We are a Technology Advisory and IT Services Provider

It’s hard to find an organisation whose success doesn’t depend on its IT landscape. A fit-for-purpose IT landscape is a strategic enabler and can make all the difference to the productivity of your teams, the quality of your software products, and the satisfaction of your customers. As a result, an effective IT landscape is often linked to the success of the business that it is aligned with. That effectiveness can be described in an IT maturity model. An IT maturity model is benchmark that we use to assess your IT landscape against, whether in relation to people, process, technology, or all three. We help you understand quantitatively where you are (an as-is state) and, based on your mission and goals, where you want to be (a to-be state).

Due to the dynamic enviroment Companies operate in, no business will ever reach the goal of “business and IT alignment”. Should this discourage you from pursuing business and IT alignment? Definately NOT! It is a worthy goal to pursue and a critical one for that matter. You might never reach alignment but we can help you take the neccessary steps to get ever closer. This requires a process.

Often, we ignore the fact that business and IT alignment is a process. This process does not have a starting point nor does it have an end. It is a series of “learn and do” cycles that incrementally get towards alignment.

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The old adage goes “you can’t manage what you can’t measure”. However, measurements are only as good as the story they tell.

Metrics help enterprises answer valuable questions, such as:

• Is IT performance better than last year?
• What is the enterprise getting from IT investments?
• How can the enterprise benchmark performance?
• What should the enterprise do in the absence of measureable metrics?
• Can it use risk management, loss expectancy, attack vectors or correlation?

Ideal IT metrics constitute a fact-based methodology for measuring progress against business goals, making good use of data to tell a story. This enables informed decision making that helps organisations achieve strategic goals, focusing IT resources around true drivers of business performance.

Relevant and impactful metrics will:

• focus employees around organisational priorities.
• communicate data in business terms not IT jargon.
• result in good decision-making.
• drive performance
• evolve as the organisation matures.

There are milliard of metrics that help us understand IT spend, performance and output. However, more is not better. as a matter of fact, more can be overwhelming and unproductive. Instead, a top-down approach to metric development ensures IT leaders focus only on the data that informs key business decisions.

Determining adequate security is largely synonymous with determining and managing risk. Where possible, an enterprise can implement controls that satisfy the security requirements of its critical business processes and assets. Where this is not possible, security risks to such processes and assets can be identified, mitigated, and managed at a level of residual risk that is acceptable to the organization.

Adequate security is defined as

The condition where the protection and sustainability strategies for an organization’s critical assets and business processes are commensurate with the organization’s tolerance for risk. [Allen 2005]