Strategic Guidance

In today’s dynamic business environment, you need proven IT leadership input to guide technology investment decisions. Our experienced technology executives, internal subject matter experts and industry-specific business acumen are just a few of the reasons why companies of all sizes turn to the Provali Group for cost-effective, ongoing management and direction setting. By taking advantage of our scale and depth of experience, you can stay focused on your core business objectives while ensuring that your technology decisions are tightly aligned.

IT Governance often takes the form of an IT Steering Committee. Our team delivers a proven approach for establishing or enhancing a high performing IT steering committee that will:

Ensure business priorities are clearly understood by IT
Set the strategic agenda for technology investments
Quantify the technology-based initiative’s impact to the business (i.e. ROI)
Manage overall implications and trade offs of new projects or priorities against existing IT workload
Communicate the company’s business objective from a technology standpoint

The Provali Group’s IT Governance services will help you dramatically reduce technology risks, while increasing productivity and efficiency. We’ll help you collaborate more effectively with your suppliers and partners and improve the overall ROI of your technology investments.

Tactical management

The Provali Group also assists with the tactical management aspects of IT Governance, including:

Reviewing and approving all significant IT capital and operational expenditures
Ensuring that the business understands IT’s capacity for projects and support
Assisting with prioritizing and allocating IT resources
Monitoring progress of IT-centric initiatives
Approving use of all outside technology vendors
Researching and assessing relevant competitor and technology trends
Discussing major business initiatives that may impact IT

In addition to ongoing participation in monthly or quarterly IT steering committee meetings, we often serve in a fractional CIO capacity for many of our mid-market clients.