations/ concerns.
- Interview with key IT stakeholders to understand IT ecosystem, DBMS, data integrity, security, DR and any known vulnerabilities
- Carry out system audit to assess data vulnerabilities and status
- Align with IT management on current data ecosystem and security issues/ vulnerabilities
Methodology
- Val partners internal tools and resources
- Interview with key internal stakeholders
Deliverables
As is data assessment report
Timeline
TBD
Data security solution finalisation
Security solution helps to ensure only authenticated users and devices access your system network and keep the data encrypted from unwanted accesses.
Approach
- Basis the data securities assessment, evaluate various data security options, pros/cons, costing etc
- Finalise an optimal solution for data security and share with IT management
- Discuss with IT management on the solution and feedback for further optimisation.
Methodology
- Val partners internal tools and resources
- Meeting with functional employees and key management stakeholders
Deliverables
Data security solution
Timeline
To be determined
ENTERPRISE SOLUTION
Design the IT processes, system requirements and architecture to allow for solution selection, vendor selection and related customisation required to make the system apt for your organisation to deliver improved service levels, and cutting down on operating costs thereby generating revenue growth.
As-is business process assessment
In-depth analysis of key business activities to identify cross functional participation and manual/ automation needs.
Approach
- Meeting with the management to understand objective of the study and related expectations/ concerns.
- For the given enterprise solution, meet key stakeholder of the function to understand documented/ practised business activities, SLA, and team role in the delivery, performance dashboard etc.
Methodology
Primary and Secondary research, Val partners internal resources, interview with key internal stakeholders
Deliverables
As is business process document
Timeline
1 -2 months
Solution requirement document
Detailed system requirement document w.r.t process flow, R & R, IT architecture and data flow etc.
Approach
- For the given solution, start documenting business process slow including activities, owner, timelines, SLA.
- For the given process, identify need for automation/ interaction with any of the existing IT systems.
- Basis the business process, define the new system BRD including processes, control, SLA, reporting, user accesses, IT architecture and data flow and reports.
- Share the BRD with key management stakeholders for review and management
Methodology
Val partners tools and resources, meeting with key internal stakeholders
Deliverables
Solution BRD
Timeline
1-3 months
Solution development
Track and manage solution delivery inline with the business needs, on-time and handle change management to ensure adoption
Approach
- Do program management for solution deployment
- Assist in UAT and go live enablement
- Carry out staff training and adoption drive and post go live issue resolution support
Methodology
Val partners tools and resources, meeting with key internal stakeholders
Deliverables
Solution deployed and adopted
Timeline
TBD
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