Strategy and Process Consulting IT Process Assessment Technology Roadmap Development IT Governance and PMO Implementation IT Architecture Value, Profit, and Cost Improvement

Strategy and Process Consulting

The success of your business is often dictated by the industry model/framework your software engineering works on. An objective assessment and exploration of alternatives can often uncover potential opportunities and scope for improvement. UST Strategy and Process Consulting Services can show your business the roadmap to increased ROI in short timeframes by making the business, not the framework it uses, be responsible for itself. Framework is a precarious component that calls for extensive experience and expertise to fine-tune for performance, both of which we are equipped with. Besides our ability for innovation and our approach to extracting and interpreting the metrics involved in business processes reinforce our solutions.

IT Process Assessment

UST can help you assess your software engineering processes against a variety of industry models/frameworks like CMMi, SOX, COBIT, ITIL, BS7799/ ISO 17799, and ISO 9000:2000. This exposes areas of your business where there is scope for improvement. We adopt a five-phased methodology including Planning, Analysis, Design, Development, and Implementation. The entire process involves numerous parameters and checkpoints for accurately evaluating the direction of your business and exploring critical success factors. We apply industry-best standards and make suggestions for improvements keeping your core-business needs in focus.

Technology Roadmap Development

A sustainable, responsive, and adaptable IT organization is often the result of collaborative teamwork based on deep core competencies and driven by an architecture framework plan and a clear prevision of future strategy and objectives. UST's fundamental concept is based on taking IT off the critical path. Realizing this goal makes the business capable and responsible for its own growth.

IT personnel both knowingly and unknowingly put themselves on the critical path to business success. Our tools and processes reduce this dependency significantly, enabling the business to plan and exceed market needs.

IT Governance and PMO Implementation

The UST approach to IT Governance and PMO implementations is based on five key steps: risk assessment, compliance testing, internal audit, segregation of duties, and ultimately the implementation of the PMO. By clearly identifying all risks, obvious or hidden, and then forming and testing the controls around these risks, we ensure compliance without work stoppage. The PMO and governance groups produce the correct data using a segregated approach to duties combined with verified reports and internal audits, which serve as solid tools for operating the day-to-day business.

IT Architecture

With the introduction of new technologies, previously unattainable business revenue has been created. Also, the role architecture plays in realizing revenue has dramatically increased over the past 10 years. However, there have also been many unsuccessful business initiatives that could be directly attributable to architecture. For instance, the architecture is sometimes responsible for IT being on a business critical path where delays, cost overruns, and unanticipated support problems create a ripple effect that causes project failure.

UST offers advanced architecture best practices that take IT off the critical path to the extent it is feasible and prudent. Often, we successfully eliminate the interference of architecture in the success of IT projects.

Value, Profit, and Cost Improvement

Investment Profitability Assurance (IPA) is an evolution that ensures that the majority, if not all, of IT projects are financially successful; that the right mix of projects are selected for maximum financial benefit, and that the senior management gets the information necessary to plan for financial outcomes that surpass expectations.

The following figure illustrates an instance of the savings that can be achieved by adopting IPA. IC.

IPA is an extensive adaptation of a methodology that was originally developed in 1973, later refined, and was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. The adaptation of the Nobel work, originally created for Wall Street financial instruments, required over 4,000 hours of research, analysis, and development to refine IPA specifically for the business and IT consulting marketplace. The objective of this effort was to create a highly effective approach to justify large and complex business investments in IT.