Technical Strategy
Insightful guidance for organisations looking to align their IT roadmap with their strategic goals
Overview
Public service organisations thinking about developing their IS strategy benefit from the pragmatic, business focus which Hytec applies to our approach.
At the forefront of all considerations is a key focus upon key strategic objectives such as reduced cost of services (efficiency), increasing joined up working and ease of use (user adoption), to ensure an optimum strategic balance.
What is the problem?
In many instances an organisations technical strategy is vendor aligned or decoupled from its strategic goals, nearly always to the detriment of performance and with added unnecessary cost as a by product.
What is the solution?
Our experts map out strategic services blueprints, thereby assisting customers to decide on the scale of the required IT and process change, this ranges from low risk process improvements, through ‘strategic’ improvements in defined areas, to full (and higher-risk) business transformation initiatives.
Adopting this approach then enables us to define the impact of such strategic initiatives on an organisations technology infrastructure, enterprise applications and services layers.
Similarly it is vital that an organisation fully understands the interdependencies between process thinking, service-oriented architecture and web services, which, are normally driven by priorities within the business strategy.
Clearly business processes have differing strategic priorities, and Hytec's approach ensures that these drive the way in which services are clustered, rather than the other way round.
Most public sector organisations need to operate in accordance with strenuous compliance requirements e.g. GCSx CoCo compliance for access to the Government Connect Secure Extranet or the Connecting for Health Information Governance Toolkit (IGT) for accessing the NHS N3 network.
Above all, an organisation’s technical strategy needs to be aligned with these current and future compliance requirements, it is therefore imperative technical strategy is formulated from an informed perspective and Hytec offers that expertise.
Hytec advises organisations on information governance in the light of these requirements and employs CESG CLAS consultants who are qualified to offer this advice. Hytec is also a member of the BSI Associate Consultant Programme for ISO 27001, and provide guidance through the development and ongoing compliance of a certifiable Information Security Management system (ISMS).
Why Hytec?
Hytec has a 30 track record of working with public sector organisations and a wealth of experience in providing impartial advice and vendor-independent guidance.
We work closely with the IT marketplace regularly undertaking feasibility studies and technology and market reviews to assist customers to structure their decision process leading to the selection of strategic platforms, as opposed to tactical solutions.
Hytec are currently working with a number of local authorities and health organisations to help to adapt their technical strategies not only to deliver the services to fulfil the increasing demands placed upon them, but also to achieve this in spite of the recent budget cuts, imposed by central government’s austerity measures.
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