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Professional Services Focused on Information Technology Management.
Interim Management Interim management is the temporary use of a senior business manager by a company that needs to supplement in-house resources with additional skills or specific management experience. Sensibly over-qualified for the assignment, these senior managers and directors can be in place and working effectively within one or two weeks. Example assignments include:
Data Center Closure. The interim manager assumes responsibility for the old data center freeing your employee to manage the new environment.
Transition Management. This is a similar situation to shutting down a data center. In this case, the interim manager takes charge of the old organization until it is phased out.
Secondary Oversight. This work is designed to mitigate risk in complex projects or high risk organizational transitions - such as outsourcing. The interim manager provides additional oversight to existing management. This is often called a four eyes principle where an experienced, interim manager provides additional depth to the oversight role.
Project Management Program and project management for technology deployment projects is often a temporary assignment best handled by engaging an experienced contractor. Representative projects include opening new data centers, the refresh of large numbers of work group servers across multiple data centers, migration of multiple applications to enterprise class servers, installation of grid computing platforms, and application consolidation in virtual computing environments.
Operations Consulting Our consulting services focus on data center operations. Working with the internal operations team we can develop:
Data Center Operations Processes. We assist in the development and documentation of both interim and permanent ITIL compliant processes. In addition to process development, we evaluate existing processes and recommend changes designed to improve service levels.
Service Level Agreements. We work with data center operations to develop service level agreements that are consistent with the engineered level of availability in the data center and the level of support required by the user.
Statements of work. We assist the data center planning organizations in the development of clear and concise project statements of work.
Serving the information technology industry since 1998
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