ITPMG

CIOs are constantly bombarded with new technology trends and products. While differentiating between which trend is hype and what has long term potential or immediate business value is tough, today's CIO is faced with an even greater challenge -- navigating the myriad of best of breed products. Which solutions will improve enterprise operations and the bottom line? Which brings increased productivity and greater effectiveness along with added features and functions?

While vendor vision and positioning matrices and feature and functions lists may satisfy some of the decision making criteria, only ITPMG's multi-dimensional analysis reduces the time and cost of vendor selection and enables better business decision making.

Description
ITPMG score carding expertise helps CIO's determine the fit and effectiveness of a vendor product or solution. Our professionals score card vendor offerings, by fitting them into a variety of business and technology scenarios, determine how the technology ranks in meeting your critical success factors. Because at ITPMG, we know best in class technology solutions can only be best in class if they fit your environment.

We begin by surveying the technology you have, planned projects, and acquisition strategies. This is a unique and complete record from which an ITPMG professional will begin to evaluate product options. When faced with a decision on a technology, ITPMG will evaluate your options, by ensuring your infrastructure portfolio is up-to-date, that key business conditions and enterprise operating environment are factored into the equation. ITPMG will help you determine the most appropriate business-technology solution for your organization. We utilize a combination of our extensive experience, and a sophisticated methodology to help you make your decision, and then will support the implementation phase of a project process as needed.

Over the course of the project lifecycle, a seasoned ITPMG professional will provide a quarterly project review providing up-to-date information on the selected vendor, changing business conditions, trends and to assure competitive terms and conditions are a part of your existing contracts. We will also keep you apprised of vendor up sell and cross sell strategies, highlight product usability information, gap analysis and identify potential issues that can be the basis for unpleasant surprises.

Deliverables
Standard

As part of ITPMG's consulting service, we will provide our expertise and methodology-driven approach providing our input into up to four technology decisions per year. ITPMG will deliver a report offering insight into the effectiveness and fit to objective of each of the technology categories, vendor products, the vendor company, noting any other trends in the industry that may affect a decision regarding the business capability.

Optional

ITPMG can provide further value to your technology decisions. In addition to evaluating technology as part of our consulting service, ITPMG is available to assist you in strategic planning to ensure project expectations and outcomes are carefully monitored, RFP creation and review, and vendor relationship management., and performance reviews.

Target audience
CIOs,IT executives, senior project managers, and CFOs.
Executives who find it challenging to sort through the many claims made by technology vendors.
Technology vendors who are looking to stay abreast of what is happening in the theirs and adjacent markets, in order to proactively prevent threats from existing and new competitors.