What We Deliver
In Athens Group we found a dependable partner who could dig quickly into technical details and create a strategy that clearly meets the needs of the business. Their team's combination of technology and communication skills have earned our respect.”
—Greg Gibson, President, Gibson Consulting Group
Our proven approach ensures your technology investments deliver value and meet critical business needs
An effective technology strategy is aligned with business priorities and provides clear expectations to all stakeholders as to how technology investments will be made and managed. A successful plan enables IT to implement multi-year projects such as legacy evolution, and to formulate detailed action plans with clear accountabilities. The result is measurable bottom-line results.
Technology plans focused only on budgets and maintaining status quo often reinforce the notion that technology is just a cost of doing business, making strategy unnecessary. Linking the technology strategy to business objectives and providing an actionable roadmap creates a business case for technology investments, raising the value that IT can deliver.
How We’re Different
How We Do It
How We’re Different
- We take a comprehensive approach. An actionable technology strategy should include more than just how you implement your applications and computing infrastructure. It should also encompass how you leverage your people, organization, governance, and processes.
- We tailor our service to the current and future needs of the business, and the culture of your organization.
- Our recommendations are realistic and actionable. By helping our customers with hands-on implementation of software solutions, Athens Group has relevant and ever-growing real-world experiences upon which to base our recommendations.
How We Do It
Athens Group consultants work with you to customize an approach for the development or refinement of your strategic plans, assessing them against four major components of Technology Strategy:
- Strategic Direction that clearly defines the vision and mission of the IT organization using a balanced set of performance measures to define and sequence strategic initiatives.
- Business & Technology Alignment to understand future business needs, assess current IT capabilities and identify a prioritized set of initiatives required to "close the gap."
- Technology Roadmap that translates the Strategic Direction into detailed implementation plans with prioritized programs and projects and assigned accountabilities.
- Virtual CIO to provide experienced leadership as an integral part of your senior management team and to direct critical technology initiatives.
We provide the following related additional services and solutions:
Architectural Analysis and Design
Package Selection
Project Management
ROI Improvement