North Wind Business Solutions LLC
Navigating through transformational change with the innovative and competitive use of technology....
Providing a Complete Suite of Business and IT Solutions
IT Strategy and Governance
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Defining and implementing the policies and repeatable processes that optimize the business value realized from your IT investments
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Are you getting the expected value out of your IT investments? Do you have a written two year IT Strategic Plan that is aligned to your Strategic Business Plan? Does your IT Strategy enable your Digital Strategy, providing you with a 360 degree view of your interactions with customers, employees, and supply chain partners? How do you decide which IT projects to approve and technology assets to purchase? Do you have a mature Program Management Office that can optimize your business and technology resources across multiple projects and manage changes to your original plans? Are your business applications and IT infrastructure running on secure, supported hardware and software releases? Are these technology assets still meeting the rapidly evolving needs of your business? How do you make insourcing and outsourcing decisions? The answers to these questions determine your IT Governance processes and the business value you will realize from your IT investments.
Data Security Compliance Strategy
Our Data Classification Analysis will define the overall scope of compliance. We can then identify the security requirements across compliance programs and do a gap analysis to determine the required remediation steps. Consistent with best practices, our approach will adopt a layered, "Defense in Depth" strategy that prioritizes remediation efforts over time..
Business Application Portfolio
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Your business applications should ideally encapsulate best practice business processes, meet critical service level agreements, and constitute a portfolio of value that changes over time as the business evolves and grows.
Business Application Portfolio Management defines a repeatable process for classifying your business applications and determining the short term and longer term disposition of every application in your portfolio. It is also a key prerequisite step to your IT Infrastructure Portfolio Managment and IT Strategic Planning efforts.
IT Infrastructure Portfolio
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Understanding the short term and longer term disposition of your business applications will determine the disposition of the technology infrastructure currently meeting their hosting requirements. This technology infrastructure also constitutes a portfolio of value that changes over time. Technology Infrastructure Portfolio Management defines a repeatable process for classifying your technology infrastructure components and determining their disposition. It is also a key prerequisite step to your IT Strategic Planning efforts.
Project Portfolio Management
Your IT project approval process should be consistent, fact based, and aligned to both the Business and IT Strategic Plans. Following approval, each project becomes part of a portfolio of value to your business. Project Portfolio Management defines a repeatable process for evaluating and approving projects, assimilating them into the Business and IT Strategic Plans, and protecting the value of the resulting portfolio.
Program Management Office (PMO)
In today's fast paced business environment, your ability to learn and change has become a critical competency. Most business enterprises accomplish this change through the execution of business and IT projects. Your Program Management Office (PMO) defines the repeatable processes and technology infrastructure for executing and managing these projects using a Project Portfolio Management strategy. We can accelerate the maturity of your PMO and help facilitate the change your business needs to stay competitive and grow.
IT Sourcing Strategy
To implement the IT Strategic Plan you will need a sourcing strategy that optimizes the mix of internal and external resources. The sourcing strategy also governs IT procurement practices for hardware, software, and network services as well as hosting, disaster recovery, and business continuity services. We will help you align your sourcing strategy and tap into our extensive partner network to source highly qualified external resources at an affordable cost.