Who We Are
We are the top advisory team to senior management on Cloud Computing
and the first team to call for Cloud Computing Advisory Services (CCAS).
Our Cloud Computing Advisors are experts that understand the trends and directions of the Clouds and are senior partners with a matchless set of Leadership insights and experiences. We are uniquely qualified to advise Innovation Leaders, Transformational Leaders, Cost Reduction Leaders and Risk Management Leaders on making information technology investments to capture the business value of Cloud Computing as well as averting and responding to a Cloud Crisis.
Our Cloud Computing Advisors have led the way for many clients through their previous IT transformations, i.e. from the old mainframe to the new client/server model, as well as their move to the Internet. In addition, for over thirty years we have helped many clients prepare, approve, and manage strategic information systems plans, IT strategies and project plans for large-scale system implementations. While this new generation of technology offers new opportunities, the leadership needed to capture the value of technology is not new.
Our Cloud Computing Advisors have broad and deep technology management experience acquired during the previous generational transformations and when you combine this experience with our record of Innovation, We Know What to Do and How to Do.
“By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
And third, by experience, which is bitterest.”
— Confucius
What We Do… …And How We Do It
Our clients call us when they perceive sudden or subtle disruptions in their industry—whether these changes are strategic or structural, economic or competitive. They look to us for our unmatched set of trusted, objective, thoughtful, and experienced insights and advice. They engage us when they need to evaluate threats and opportunities, make decisions and take actions that have major implications for their people and their business.
We serve our clients with a proven and effective approach that…
Collaborates with top management
We work with top management to find and solve the most critical and challenging problems. We employ Analytics to form an overall, independent, and fact-based view of a client’s performance. We rely on facts because they provide clarity and align people. We also use Integrative Thinking to create a distinctive credible solution from opposing perspectives instead of just choosing one over another. We work directly with leaders who can partner with us to develop and accept recommendations and have the ability to implement them.
Focuses on the Customers as “True North” for creating Shareholder Value
Relentless, single-minded cost reduction leads a business away from customer relevance, which is the ultimate cause of no or too slow growth and perpetuates more cost reduction. Instead, we focus on the enhancing the relevancy of our client’s business to their customers, which entails innovative strategies using Cloud Computing.
Builds enduring relationships based on Trust
We earn our clients’ trust. We do this by consistently delivering superior service, by our professional conduct, and by our complete commitment. We lookout for and think about our clients as people and organizations, even when we are not serving them. We bring out the capabilities of clients to fully participate in the process and lead the work after we have left.
Provides Cloud Computing Advisory Services that accelerates your Success
We are focused on Cloud Computing as the Next Generation of IT and on providing the Cloud Computing Advisory Services needed to shorten your time to capture significant quantifiable business value. The services are designed and delivered with the medium-sized and small enterprises in mind. Specifically we…
- Identify Pain Points… through self-discovery, deep discussions, or Analytics… that will make a practical Business Case for adopting Cloud Computing.
- Identify the Opportunities to migrate current applications or workloads to Cloud Service Providers.
- Assess Readiness of Leadership, Governance, Organizational Competencies, Cloud Service Providers and Commitment to Cloud Computing.
- Identify the relevant Cloud Players; their possibilities, pitfalls, and practical next steps.
- Quantify the expected Business Value and Benefits…build the Business Case for Cloud Computing.
- Set Cloud Computing Strategy Objectives and prepare Roadmap and Plan.
In addition we work with Clients to…
- Build an IT Services Catalogue with the ongoing means to account for the Cost of the Services, to compare to external market prices, or to showback the Cost of Services to the business.
- Identify how IT advancements in addition to Cloud Computing can best add high-impact value to their business….how to transition from managing technology to managing business processes.
- Augment the executive team with seasoned CEO, CIO and Technology Management Consulting experiences and perspectives related to Cloud Computing.
- We are available on-demand with a retainer, with regularly scheduled sessions or for short-duration projects. Our Advisory Services are designed to be low-cost, high-impact with a quick payback!
Provides Cloud Computing Consultants
For clients that want more than advice, we provide Cloud Computing Consultants from The Consulting Network Group to address their emerging needs to architect Cloud Services, implement a Cloud Service, manage Cloud Computing Programs, manage security risks, integrate the data in SaaS and cloud applications with the rest of the enterprise, as well as to manage and improve Business Processes that span across Clouds and On-premise Applications.
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