IT Consulting Services
Getting the business of technology right so innovation succeeds
Flexible consulting and support to suit your needs
Innovation Ready's services include:
Strategy development or review
Vendor and technology selection
Technology review, diagnostics and optimisation
Project, change and communication management
Data analysis and migration
Process mapping and continuous improvement
Our IT consulting services are tailored to suit your current needs and priorities. For more information or to discuss your organisation’s needs, please get in touch.
Strategy facilitation and documentation
WHY IT MATTERS
Without a clear strategy, alignment is impossible. Once your team has a clear direction, it’s easier to plan, prioritise and execute on innovation and improvement.
WHAT WE DO
Immersive, interactive sessions which explore your current and future business from multiple perspectives
Condensed collaboration to improve alignment and communication
Review and refinement of your existing strategy, or creation of a new strategy from scratch
Project planning
WHY IT MATTERS
A holistic project plan helps keep leaders, employees and vendors on track to a shared goal. It tracks resources, risks, constraints and dependencies to give structure to your project.
WHAT WE DO
Create integrated and holistic plans using decades of experience in project management and Agile methodologies
Build in the ability to flex and change in response to changing needs or conditions – while still focusing on the key objectives
Project management
WHY IT MATTERS
Your team will be innovating at the same time they are keeping the business running. Project management makes that juggling easier. It sets timelines, budgets and milestones so you stay on track.
WHAT WE DO
Using Agile frameworks like SCRUM, we can manage projects professionally with:
Clear forecasting and timelines
Breakdown and assignment of work
Monitoring and review to ensure the project stays on track
Change management solutions
WHY IT MATTERS
If your people don’t understand or don’t like the changes your innovation brings, the entire project will stall.
WHAT WE DO
Engage the right people early
Communicate the reason for changes and the impact on different people
Seek feedback and adjust plans and processes where necessary
Persona creation
WHY IT MATTERS
The earlier you identify the groups (personas) who will be affected by change, the better you can educate, communicate and manage change.
WHAT WE DO
Identify key stakeholders in your change project and map out what information, communication and training they need, at what time.
Communication planning and execution
WHY IT MATTERS
Everyone in your business needs to understand what you are doing and why. During the project itself, workload is higher and tensions may rise – if everyone understands the goal in advance, this is easier to work through.
WHAT WE DO
Develop communication plans
Create multimedia assets to assist in communication
Confirm key messages
Measure communication effectiveness and adjust as necessary
Learning design and delivery
WHY IT MATTERS
Innovation means change. For your people on the front line, that means new ways of working. They need to know the new tech and new processes – and they need the information easily available after the initial training too.
WHAT WE DO
Design and deliver training on new systems and processes
Create performance support assets to ensure consistent processes and data best practices
Measure and assess learning outcomes
Process improvement services
WHY IT MATTERS
Your processes are how your organisation performs every day. They may be documented, or they may not. They may be consistent from one person to the next, or they may vary.
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Understanding what your current processes are, then working out how to improve them, is essential to get value from your innovation project.
WHAT WE DO
Process mapping – understanding how you do things now
Process re-engineering – creating better ways to do things
Process automation – once a process is efficient and consistent, it may be possible to automate. This frees your staff for higher value activities.
Assessment and diagnostics
WHY IT MATTERS
To help you, we need to understand you. Your current business, your goals, your systems.
WHAT WE DO
We use a range of assessments and diagnostic tools to review your business
For detailed diagnostics, we may call on partners with specialist expertise
Team innovation readiness
WHY IT MATTERS
Some people are more open to change and innovation than others. Understanding your team and their level of readiness is a vital early step in planning your change management activity.
WHAT WE DO
Use survey, sentiment analysis tools and/or workshops to determine how open your team are to innovation and
Develop a plan to address areas of concern so that your team is ready, willing and able for continuous improvement.
Vendor strategy
WHY IT MATTERS
Your vendors should be partners, working with you. To do that effectively, they need clear deliverables and you need to measure their performance against those deliverables.
WHAT WE DO
We partner with you to assess your technology vendors, document your needs and identify the right vendor and agreement.
Technology assessment
WHY IT MATTERS
our current technology may or may not be able to support your needs. We perform gap analysis, and recommend a path to improve technology, upgrade or replace your existing technology and drive better performance.
WHAT WE DO
We conduct holistic performance assessments, including:
Your processes
Your team’s technical capability and know-how
Your data and information needs
Your vendors
Your hosted platform performance
Data assessment, strategy and migration
WHY IT MATTERS
The quality of your data has a huge impact on your business. High quality, complete data allows you to make informed decisions and to leverage emerging technologies, including AI.
WHAT WE DO
Review your data for completeness and quality
Recommend options to improve existing data where required
Review data hosting, privacy and security
As necessary, develop a plan to keep your valuable data secure
Future-ready IT solutions, built around you
Innovation Ready’s IT consulting services are tailored to your specific circumstances. We often start with a smaller discovery project, which gives us enough knowledge to make further recommendations.
We focus on training and upskilling your existing leadership team to equip you for the future.
For more information or to discuss your organisation’s needs, please get in touch.