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We’re all living through a cataclysmic event that has forced many of us to close our offices and support our employees in a ‘work from home’ environment.
The pace of change required to keep up with the crisis caught everyone by surprise. But it also gave our team at Tecala a great opportunity to test our Consultancy, Advisory and Managed Services capabilities to their absolute limits.
We responded with super-fast extension, augmentation and adjustment of existing networks and managed services so our client’s employees could continue to work and operate away from the office in a secure environment. This means we’re now managing thousands of client end-users, who are sitting within the bounds of secure extended corporate networks, are continuing with their daily tasks relatively unaffected.
As effective as your short-term solutions have been, they’re most likely not the optimal or comprehensive long-term solution you need.
What we need to do now is shift our focus on building and continuously evolving an environment that permanently supports productive and secure home and remote working. It’s very unlikely that we’ll return to a conventional office working environment with the next 1-2 years, so we’re now starting to engage with our clients to develop and implement a Strategic Technology Roadmap that allows you to create a ‘fit’ business in which IT is being used to gain competitive advantage.
Gartner recently delivered a ‘2020 CIO Agenda’ in a presentation by distinguished VP Analyst, Andy Rowsell-Jones.
In his report he highlighted the importance of:
Tecala’s Strategic Plan delivers the insight you need to anticipate opportunities and threats and to keep ahead of and navigate change with much more certainty and confidence.
The approach we’re recommending is intuitive and straight-forward. A short Discovery Session with a Senior Consultant will allow us to gather the information we need to develop your 10-Point Plan.
We’ll be splitting this engagement into four stages, so it aligns with our proven methodology:
1. Recap and Review – we’ll look at the steps you’ve taken to address the COVID-19 pandemic and review your current requirements.
2. A Competitive Environment Review of your current industry and technology capabilities.
3. Architecture Planning to identify the common architectural changes during and following a pandemic, encompassing:
4. Activation Part #1 – Effective communication and collaboration
5. Activation Part #2 – Device Lifecycle and Configuration Management
6. Activation Part #3 – Cloud Security Configuration Management
7. Maximising your Office365 license investment
8. Technology adoption and training
9. With a high-level plan in place to fine-tune your fitness, you’ll be able to accelerate your modern architecture by leveraging the Cloud to deliver the services and applications your teams need.
10. With a Strategic Technology Roadmap in place you’ll have clear understanding on the business case, benefits and high-level budget considerations for your technology platform.
You may have already started developing elements of this, but our 10-point Plan can help you gain the full picture in a clear and efficient way.
We’ll highlight all the components that make a comprehensive Strategic Technology Roadmap to enable you to augment your existing services and solutions. It’s important to develop a robust, holistic and sustainable long-term approach right now. If you feel this where you need to be, let us know and we’ll call you to get started.
By analysing your specific needs and priorities, we’ll give you a realistic and practical recommendation on what’s required to accelerate your modern architecture.
Our Senior Consultants will help you evaluate and understand your options, so you can make decisions that benefit both your business and your employees, while mitigating unnecessary risk.
Combining Strategy, Transformation, Management and Optimisation, we identify and remove the obstacles to a successful outcome, before you even know they’re there.
We believe every organisation deserves to enjoy a brilliant outcome from their technology initiatives and investments. So we create enduring partnerships with our clients, in which we navigate technology to make leading edge services and solutions accessible to everyone.
We call this the ‘Democratisation of IT’ – an ongoing, evolving process of strategise, transform, manage and optimise, in which we continually focus on your business challenges in your industry, so we can align the right tech solutions to your business objectives.
This is how we accelerate your journey towards being a fit enterprise that’s going to emerge from COVID even stronger.
How successful was your business transition to a remote workforce during the COVID crisis? Read how the National Breast Cancer Foundation was able to transition to a remote workforce environment almost overnight, and with 93% employee satisfaction.
There’s nothing like a one in 100-year pandemic to test how your IT operations are performing and how prepared you are for change.
