MAKE YOUR BUSINESS HUM
LTA offers a comprehensive selection of business operations and IT services to make your business run smoother, faster and stronger. Whether your’re looking to implement a new solution, build better processes or refine your project or operational strategy, our expert advisors have the right solution for you.
IT and business strategy are two parts of the same whole. A comprehensive, thoughtful strategy makes you nimble, able to bounce back from project troubles and prevent issues from occurring in the first place. Take advantage of our advisors’ wide-ranging real-world expertise and craft a strategy that supports the success of your organization.
INFORMATION SERVICES PLANNING
A deliberative sourcing strategy delivers improved services and lower costs, guiding decisions on which functions require outside help—and why. Our cross-industry expertise, proven methodologies and benchmarking databases provide the perfect platform for information services planning. We’ll help you analyze your current needs and create a technology services blueprint for the future. Even in the face of evolving business needs and competitive pressures, you’ll always know where to turn for skills and resources.
SERVICES INCLUDE
- Aligning of strategy with business strategy and objectives
- Analyzing current sourcing plan
- Determining which IT functions to in-source and which to out-source, weighing value, relative effectiveness, ease of sourcing and integration
DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING
Effective disaster recovery planning allows you to rally from major IT problems and move forward, stronger and better prepared than before. We help our clients analyze their risk and evaluate a wide range of recovery strategies for critical business functions. Our industry-crossing experience helps us pinpoint the functions that must continue to keep your business running and develop the best strategies for keeping them online. We also work to ensure that each employee knows their role in the event of an IT emergency, emphasizing testing, training and maintenance—so if the worst ever happens, you’re ready.
SERVICES INCLUDE
- Analyzing risk and business impact to business functions, identifying core functions that must remain online
- Establishing the monitoring of operations so that minor disturbances don’t evolve into disasters
- Evaluating recovery strategies and options for critical functions
- Conducting an independent, objective cost/benefit analysis
- Documenting the business continuation plan
- Training employees and leading testing and maintenance
PROJECT RESCUE
Get your troubled project on the right path. The decision on whether to continue with a failing project or to shut it down is a difficult—and critical—decision. We make sure you’re armed with the right information, conducting an audit to determine what went wrong, what has been invested and the options available. If the project moves forward, we do it right—you’ll have a detailed rescue plan, based on our decades of industry and consulting experience, that lays out the actions necessary for project survival and success. If the project must come to an end, we help you shut it down in a way that preserves any assets and minimizes expenses. Whichever route your project takes, we’ll make sure your organization comes out stronger on the other side.
SERVICES INCLUDE
- Examining project for warning signs of failure, including people-related, process-related and technology-related risks
- Conducting a gap assessment to compare project governance, structure and activities to best practices
- Performing an audit to determine amount of money spent, amount committed and options for moving forward
- Developing a rescue plan, including a detailed set of necessary actions structured by immediate, one-week and one-month time periods
- Developing a termination plan (as needed)
- Providing pre-emptive diagnosis and remedy in the case of suspected project troubles