IT Leadership Advisory Services


Is your IT department regrouping, restructuring, and constantly refocusing just to survive the challenges imposed by uncertain conditions? Are you getting pulled under by dissatisfied clients, relentless cost cutting and nondiscretionary spending? If so, you may need a process tune-up.

Alliand's proprietary and flexible diagnostics examine your IT cost efficiency, process effectiveness and opportunities to realize a high performing organization. Our Diagnostics include:
Business and IT Alignment (BITA)
The pressures of a global economy, business growth, regulatory compliance and technology change are challenging you to maintain and improve your competitive advantage and efficiencies of scale. Alliand baselines your current business and IT alignment and creates a practical roadmap to improve and maximize. We answer these important questions:
  • Are your business functions and IT aligned and moving in the same direction?

  • Are you investing in the right initiatives and in the right order?
  • Have you established accountability and appropriate metrics to validate your progress
    or regress?
Voice of the Customer (VOC)
Alliand experts examine communication effectiveness between IT and clients, vendors and customers.
  • Are you managing expectations with your stakeholders?
  • Are you working on the right priorities?

Opportunities to strengthen relationships and improve customer satisfaction are identified
and quantified.
Alliance Performance Effectiveness (APE)
When divorce is not an option, our APE diagnostic helps you determine if you have the right strategic fit; the right operational fit and the right chemistry fit with your alliance partners. Alliand experts examine your internal and external alliances in three dimensions and regenerate, renegotiate and restructure to maximize performance. We help you answer these important questions.
  • Are you getting enough value from your alliances?
  • How can you handle a problem alliance or a reluctant partner quickly?
  • How do you quickly select the best partners?

Alliand's Alliance Therapy Diagnostic quickly identifies root causes and repairs under-performing customer/vendor alliances “when divorce is not an option”.
Strategic Systems Management (SSM)
Alliand experts examine your IT Systems Lifecycle Management processes end to end.
  • Are your processes complete, repeatable, controlled and synchronized?

Alliand's “just enough” process designs provide the right amount of control without the bureaucracy of SEI type methods.
Business Vulnerability Analysis (BVA)
Alliand's BVA Diagnostic examines your technology architecture and configuration, security policies, security processes and personnel roles & responsibilities, skills and preparedness. Our specialized TOPP methodology will answer these important questions.
  • What is your current exposure?
  • What are your threats?
  • What is the effectiveness of your protective measures?
  • What do you need to do?