Your IT projects and long term IT strategies have to succeed within—sometimes despite—other complex systems, both in and outside your organization. Bardsley Associates can identify potential sources of conflict between your IT systems and the rest of your workplace and build solutions into your IT plan. If you have started to introduce a new IT system and have hit some roadblocks, we can help you identify and evaluate your alternatives, reduce your risk exposure, and improve your outcomes.
Bardsley Associates can help you better plan for and manage the many variables that will affect the success or failure of your IT plan:
PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS: Personnel and division conflicts can derail IT projects. We can help identify and resolve those conflicts. We also identify which executive leaders and other stakeholders and decision-makers should be involved in planning and decision-making to minimize future conflicts.
POLICIES AND REGULATIONS: Your organization must comply with industry and government regulations, e.g., FDA, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, FAA. We stay up-to-date on pertinent regulations and can help you achieve compliance.
WORKFLOW: Workflows and processes can become entrenched, making it difficult to incorporate new best practices. We can help you determine whether new workflows or changes to existing workflows could improve productivity and build a new system that will be flexible enough to withstand future changes.
BUSINESS GOALS AND PRIORITIES: Your IT plan should support your strategic and business plans to help you reach your long term and short term goals. We can help you craft an IT plan that will clearly show and prioritize the benefits you need your technology systems to deliver.
TECHNOLOGY: Many organizations are haunted by their past technology decisions. We can help you avoid these problems in the future, integrate technology with your other systems, and choose the technology that will both meet your business goals and maintain your flexibility.
COMPETITIVE FORCES: Industry standards change with lightning speed. We can show you whether you need to catch up and how technology can help you differentiate your business from your competitors.
FINANCIAL: IT requires an investment of time and money that should be included in the organization’s budget, but often isn’t. We can help you chart the total cost of ownership for your technology systems and show you how soon you will see a return on your investment. This information will help you decide how much you may want to reinvest in your technology systems.
Regardless of which of these variables apply to you, we can help you better plan for and manage any or all of them.