HIRING AN INDEPENDENT IT CONSULTANT

HIRING AN INDEPENDENT IT CONSULTANT

When organizations think about business expansion or setting up a new business, they do a lot of planning of business strategy, goals, manpower, locations, and critical success factors. Sometimes they miss on the IT Strategy as they think it is a support function, and mostly for payroll or financial accounting. What they forget and sadly miss out is the advantages of a full Information systems assisted strategy. A Systems Architecture is designed to help you achieve what you have set for the organization - Goals (includes revenue and profits , locations, etc.), Organization structure , business processes (stems from the business functions you want) , and critical success factors . 

A good IT consultant helps you achieve the above very efficiently and effectively. Let me take a minute to describe about the need for an IT consultant:

     INDEPENDENT IT CONSULTANT

A.      FOR SMALLER COMPANIES WITHOUT IT MANAGEMENT SKILLS

·         AS VALUABLE ALLIES TO ORGANIZATION

·         CONSIDER AN INVESTMENT RATHER THAN A COST

(A SERVICE PROVIDER DOES FOLLOWING WITH A VESTED INTEREST IN SELLING SERVICES)

·         GATHERS REQUIREMENTS, PLANS THE PROJECT, MANAGES IT

(A consultant plays a vital watchdog role to ensure that the service provider delivers what the client needs, not what the provider wants to deliver)

B.      FOR COMPANIES HAVING OWN IT MANAGEMENT TEAM

(GENERALLY THEY OUTSOURCE FULL OR PART OF NON STRATEGIC IT)

·         CERTAIN BESPOKE PROJECTS OR ACTIVITIES CAN BE OUTSOURCED TO INDEPENDENT IT CONSULTANTS

o   Eg. WE NEED TO DO AN INDEPENDENT INFORMATION SECURITY ASSESSMENT

o   Eg. WE NEED TO DEVELOP A SYSTEMS REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS OR PREPARE AN RFP OF A NEW APPLICATION

o   Eg. CAN YOU HELP US IN BUSINESS FUNCTIONAL TESTING?

o   Eg. CAN YOU MANAGE THE IT TEAM FOR US – OUR CIO HAS LEFT US. ANOTHER SR MANAGER IS IN CHARGE, HE MAY NEED YOUR HELP

So, what are you waiting for? 

HIRE QUALITY IT EXPERTISE THAT WON’T WASTE YOUR BUDGET AND WILL DELIVER WHAT YOU NEED

This article is written by Mr. Anil Oberai, C.E.O Of OberaiITConsultancy, with more than 2 decades of experience in managing and Consulting for IT Projects. To know more, Pl visit http://aniloberai.branded.me