Strategic Innovations, Inc.

Have you ever heard the saying, “if you fail to plan, then plan to fail”? Ever thought about it within the context of the technology your organization uses to operate? Have you ever found yourself working with different sets of data from different computer programs and wishing there was any easier way to put it all together? Ever found yourself searching for a computer file that you just know you saved – the question now is where?

Every day we all use technology, hopefully in a manner that is helping us to work more productively, efficiently, and effectively. If you do feel like things are running well, are you sure you are getting all the benefits that you can? And is the technology helping your organization to grow and learn? Do you ever worry about what might happen if you couldn't access your computer? Or some of your computers were destroyed? Or lost? What about the data you keep?

As these questions and myriad others suggest, technology should be a key component and valuable asset in the operation of our organizations. Could you benefit from technology consulting services? Consider some of these benefits:

• Build a mapped, enterprise architecture - Be able to document the current state of your technology infrastructure, what works, what doesn't, how applications interact with each other, how you access that data in your systems;
• Align IT with business value - Identify the connections between services provided by your organization and the supporting technology;
• Determine the needs and priorities for technology investments and implementations;
• Understand the long-term implications of today's technology decisions;
• Standardize, consolidate and virtualize - create a more efficient, less costly IT infrastructure;
• Maximize collaboration of your staff, partners, and customers;
• Improve security;
• Implement a business continuity plan to keep your services available.

After consideration of these benefits, if you think your organization is ready to develop a technology plan, we invite you to consider using Strategic Innovations if:

• Your have never created a technology plan for your organization before;
• You are juggling competing demands for technology implementations/purchases;
• You suspect your current technology is not being used as efficiently or effectively as it could;
• You suspect productivity could be improved with the right technology, but you are not sure what that may be;
• You do not feel there is anyone in the organization with a sufficient understanding of technology and business to create the plan;
• No one has the time to commit to managing the technology planning process.

The Technology Wheel

Once you have a technology plan developed, you may find the need for many other pieces to be assembled in order to implement the plan. Often we think of the hardware and software purchases that may be needed and ensuring they meet the needs of the plan, especially in terms of user requirements or interoperability with other applications. There are likely to be needs related to the development of new policies and procedures and even whole new business processes. Strategic Innovations is prepared to help you with these pieces as well as you move to action in implementing your plan.