Strategy

Set direction to enhance IT credibility and drive business value.
Today's IT executives are charged with demonstrating the business value of IT while faced with the challenge of doing more with less. To address this mission, you need a well-articulated IT strategy supported by mature IT management processes to enable that strategy. SG Ideal Solutions Consulting Strategy and Architecture solutions help you align your IT direction with the business strategy, make critical decisions on architecture, organization and governance models, and determine the optimal sourcing strategy to enable that strategy. Our highly experienced multi-discipline teams apply critical thinking, proven methodologies, models and frameworks to address these challenges and ensure your strategic direction will achieve your top priorities. We leverage our proprietary research, vendor intelligence, and IT benchmarking databases to help you assess your current environment, define your future visions, and develop a set of initiatives and roadmap to make that vision real.

Applied Solutions
IT Strategy — enable the business strategy
Architecture — align technology direction and choices to enable the business
Sourcing Strategy — determine the best approach for acquiring resources
Portfolio Management — align investments with business objectives
Data Center Strategy — align service delivery with business needs
ERP Strategy — align application strategy to business needs
Organization and Governance — design delivery model and decision-making processes

IT Strategy
SG Ideal Solutions Consulting helps you clearly articulate the mission, vision, and business objectives for your IS organization to support current business strategy as well as enable new future business direction. The IT Strategy provides the initial statement of direction and a roadmap to achieve that direction. Fundamental to that process is assessing your current environment to understand the gaps that must be filled to enable the strategy in terms of skills and competencies, organization structure, IT management processes, technology architecture, governance and management processes.

Architecture
IT executives have increased awareness of the complexity of the technical environment and its impact on business performance. There is pressure to simplify these environments to reduce costs and risks as well as improve flexibility and agility to support changing business needs. A well-crafted enterprise architecture has proven impact on IT investments and helps to remove barriers to business growth. SG Ideal Solutions Consulting leverages industry and proprietary frameworks and models, vendor intelligence and best practices to help you define the architecture principles and direction and make key technology choices.

Sourcing Strategy
Having the right resources is critical. SG Ideal Solutions Consulting helps you assess your organization to determine the optimal sourcing strategy for delivering services at a competitive price. We help you understand which IT functions should be in sourced and those that are suitable for outsourcing and design the appropriate retained organization should outsourcing be feasible. Our goal is to help you make the best sourcing decision for your company by leveraging our proprietary research, proven frameworks and models, and IT benchmarking databases.

Portfolio Management
Challenged with doing more with less, IT executives must focus on prioritizing their investments to deliver maximum value from IT. Strong investment management processes must be designed and implemented to ensure local and enterprise decisions can be effectively made on a common set of criteria that supports both return on investment and strategic direction. These same principles and disciplined processes can be applied to application portfolios which consume a significant portion of today's IT budget. Managing IT investments in a more disciplined fashion helps you get the maximum value from your investments and potentially identify savings which can be redeployed to more strategic initiatives.

Data Center Strategy
Managing data center resources in today's environment is increasingly challenging. Business demands increased levels of service at prices that are competitive in the market and ensuring that regulatory compliance and risk are properly addressed. SG Ideal Solutions Consulting helps you assess your data center investments to ensure security and recovery times are aligned with business needs, regulations and business continuity plans, identify opportunities for improving processes, additional consolidation, or outsourcing, and define the initiatives and roadmaps to achieve the improvements. In addition, SG Ideal Solutions helps you determine not only the number of data centers but also location leveraging market intelligence on relevant price points and resource availability.

ERP Strategy
In today's world, companies need to operate in a more integrated fashion, supporting processes that cross geographic, business unit or functional boundaries. Current legacy environments, including ERP investments, need to be evaluated in light of changing business requirements. Multiple ERP instances need to be rationalized to reduce total costs while enabling more standardized processes. SG Ideal Solutions Consulting helps you develop the optimal application strategy for supporting both current business needs and future direction. We leverage our rigorous methodologies, industry knowledge, vendor intelligence, and proven frameworks and models to help you make key decisions on the optimal application platform to enable business growth.

Organization and Governance
Successful implementation of the IT strategy requires a strong governance framework so decisions can be made quickly and effectively. In addition, the appropriate organization delivery model must be in place, with the required skills and competencies, to deliver the services the customer wants in the most cost-effective manner. SG Ideal Solutions Consulting leverages proprietary frameworks and models to assess your current environment relative to your stated IT direction and identify the competencies, skills and organization structure model that will enable that direction. In addition, SG Ideal Solutions helps you in the design and implement the governance model, processes and structure, to manage key decisions within key IT domains and across the enterprise.