Strategic IT Planning Sydney

Strategic IT Planning

Strategic IT Planning Services = Business Synergy = “the working together of two or more things, people, or organisations, especially when the result is greater than the sum of their individual effects or capabilities”.

At Huon, we take the time to understand your business in order to design, construct and implement systems to improve business performance on an appropriate budget. We work as a strategic partner, looking holistically at business needs and implementing a scaleable, managed IT solution that offers a level of flexibility most IT providers find hard to achieve.

We routinely initiate our relationship with our clients through an IT Health Check which leads to the formulation of an IT Strategic Plan for your business. Huon IT’s strategic planning consultants essentially provide businesses with the professional resources and facilities to review current business objectives and develop concise, forward-thinking strategies. The key purpose of this service is to co-operatively develop a business plan to provide you with effective and sustainable goals, whilst reducing the overall total cost of ownership and delivering tangible returns on investment over infrastructure expenditure.

A strategic plan typically identifies:

• A tactical technology direction for your company to follow
• Planned stages of growth
• Project recommendations for the short, medium and long term
• Estimated costs for these projects
• Highlights the requirements for streamlining and enhancement of technology
• Quality Control

In summary, the strategic plan will assess technology strategies and directions and formulate solutions based on your business priorities and budget.

Taking the time to understand your business

Huon’s years of success stem from one single philosophy - to partner our clients and ensure a mindset that treats your business as our own. It therefore goes without saying that we focus on understanding how your business runs. In learning about your company, we develop an understanding of what elements of IT have the potential to offer significant and measurable advantages. We think beyond the basic issues to ensure that holistic advice is delivered which is relevant to your business needs today and looks at the strategies of tomorrow.

Getting the right advice for your business

Advice from Huon is tailored to your business needs. Our success demonstrates the careful balance of requirements for:

•  Cost-effectiveness
•  Appropriate Return on Investment
•  Strategic potential to improve operations
•  Growth and expansion
•  Integration of existing systems

Taking the mystery out of IT

Huon’s consultants focus on business benefits and plain English computer technology discussion. Technology is a multifaceted and sophisticated arena. It is paramount that you clearly understand your technology options. If you are not getting straightforward, non-jargon advice or if you cannot understand the advice you are given, it is time to talk to us. Contact Huon IT.

The IT Budget

In conjunction with your Strategic IT Plan, on an annual basis we re-visit and re-evaluate our clients’ IT systems to ensure they remain in line with their business goals. It is via this practice that we are able to provide an accurate, collaborative annual IT review and budgeting process. This course of action has, for many of our clients, simplified their end-of-financial-year budgeting to the point where days of effort potentially reduce to a matter of hours.

Investing in Technology for your business

The right choice of technology today can drive your business to high levels of efficiency and client satisfaction whilst potentially lowering operating costs overall. It is usual for larger technology implementations to be financed through an operating lease. This is highly efficient as the cost of the system in simple terms is amortised over the lifespan of the equipment.

It is important to create benchmark measurements that can evaluate pre- and post-implementation to determine gains and bring those gains to the actual $ return to your business. We have various methodologies for measuring ROI. Contact your Huon consultant for further information.