Captive to your costs?

Do you spend most of your IT budget maintaining operations? Many companies find that their operations costs are eating more of their fair share of the budget, keeping them from technology investments to grow their business.

You probably have tried restructuring and outsourcing and that pain in your gut doesn't agree with the proposed long-term benefits. Why?  Those options often cause relapse,  cause loss of organizational operational knowledge, impact morale, or cause an unplanned impact on your core business operations and customer satisfaction.

Together, we will look at non-traditional transformation approaches with you. We use techniques we have proven in other companies to transform your operation. Examples include service and asset rationalization, IT service and operations automation, and user self-service or LEAN-based assessments**. These approaches allow for the redeployment of human resources and have spin-off benefits of investment in your people and reducing contractor costs.

**Other specialized contractors may deliver LEAN assessments on behalf of Stronghold Consulting

 Four reasons: 

1. Roles and experience

Our leadership has held roles in IT and Business Operations, Projects, PMO, Business champion and Sponsorship, IT Governance and Leadership 

2. Scale

We have worked for or provided long-term services at a Multinational with 10,000-employee corporation with 7000 locations to a 35-employee not-for-profit charity to a single-shingle IT design consultant.

3. Span

Hands-on experience, architecture for, project delivery on or operations leadership with all major disciplines of IT: Application Development to Network, On-premise to multi-Cloud, Application to Network and telecom Cyber Security

4. M&A Due-diligence Integration and Organic Growth design, implementation and operation

We believe that our largest asset to you is our direct experience with asset valuation, due diligence and integration of mergers and acquisitions  (M&A) over 15 years.   We have integrated over $25 billion USD in 8 separately acquired assets and more than that in greenfield growth construction projects.  

This exposure gives us incredible exposure to:

 * How IT is pivotal to successful integration and ultimate success in the M&A business case

* What M&A 'types' and 'features' of the planned acquisition integration will drive business and IT integration risk

* How to predict post-integration operational IT Operational and future investment costs in large enterprise