TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY

IT Strategic Planning
The IT Strategic Planning process is largely about gearing technology resources and investments most effectively toward building and supporting a business-aligned technology capability portfolio. But it also means doing it in a highly coordinated fashion and leveraging common resources and assets to bring exponential value to the business. Cambridge has assisted in a plethora of Enterprise IT Strategy formulation exercises and consistently brought value by identifying and garnering economies of scale.

Emerging Technology Evaluation
‘Staying ahead of the curve’ is usually an essential component of business strategy and can be realized when the very latest technologies are applied to a practical business application. But companies don’t want to be at the ‘bleeding edge’ where discovery investment can outweigh financial benefits. This fine balance has been found by many companies who have engaged with Cambridge to develop standard assessment frameworks and pilot programs to properly test and stabilize new technologies before putting them out to market.

IT Asset Management & Technology Standardization
Compliance to a well defined set of enterprise technology standards facilitates operational efficiencies because rationalizing your technology stack means rationalizing your support resources. In other words, support more with less. It also permits the acquisition of technology assets in larger planned quantities giving the purchasing department a much easier time to negotiate important discounts and therefore savings. But standardizing the technology portfolio must be done carefully so as not to handicap initiatives and to permit a best of breed approach to be taken. Cambridge’s long line of engagements has spread our expertise across many technologies so we understand what standards should be sought for which technology categories and when to support a heterogeneous environment.