Apple Trees Consulting

IT Interim Mangement & Transformation Specialists

IT Programmes & Projects - Apple Trees Consulting can help define, plan, manage and deliver IT projects of all sizes and types, ranging from technical infrastructure projects, through IT efficiency improvements and outsourcing to significant business change projects.  We specialise in the review and recovery of poorly performing projects and can help you to turn a disaster into a triumph.

Interim CIO - Apple Trees Consulting can provide support and continuity management if there is a gap in your IT management team ranging from managers to the leadership team to the CIO themselves.  We can cover the gap, and not only ensure there is a continuiity of leadership, but that the time is spent addressing any underlying issues in the IT team.

IT Organisation - Apple Trees Consulting can help you define the optimum IT organisation to meet your business and service delivery challenges.  We specialise in the creation of IT shared service centres including across multiple geographies.  As well as the defintion, we can help with a business case and rationale to support the transformation, as well as project managing the transformation for you.

IT Operating Model - in conjunction with transformation the IT organisation, or as a separate exercise, we can help you to develop and implement an IT operating model that delivers excellent customer service as well as cost-effective IT delivery by implementing the best of the various IT models on the market (ITIL, CoBIT, CMMi, SixSigma) alongside processes and practices more specific to your organisation.

IT Cost Effectiveness - Apple Trees Consulting has helped a number of multi-nationals implement cost effectiveness programmes to help deliver real cost savings that are shown in the bottom-line, as well as delivering service improvements at the same time.

Project & Portfolio Management - we can help you to define, design and implement a project and portfolio management process which wil ensure that your organisation is focussing its IT investment in the right areas, and then subsequently that these projects are delivered on time, to quality and to budget.

Portfolio Management Tools - we have extensive experience of developing and implementing portfolio management tools from the leading vendors, but we can also help you to implement a simple yet effective manual process using standard desktop tools, whilst still retaining control and governance of your IT investment.

IT Programme Office - any organisation with more than a few simple project will benefit from an IT programme office (PMO).  We can help you to define and implement a PMO, and ensure that the appropriate metrics are in place to ensure its continued success.

IT Finance - IT finance is often a challening area to manage effectively, especially when your organisation wants to link IT spend to IT consumption for example.  We have extensive experience in the development and implementation of finance models to provide you with robust control of your IT costs and allowing you to show how the spend on IT is actually delivering a realisable business benefit.

Procurement - through our links with assoicates, we can work with you to implement a structured IT procurement process which will enable significant savings on your your current supplier spend.  In addition, we can help you to implement category management and the internal controls necessary to ensure your IT teams are maximising their spend with your strategic vendors and minimising leakage to non-strategic vendors

 

 

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