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.
Put operations and IT experts at the helm of your project. LTA takes an integrative approach to project management, considering not only the needs of your system, but the needs of your business as a whole. Our diverse experience and project leadership help guide any project to a successful—and power-generating—conclusion.
OPERATIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT (PMO)
Projects that unfold without effective controls and planning take more than twice as long to complete—and cost almost twice as much. What’s more, a recent study of Fortune 500 companies revealed that 90% of projects require restarts. LTA’s Program Management Office (PMO) helps you move forward strategically, so you can avoid common pitfalls such as cost-overruns, missing functionality or dissatisfied customers. We make sure your project is on the right track from the beginning—no costly restarts required.
SERVICES INCLUDE
- Ensuring all teams are aligned on corporate objectives and stated priorities
- Defining roles and responsibilities and executive oversight
- Define explicit communication plans that convey project progress and share information between stakeholders
- Managing critical success factors
- Establishing balanced scorecards and measurements for initiatives
- Overseeing complex inter-project dependencies, project budgets and project statuses
- Resolving critical issues
- Assessing and managing resource allocation
- Providing continuous alignment of cross-team synergies
- Providing issue resolution, enforcing change control policies and ensuring that scope changes are approved and traceable to corporate objectives
- Facilitating issue escalation resolution and release planning
INTERIM IT MANAGEMENT
Bring in LTA for short-term assistance that delivers lasting results. LTA’s seasoned advisors will join your IT department on a temporary basis to provide project and general IT management, as well as experience-based insight and a lift in performance that reverberates far beyond the IT department. Our interim stints end with stable and reliable systems, consistent and reliable backups, documented procedures and an organized IT team ready to move forward with successful projects.
SERVICES INCLUDE
- Developing and implementing sound and proven IT policies, practices, governance, organization, metrics, support, training and mentoring
- Stabilizing the IT environment and planning and implementing reliable and supported systems
- Planning and implementing backups, disaster recovery and business continuity plans and other business improvements
- Developing policies, procedures and documentation
- Establishing and organizing an IT governance plan
ACTIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Take a dynamic approach to the management of your projects, using continual feedback and open lines of communication to keep projects within scope, on target and under control. LTA works seamlessly as part of your IT team to ensure that projects proceed as planned and achieve as desired. Navigate through knotty issues, stop scope creep, minimize risk and cultivate knowledge and quality, with a team of operations experts guiding you through it all.
SERVICES INCLUDE
- Identifying contract terms, conditions and additional items that need to be negotiated
- Ensuring that statements of functionality and support and materials provided during the vendor/software evaluation process are included as standard within the contract framework
- Developing the preliminary list of contract issues
- Negotiating the contracts
CORPORATE PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT (CPM)
Think bigger. CPM reaches beyond the IT department, aligning IT strategy with business strategy to help your organization work faster, move smarter and propel business performance. LTA helps you move beyond the limitations of evolutionary processes and platforms, creating a new way of doing business through optimized processes and cost-effective technology. A business using CPM is a transformed business: faster operations, improved compliance, happier customers and a greater return on investment.
SERVICES INCLUDE
- Defining business strategy and meaningful metrics
- Building metrics architecture and planning processes
- Optimizing business processes and improving program performance
- Measuring performance through budgeting and forecasting, goal setting, metrics and performance feedback
- Aligning IT and business strategy
- Managing organizational change
- Streamlining information flow and enabling data visualization