Whether strengthening business partner relationships, deploying process improvements across an enterprise, or ensuring efficiency with basic "run the business" capabilities, organizations must leverage a solid technology infrastructure as a strategic business asset. Infocean extensive experience with technology infrastructure strategy, planning, design, and implementation enables us to provide solutions that position organizations for success by providing business and technology leaders with the tools and confidence to make sound tactical and strategic decisions. Our business-aligned solutions help companies run their business, generate returns on their technology investments, and develop strategic capabilities for the overall enterprise.
We are highly sought after for our industry experience and business acumen. Infocean helps companies in the following areas:
Compliance & Risk
- Ability to link infrastructure risks to business and applications gaps
- Blend of legal, risk management and business skills with deep technical experience which helps us link compliance requirements to optimal remediation
- Understanding of technology and technology operations applied to supporting infrastructure
- Understanding the people, processes and technology behind running complex IT infrastructure
- Practical approach based on delivering quantifiable results and value
- Understanding of how to ensure a successful audit which typically improves operations of client companies
IT Optimization
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) provides the IT process framework. Adoption of Information Technology Infrastructure Library is widely accepted as best practice for IT service management. Adherence to regulatory-driven compliance is supported and closely linked to IT service management practices.
ITIL can be somewhat confusing to decipher and most certainly ambiguous when determining how to put into action these best practices. Knowing what is only part of the equation; knowing how is where Infocean brings real value to our partners.
Business & IT Alignment
IT organizations historically are aligned directly with the businesses they support and not with IT as a whole. This, by design, creates myopic areas of technology and processes. Infocean focuses on assisting with project and infrastructure technology alignment across these areas to drive consolidated and cost-effective architectures and portfolio plans.
However, we don't claim to know your organization better than you do. Our focused approach allows us to work with your company to solve these organizational, architectural and portfolio management challenges. We work as facilitators to help your organization overcome its challenges and implementation obstacles.
Technology Planning
Year after year, IT planning is still challenged. According to CIO magazine close to 70 percent of IT projects fall in the failed or challenged category – the latter meaning that projects were delivered but did not produce the promised value for the customer. Two common reasons projects fail are:
- A poorly defined organizational strategy
- The lack of a well-designed process to filter out low-value projects
Infocean provides tools and best practices to ensure the success of your periodic planning cycles. Any of the following tasks can be a starting point for prioritizing technology projects:
- High level data project capture and strategic roadmap development
- Project categorization and prioritization framework development
- Project budget and level of effort estimation
- Project justification and total cost of ownership (TCO)
Consensus driven planning
Creating a business-aligned project/program portfolio is a key deliverable in this exercise and an ideal starting point. Other deliverables include:
- Portfolio roadmap
- Prioritization matrix
- Project estimation catalog
- Resource assessment and categorization
- Resource planning for portfolio
