IT Consulting For Business
If you are struggling to understand, manage or develop your IT systems, you will be working inefficiently, wasting time and losing money. At Charlton Networks we understand companies like yours need to deploy effective IT solutions to operate an efficient business. This is why we offer IT Consulting Services that help you audit, plan, implement and operate business IT networks & systems.
We help you develop strategy, plan & deploy new solutions suitable for your business, situation and budget. Contact us to talk about your needs or find out more detais below.
IT Consulting at a Glance
IT AUDIT
Understanding your current IT systems is the starting point for any development, improvement or on going IT support. Our IT Audit service delivers this understanding in clear non-technical language. By auditing IT systems and networks, we enable you to fully understand your entire IT set up and move things forward.
Try our free network audit to get you started.
- Discover and document all your IT assets
- Understand your IT network connectivity
- Generate an inventory of hardware & software
- Analyse your company data and who is accessing it.
- Audit your current telecoms solutions
- Understand your IT capacity & baseline current use
- Start to plan, redesign and move your IT forward
IT DESIGN
We work with you to review your business strategy and key business processes. We help you understand how IT syetms & software can improvde your business. This identifies the business issues, challenges & opportunities for improvement.
When IT systems support business objectives & processes, the business is more likely to achieve its overall vision and goals. This process goes beyond IT as a service and seeks to understand your business strategy, aims and objectives and then make sure your IT systems support these.
Redesigning IT systems then produces solutions that resolve strategic business issues and challenges. This includes designing bespoke applications, using off-the-shelf IT systems or cloud-based solutions that meet your business needs.
We offer a free initial consultation to give you a taste or you might be interested to read our ‘IT Planning & Strategy Guide‘.
IT ROADMAP
IT Roadmap is your on-going plan for IT system development. We translate information from auditing, planning & design to create a working plan for your IT system. This agile process makes the most of your IT investment, promotes on-going development and is a part of every many of our IT Support plans.
T Roadmap is the on-going plan for the development of your IT system and captures the strategic thinking needed to keep developing your IT systems. Every client of Charlton Networks gets the opportunity to develop their IT Roadmap and its included in our IT Support Services.
DATA & IT RISK
Where is your company data stored? Who has access to this data & how secure is this data? Understand your company data & information usage.
Does IT present a risk in your business? What might happen in your specific situation if disaster, cyber-attach or a complete IT failure occur?
- Document your IT Data assets
- Understand who can access your Data
- Generate Risk Scenario
- Analyse your company Risk Profile
- Take a FREE review to get started
PRODUCTIVITY
IT Productivity focuses on how you use your IT systems. Ranging from business process reviews, linking systems and removing manual human processes. Our work often involves extending the life of your current system, by making better use of the systems you already have.
We also help your users improve their adoption of IT, from their processes, training and adoption of key technologies. We cover all bases to help improve your business output and reduce wasted time and costs.
Try our FREE business process review to get started.
IT DIRECTOR
We provide you specialist IT staff on a short-term basis. Suitable for a wide range of assingments & special projects. From consultancy, part-time, short-term full-time or periods. Suitable for any business looking for short-term IT assistance.
Most popular are IT Consultants and IT Director roles, operating at senior levels in your business, when needed most. Our capabilities include;
- IT Director - Board level interim resource
- IT Manager - IT management resource
- IT Project Manager - Project management focused around IT
- IT Consultant - Networks, infrastructure or software - Implementation or Support
Why Use IT Consulting Services?
Improve your Investment in IT
Most companies only realise a fraction of the features & benefits from their current IT systems. Improve efficiency, productivity and return-on-investment.
Help your Staff do MORE
We work with your users to indentify the holes, the gaps and the excessive manual processes in your business. From automation, through to on-line and home working solutions.
Avoid the Risk
Under who, what and where your data is located. Identify risk scenarios, develop your plans to avoid the worst and let us help you build a more resilient business.
Get an Independent View
Test the views of your current provider or in-house IT team. Get an independent view with the help of your with many years of Business IT experience.
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