Information Technology Strategic & Tactical Planning

IT budgeting process is often a detailed, line-item-driven exercise that fails to align with enterprise and business objectives. CIOs and IT leaders can increase the value that IT delivers by integrating the IT budgeting process within the enterprise and business strategic planning process.

Many of Farinpour Consulting clients report that IT budgeting is a four-month process, and it can be longer. While some enterprise strategic planning processes suffer from similar challenges, it is essential for CIOs and IT leaders to understand what a typical enterprise strategic planning process entails, and how IT can align its own planning and budgeting process with the enterprise to deliver the most value.

The main focus of any budget process is to ensure the effective cross-functional prioritization and alignment of key initiatives and projects. It should not be an exercise that focuses primarily on individual line items of spend. In other words, the goal of a budget process is to ensure the right business decisions are being made, in-line with the corporate strategic direction.

Farinpour Consulting will help define your organization’s fundamental IT goals and the actions needed to achieve them, ensuring that members of your organization, at all levels, are working toward the same objective. Farinpour Consulting conducts a thorough examination to identify a project’s status, goals, determine the effectiveness of current processes, recognize any problems, and develop a plan of action to solve those problems using the following tools and/or methodologies:

Acquisition Support

Farinpour Consulting’s acquisition support includes documentation, research, and program development for customers’ acquisition efforts. We research your technical design and acquisition requirements and work with your technical staff to edit and reconcile technical documentation, ensuring that the most accurate information is always available for use. Farinpour Consulting coordinates all activities with the respective Program Managers to ensure that the resulting plans and documents address their organizational needs.

Capital Planning

Organizations find the need to justify their IT spending due to tighter budgets and increasing oversights. Farinpour Consulting uses business case models to ensure an optimal mix of investment projects is selected. Farinpour Consulting helps you build a repeatable process for capturing project information and create a decision-making framework. This leads to a significant ROI, and aligns projects with the organization’s strategic goals.

Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a comprehensive framework used to manage and align an organization’s business processes, software and hardware, local and wide area networks, people, operations and projects with the organization’s overall strategy. Farinpour Consulting’s EA approach includes the synthesis and description of all of the inputs (including systems, regulations and resources) and all outputs required by the customer to develop a proposed architecture.

Infrastructure Design

Farinpour Consulting works with all involved parties to identify the specific requirements, interfaces, and access. Farinpour Consulting then construct the best possible system design to meet your organizations functional and budgetary demands. We can also evaluate your existing infrastructure design and determine the enhancements required to achieve your business goals.