North Wind Business Solutions LLC
Navigating through transformational change with the innovative and competitive use of technology....
Information Technology Consulting Services
Defining and implementing the policies and repeatable processes that optimize the business value realized from your IT investments.
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Are you getting the expected value out of your IT investments? Do you have a written two year IT Strategic Plan that is aligned to your Strategic Business Plan? Does your IT Strategy enable your Digital Enterprise Strategy, providing you with a 360 degree view of your interactions with customers and supply chain partners? How do you decide which IT projects to approve and technology assets to purchase? Do you have a mature Program Management Office that can optimize your business and technology resources across multiple projects and manage changes to your original plans? Are your business applications and IT infrastructure running on secure, supported hardware and software releases? Are these technology assets still meeting the rapidly evolving needs of your business? How do you make insourcing and outsourcing decisions? The answers to these questions determine your IT Governance processes and the business value you will realize from your IT investments.
IT Strategic Planning
To maximize the business value of your IT investments, you must have an IT Strategic Plan that considers the five areas of service IT must deliver to the business:
1. Run the Business
2. Enhance the Business
3. Grow the Business
4. Transform the Business
5. Secure the Business
We can lead you through the development and implementation of your Enterprise IT Strategy and the reference enterprise technology architecture that will optimize the cost and value of your IT investments.
IT Due Diligence For
Mergers and Acquisitions
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The valuation you place on acquisition targets should be based in part on the maturity of their IT strategy, their technology infrastructure, their application portfolio, and their sourcing strategy.
We have extensive experieince in mergers and acquisitions and in conducting IT related due diligence activities. Once the acquisition is completed, we can assist you in adopting best practices in assimilating the acquisition and positioning your company as an industry consolidator.
Negotiating Computer
Law Agreements
Although we are not computer law attorneys, we have over 35 years of experience working with professional computer law attorneys in negotiating computer law agreements. We are expert in identifying the areas of risk and opportunity in computer law agreements and can advise your own in-house council regarding critical deal points .
We have experience in advising on mutual non-disclosure agreements, software license agreements, onshore and offshore consulting services agreements, transition services agreements, and cloud computing agreements.
Migration to Cloud Computing
We can help you select the best suited Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and support your migration to Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) Applications. We also can help you enable a hybrid cloud architecture and enable the integration of your on premise application with your SaaS applications.
Business Advisory Services
We have extensive business process management experience in order entry invventory management, revenue management, digital marketing, loyalty marketing, billing, finance and accounting, contact center, and customer service functions. We would welcome opportunities to help you optimize these functions across business units.
IT Budget Preparation
To implement the IT Strategic Plan you will need an operating budget that properly reflects investment costs in the five areas of IT service. These investments must be categorized as capital and operating expenses using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and they must fit within the broader business strategy and operating plan. We can help lead this effort and make sure that the IT Budget supports your road map for business success.