Business / Technology translation service
What is it?
A consultancy engagement, working with the business management of SMEs to establish high-level technical goals, and a consistency of approach.
Why do it?
Business people and technology folks often speak different ‘languages’, and the mutual incomprehension can lead to tension and missed opportunities.
Souter Consulting can bridge this gap, and help the business agree with the technologists a plan ahead to keep the business in business!
Often, the business management of SMEs are unaware of key technical trends and fail to take advantage of how technology can be harnessed to maximise business performance.
This product / offering aims to remedy this by looking at:
- What applications might benefit the business
- Gap analysis between existing infrastructure and best practice
- Integration issues between different applications, how this might be resolved, and what the business impact of sub-optimal integration might be.
There is an obvious link with the business / web agency translation service.
What are the benefits?
Have a high-level blueprint for technology issues, and establish what needs to change, why, and what could be done about it.
Track record
- ‘Conceptual solution design’ on a major public sector outsourcing bid – translating business requirements into a technology blueprint.
- Very large Government department – responsible for structured and unstructured data for a team 2000 colleagues.
- Technology strategy report of a Trade Union
- Fujitsu GMS requirement capture
- Knowledge Management directory of expertise
