IT Consultancy

 

SophieBelle's Information technology Consulting Division focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information
technology to meet their business objectives.

The department has key personnel that support businesses in ascertaining the best use or Technology to support strategic directives. A brief subset of areas that the department can work with your business include

 

Project Scoping and Planning

The usual problem SophieBelle finds is that a business doesn't usually know the detail of what the project is going to deliver until it starts the process. In many cases, the incremental effort in some projects can lead to significant financial loss.

The worst problem is that the baseline for evaluating the managers appointed to manage the project becomes blurred - making it more difficult to hold him or her accountable. SophieBelle works with companies to determine roles & responsibilities, governance, priority, weighting and costs of key issues and business processes to ensure success is ensured

 

Business Process and System Design

The scope of a project is linked intimately to the proposed business processes and systems that the project is going to deliver. Regardless of whether the project is to launch a new product range or discontinue unprofitable parts of the business, the change will have some impact on business processes and systems. SophieBelle's Consultants work to ensure process documentation of your business and system the IT and Business requirements are comprehensive, robust and  and linked to Business and Strategic goals.

 

Project Management Support

The most successful business projects are always those that are driven by an employee who has the authority, vision and influence to drive the required changes in a business. It is highly unlikely that a business owner (decision maker or similar) will realize the changes unless one has one of these people in the employment. However, the project leadership role typically requires significant experience and skills which are not usually found within a company focused on day-to-day operations. SophieBelle provides expertise and resources skilled in project management, change management and business change projects / programs.

 

IT Consulting Skills

SophieBelle's Consultants  possess the following skills:

• Advisory skills
• Technical skills
• Business skills
• Communication skills
• Management skills

SophieBelle Consulting fees

Under normal circumstances our fees for IT consulting is measured on a per day, per consultant basis. There is however an alternative option; fixed fee IT Consulting. A fixed fee IT consulting contract applies only to projects which are well defined, for example:

• Infrastructure refreshment projects
• Network design
• Troubleshooting IT Consulting
• Implementation of specific well described features, such as monitoring platforms
• Infrastructure Capacity Planning

Generally, fixed fee IT consulting is for a specific amount of work, within a defined timeframe.