IT Consulting & Strategy

Strategic IT Consulting Services

As one of the leading information technology consulting firms, ComuTech delivers tailored IT consultancy services and business IT support to organizations of any size. We offer a full range of custom IT consultancy services covering a variety of business technology strategies. Our team provides strategic guidance on a variety of topics, including cloud strategy, IT budget planning, risk management, IT assessment, strategic planning, and compliance reviews.

IT Assessment

Our information technology assessments help you gain a better understanding of your IT environment to support your key business goals and objectives.

Key Features:
  • Identifies your IT strengths and potential areas to grow and improve
  • Identifies IT risks that may not have been known and mitigation strategies to minimize or eliminate these risks
  • Assists in providing a pathway forward for technology that is aligned with your business goals and objectives
  • Highlights opportunities for cost optimization

Information Technology Assessment

Designed to provide an in-depth overview of your current infrastructure and technology, our Information Technology Assessment evaluates the technology solutions you have in place and how they support your business functions and objectives.

Key Areas:
  • Data Storage –SAN, permissions, performance, accessibility, availability
  • Server Infrastructure –Warranty/support, performance, capability planning, virtualization, and operating systems
  • Network Infrastructure –Power, environment controls, UPS, and warranty/support
  • Networking Infrastructure/Carrier Services –ISP, network switching, wireless, cabling and connectivity, LAN/WAN, and warranty/support
  • Cloud Services –Compliance, availability, accessibility, and service delivery model
  • Business Services/Applications –Collaboration and messaging, financial management, CRM, Active Directory/directory services, business intelligence, and file/print sharing
  • IT Disaster Recover/Business Continuity –Recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO), disaster recovery (DR) planning/readiness, business and impact analysis, and backups
  • Network Security –RTO Password policies, anti-virus, anti-spam, firewall, content filtering, and physical security
  • Telephony –All aspects of your telephony solution
  • Risk –Risk identification and risk analysis

Financial IT Assessments

Our Financial IT Assessments evaluate your current IT expenses and the areas to which funds are allocated. We assess your IT expenditure in relation to company size, industry sector, revenue generation, and support, and then compare these results to industry benchmarks and IT financial models. After our analysis is complete, we provide a comprehensive report outlining your current IT financial state, alignment to best practices and industry benchmarks, and potential areas to optimize your IT budget.

Key Areas:
  • Cloud management
  • Service delivery and resourcing
  • Information security
  • Vendor management
  • Infrastructure
  • Software and applications
  • Supporting services

Business-Aligned Information Technology Assessment

Our Business-Aligned Information Technology Assessment is designed to evaluate the objectives and operational requirements of your organization as well as the technology infrastructure, applications, and support resources that serve your employees, clients, and partners. We look at how your organization leverages technology, how it integrates with your business processes, and how it is managed and governed. Once we gain a deep understanding of your objectives and challenges, we develop a plan to improve business outcomes by aligning your business with current and emerging technologies.

Security Assessments

As your business relies more heavily on technology, the inherent risks increase as well. A single data breach or ransomware attack can cause huge financial, legal and reputational damage. To help ensure your business is protected against the latest threats, we offer a comprehensive cybersecurity assessment identifying your level of risk and defining a mitigation approach to minimize and manage your threats and vulnerabilities.

IT Organizational Assessments

Our IT Organizational Assessment analyzes how IT services are delivered throughout your organization. This includes the assessment of the current IT organizational structure, available resources, required functions, and existing roles that help meet delivery needs. This assessment incorporates industry best practices and business requirements to identify gaps in your delivery model, including such areas as training and development, succession planning, and workforce planning.

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IT Strategy and Planning

We think of strategic IT as a core competitive strength, helping you to invest in the right technologies to prepare your company today for tomorrow’s challenges. The infrastructure and technology decisions made today can have a dramatic effect on the future of your organization from a financial, performance, and competitive standpoint. Our approach is simple yet effective. We work with your organization and key stakeholders to ensure infrastructure and technology decisions are assessed based on your specific needs. Using proven methodologies and frameworks, our IT strategy consulting services help your business make the right short-, mid-, and long-term infrastructure and technology decisions. Our strategic IT services help you develop an IT plan to consolidate, optimize, expand, migrate, or implement to help you achieve your goals.

Key Areas:
  • IT Roadmap
  • IT Budgeting and Financial Cost Modeling
  • Policy Writing
  • IT Governance and Service Management Framework Development and Implementation
  • IT Due Diligence Analysis
  • Organizational Change Management
  • IT Organizational Design

Virtual CIO

Our virtual CIO services provide your organization with access to experienced, high-level professionals who provide short- or long-term support for IT strategy, operations, and leadership. If your business needs strategic direction but you don’t have the budget for a full-time CIO, a virtual CIO is an excellent choice to help you set your priorities and manage your day-to-day technology operations. Consistently working with your business to deliver expert IT strategy consulting, virtual CIOs:

  • Take a seat at your table
  • Analyze your organization’s situation
  • Take control and accountability for driving IT strategy
  • Recommend specific ways technology can make your business more competitive in the marketplace

Governance, Risk & Compliance

One thing that remains constant these days is change. Technology changes. Regulations change. Marketplaces and economies change. Best practices change. If you want your organization to achieve its strategic objectives, manage uncertainty, and meet the needs of stakeholders, you need a systematic way to manage governance, risk, and compliance. ComuTech works with organizations in the service management, IT governance, and IT compliance arenas, providing a wide range of services to assess, plan, implement, and manage programs and frameworks. We work closely with all business stakeholders to assist with the linkage between IT and business strategy to ensure IT decisions are based on business requirements.

Key Areas:
  • Board advisory services
  • Governance design services
  • Design and testing of internal controls
  • Enterprise risk management assessments
  • IT risk assessments
  • Security audits
  • Compliance audits
  • Regulatory compliance advisory services
  • Strategic performance reviews

IT Governance

IT Governance provides a structure for aligning IT strategy with business strategy. A formal IT framework allows organizations to produce measurable results toward achieving their strategies and goals while considering stakeholder needs. Implementing a formal IT Governance framework is integral to a part of overall corporate governance, which assists in providing:

  • Alignment between IT strategy with the business strategy
  • Cascading strategy and goals down into the organization
  • IT organizational structures that facilitate the implementation of strategy and goals
  • An IT control framework that needs to be adopted and implemented
  • Measurement of IT’s performance

IT Risk

The key to truly leveraging technology is understanding and managing the risks associated with implementing and managing these technologies. All organizations have IT risk, though most lack a structured mechanism and process to identify, evaluate, prioritize, track, and mitigate the risks. Our strategic consultants can help develop a formalized IT Risk Management program to assist in not only increasing the visibility to risk but also providing a charter of the process to manage the application of resources. Our IT risk management services can effectively minimize, monitor, and control the realization of these risks. An IT Risk Management program will:

  • Establish a comprehensive IT Risk Management program that assists in exposing risks
  • Develop consensus on organizational IT risk appetite
  • Establish a framework and metrics for acceptable IT risk tolerance
  • Create a strategy for managing and mitigating IT risks to meet the risk appetite
  • Quantify IT risk exposure in meaningful financial terms
  • Align business and IT risk management objectives
  • Enable the business to make informed investments when managing risk

IT Compliance

Many organizations are bound by regulatory compliance or standards. ComuTech can assist in managing your organization’s IT controls that assist in achieving compliance. Organizations need assistance to navigate the different compliance requirements, as there is often overlap, dependency, or competing requirements. We can help you reach IT compliance with:

  • Alignment between IT strategy with the business strategy
  • Cascading strategy and goals down into the organization
  • IT organizational structures that facilitate the implementation of strategy and goals
  • An IT control framework that needs to be adopted and implemented
  • Measurement of IT’s performance