Advisory Services

IT

We help the IT function address the issues related to both risk and performance improvement.

IT Advisory Services: delivering business value from investment in technology

We help deliver improved business performance by addressing the IT and business agendas together. We work directly with CIOs and others to create a more effective IT organisation. This allows IT to drive process efficiencies throughout the organisation and better support and deliver transformational business change.

• Optimising IT value
  We help our clients increase the value realised from their investment in IT – enabling business agility and growth, reducing cost, managing risk or improving the effectiveness of the IT service.
• Critical programme delivery
  We help manage the successful delivery of major client programmes and a better return on investment.
• Intelligent sourcing
  We help our clients identify and realise the potential in their sourcing options to create value for their business functions and satisfy complex IT requirements.
• Information exploitation
  We help deliver tangible value; increased revenues, reduced costs and managed risks, through better information management.

IT risk and assurance services: helping IT manage risk

Our IT risk and assurance professionals can help your organisation address the challenge of managing IT risks in a way that is in line with your business strategy.

We draw on in-depth technical and IT-related risk management knowledge from our global organisation, to help you with:

• IT controls services
  Our IT controls services focus on the design, implementation and rationalization of controls that potentially reduce the risks in the application, infrastructure and data layer of your IT function. Information security is a key area of focus in the current landscape of mobile technology, social media and cloud computing.
• IT risk transformation
  We help you identify your most important risks, design frameworks to manage them and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of IT risk management through technology assistanace.
• IT assurance
  Our independent position and assessment capabilities provide clients with a candid and reliable overview of their IT risk landscape and the controls in place.

Underpinning our IT–related capabilities are our strengths and skills in day-to-day operations, management and strategic decision-making. This includes skills in the supporting areas of:

• People and organisational change
• Strategic direction
• Programme management