Services

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Business leaders today are charged with sustaining focus on day-day operations, while trying to determine how innovative business transformation and Cloud adaptation strategies can increase revenues while reducing or optimizing costs. And typically, these challenges cause a material strain oninternal resources and result in elongated project timeframes. Compounding these facts are the Brand impacts incurred when a service interruption occurs. Many C-suites attempt to balance innovative transformation with ‘suspect’ production resiliency, cyber-security and demonstrable disaster recovery capabilities. This approach has repeatedly proven to be extremely problematic when something bad happens.

In weekly audiences with senior executives across all verticals, I can attest to the fact that these challenges are serious and acknowledged risks to the Brand, the employees, the customer base and the eco-partners. While you are not alone, there are tried and proven ways to remain innovative while addressing and then mitigating your current risk posture.

Our Advisory Services have been successfully employed to validate risk postures, provide alternatives for mitigation, enabling educated, fact-based decisions around how best to quickly and cost effectively, implement required changes that protect the Brand.

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Virtually every organization is in the midst of some form of Business/IT transformation. Cloud adaptation, digitalization, enhanced cyber with integrated and demonstrable, disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities, are table stakes for today’s C-suite leaders.

Understanding your operational and financial risk posture and knowing how to orchestrate your organizations strengths and weaknesses provides perspective. Having the ability to leverage the synergies of various, select, subject matter expertise can provide time, effort and cost savings, which are
exceptional outcomes.

Based on securing an understanding of current state, desired end state, business driver considerations and timelines, we conduct structured and customized Discovery Working Sessions and Workshops to develop the appropriate Roadmap alternatives available to you.

We have done working sessions with as few as 6 and as many as 70 participants for half day or multiple half days, predicated on scope. We request pre-requisite artifacts to review prior to in-person interaction to familiarize us where possible and optimize both parties time.

Post-session(s), we create a Discovery Report enabling participants to vet our understanding and interpretation of current state across the business and IT disciplines, prior to developing the Roadmap options and recommendations. Typical timeframes to complete the process are between 2-4 weeks with resources being utilized approximately 3-5 hours aggregate by discipline.

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Broker services focus on matching the right skill sets, at the right time, to address your evolving transformation, resiliency and recoverability needs. I am partnered with trusted entities with experience and deep expertise in their respective disciplines. These are the practitioners whom deliver the technical and business outcomes and deliverables we agree upon for the selected services.

We will provide custom outcomes based on your specific requirements, and develop statement(s) of work that encompass scope, outcomes and deliverables, governance, program management, timeframes, assumptions and costs.

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These service offerings are elements of BCP/DR programs that can be assessed, developed and/or enhanced as individual elements, combinations or comprehensive Recovery as a Service capabilities.  Our focus on Risk, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Program Framework capabilities are to enable appropriate mitigation options and costs to be determined by your Executive stakeholders.

These services are tailored to meet your desired outcomes by defining scope, expectations, assumptions, requisite participation, locations, methods and time frames with the appropriate Executive sponsor(s). The BCP/DR program elements encompass:

  • Program Framework
  • Governance, Risk & Compliance
  • Risk Assessments
  • Executive Business Impact Assessments
  • Resiliency & Recoverability Strategies
  • Departmental Plan Development
  • Testing Optimization
  • Continuity Program Management
  • Recovery as a Service (People, Process & Governance)

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Advisory & Practitioner Services focus on providing expert guidance and council in assessing your current state of transformation and looking at areas for synergies for integrated risk mitigation and investment optimization.

The rationalization and tiering of workloads, applications and infrastructure, result in a fact-based understanding of production resiliency business requirements. Once those criteria are established, the pull-thru becomes what Tier of Recoverability makes economic, operational sense to invest in.

Baseline and Interdependency Mapping
Cloud Readiness Assessment

Workload Adaptation Analysis
Transformational Roadmap
Data Center Migrations