| IT
Health Check
IT Health checks from W1 Consulting are aimed
specifically at businesses making investment decisions; whether
this is private equity, outright buy-out or conventional venture
capital, W1 helps you find both the hidden IT opportunities that
can enable greater value to be enjoyed from a given investment as
well as establishing those IT ‘Gotchas’ that in turn
represent the need for further ‘hidden’ investment.
W1 consultants accelerate the whole due diligence activity by getting
to the detail of an IT solution swiftly and efficiently; the methodology
applied follows the simple rules of balancing people, process and
technology, with this W1 can deliver a comprehensive and objective
health check that covers the following:
People Assessment
- The alignment of the business’ goals with
IT
- Leadership capability – is this function
‘led’?
- Structure, skills and people development
Process Assessment
- Business Continuity – what keeps the business
running?
- Disaster Recovery – process and procedure
to re-instate lost IT services
- Compliance – Licensing, escrow, support
agreements
Technology Assessment
- Fitness for purpose – does IT truly support
the business?
- Capacity for growth and resilience to change
- Operational performance
In each of these areas, W1 creates
a simple scoring mechanism that feeds the concluding assessment
of an overall IT health. The output report is succinct, to the point
and looks to present real recommendations to the investor going
forward which are based on a well thought through gap analysis on
a businesses IT infrastructure and overall solution.
The bottom line is that W1 wants to facilitate a swift and accurate
assessment of a key element to your investment. Using ‘health’
as a simple analogy, W1 will assess temperature, heart rate, blood
pressure, weight and overall well being, then give you the results,
nothing more, nothing less, and from this assessment, you’ll
know whether the patient is about to run a marathon, or just about
to run themselves into the ground.
“W1 IT health checks… Helping you ‘truly’
understand where your investment is heading” |
