Business and IT provides professional management consulting to all business sectors, helping clients identify and address business opportunities whilst supporting the delivery of required change to improve business performance and reduce risk. We can provide support and advice on any areas of:

• Programme and Project Management
• IT Team Transformation
• Interim Management
• Remediation of Business Issues
• Budget Analysis and Forecasting

Our unrivalled reputation for providing independent, high quality services and support within a flexible and collaborative framework attracts clients serious about developing revenues and profits. We are proud to be able to deliver significant added value to our clients, and as a result have built up strong relationships across a broad range of businesses, suppliers and industry bodies.

Programme and Project Management

It's vital that every IT implementation is run as a controlled project. Good project management doesn't have to be time consuming or exhaustive, it just simply needs to be used pragmatically depending on the size of the project and the risks associated with it. Business and IT has years of experience rolling out projects all the way from small projects requiring just a couple of hours of planning to very large international projects taking months to plan. We use Prince 2 methodologies and as anyone who knows Prince 2 will confirm, it's a very practical, adaptable and common sense approach to project management that ensures the risks are identified and the resources allocated and managed efficiently no matter how large or small the project is.

Team Transformation

There can be many reasons as to why an IT Team is underperforming: -

• poor management
• poor direction or strategy
• personal or personality issues
• square peg, round hole syndrome (staff in the wrong roles)
• work load
• low morale
• poorly performing systems
• isolation from business

to name but a few. We find in the majority of cases that most teams can be turned around by simply spending time getting to the root cause of the problem, this can be very difficult to do for the incumbrnt management as they're usually entrenched within the issue whether they're the cause or not. Business and IT can provide an independent view, outside of your businesses politics or day-to-day issues. This allows us to quickly get to the bottom of the problem and provide a remedial solution.

Whether you just need analysis or the entire team transformed, Business and IT can help. We have over 20 years of management expereince at International FTSE-100 director level.

Interim Management

Businesses from time to time have temporary staffing issues, whether it’s because of a leaver, maternity, long term sick or you've simply not found the right candidate yet. Either way we have the skills and experience to very quickly step into a temporary management role and keep your IT Team motivated and performing as it should therefore leaving you to forget about IT and get on with your own role safe in the knowledge that its being looked after by professionals.

Remediation of Business Issues

However well your company is run, problems can arise which threaten the efficiency of its operation, its reputation and its revenue and profitability streams. Business and IT work with clients in this position to help them:

• Analyse and diagnose the source of the problem and the scale of its impact
• Re-establish processes
• Restore operational and financial viability
• Rebuild client and market confidence through restored operational competence and strong communication
• Where in-house and existing teams need to be supplemented to achieve remediation, Business and IT can provide and manage the additional resources required

Budget Analysis and Forecasting

This service covers many aspects of cost budgetting, from year end budgetting though to project budgetting, a good set of budgets can either mean the green light for a profitable project or the prevention of a costly mistake.

Business and IT has experience of running multi-million, multi-currency projects and budgets and can help you either confirm a budget or we can write it from scratch.