Our technology strategy consultants serve as long-term IT advisors, using the IT strategy roadmap to help organizations successfully plan, build, deploy, operate, and optimize technology solutions that provide a competitive advantage.

Overall, we help plan for IT governance and compliance by establishing well-defined procedures and clear standards for acquiring, integrating, and maintaining IT systems over time. Specifically, our services help promote the following:

• Competitive advantage through technology innovation—deliver the right services at the right time, strengthening IT as a strategically focused, business-aligned organization.
  • Map IT applications, infrastructure, and operations into a consistent set of services that support business goals.
  • Help eliminate IT redundancies, disconnected systems, service delays, and inefficient processes for faster response times.
  • Seize opportunities to take the competitive lead by applying technology in innovative ways.
• IT service excellence—realize the value of your current IT investment by bringing past, present, and future IT services and initiatives in line with your business goals.
  • Help improve IT operational efficiency to lower the total cost of ownership.
  • Operate from a consistent, predictable, and executable IT service architecture and delivery plan.
  • Help reduce redundancy and streamline IT processes and service delivery across regions and international boundaries.
  • Help ensure the success and reduce the risk of future IT upgrades and systems.
• Long-term, strategic relationships—depend on the long-term commitment of AMERICAN SYSTEMS experts to understand your business and adapt technologies to meet each challenge.
  • Recommend and deliver services as an integral part of your business strategy.
  • Centralize coordination of your projects and services.
  • Offer a consistent, cohesive approach to help continually optimize technologies.

The typical technology and IT strategy engagement begins with a discovery phase to develop the vision, plan, and discipline for fully integrating people, processes, and technologies. Over a period of four to eight weeks, senior strategy consultants and architects work on site with business and IT managers across the company to do the following:

• Gain a rapid understanding of your business goals, concerns, and challenges.
• Map IT applications, infrastructure, and operations to IT services.
• Identify the IT services that best support each business goal, evaluate IT's effectiveness at supporting each goal, and develop plans for improvement.
• Create an IT strategy roadmap that provides the strategic goals, improvement areas, IT services architecture, and applicable technologies to adapt and deliver coordinated, business-aligned IT services across the enterprise organization.
• Create an IT program plan that lists, describes, and sets priorities for the projects required to realign technologies to business goals according to the IT strategy roadmap.
• Schedule, budget, and initiate the projects identified in the IT program plan, weighing cost against risk and value.
• Oversee implementation of the IT program plan on an ongoing basis.
• Provide ongoing discovery, as required, to keep IT plans aligned with evolving business and market conditions.
• Establish conditions of satisfaction (evaluation criteria) and methods for quantifying the benefits of each project undertaken.
• Provide monthly benefits assurance reports on the technical and financial success of completed projects.

Each of our technology strategy consultants is a senior-level consultant with years of experience mapping IT services to business goals for large organizations.

Our technology strategy consultants specialize in the following:

• Understanding business issues, processes, and organizations.
• Providing broad-based strategic, technical, and program management skills across all Microsoft products and technologies.
• Managing large-scale strategic projects by using a risk management perspective and exceptional interpersonal skills.
• Facilitating a broad range of workshops and meetings and conducting presentations for all levels of the organization.
• Transferring technical knowledge to your company, while continuing to serve as a long-term trusted advisor to your IT organization