Buzzard IT Consulting

How can an IT strategy benefit your business?

Ensuring your have the ‘right IT’ now and for the future, will maximise any investment made in technology to support your business. It also reduces the risk of having to replace equipment or systems as you grow.

However, first, you need an IT strategy that is aligned to the business strategy.

Do your IT suppliers provide good value?

To get value for money from a supplier, you need a clear definition of what you require from a product or service and insight into the cost competitiveness.

If you have not changed supplier for over a year, the chances are the market has moved on and you could get a better deal...

Do IT projects ever come in on time & budget?

The simple answer is yes! There are plenty of examples where this has happened, but you normally only hear about the failures.

To minimise the risk of failure, there are a number of elements that have to be in place, before you start...

Is your critical business information protected?

Information is a critical asset to your business, but all too often it doesn’t get the protection it deserves. Information security is about more than taking a daily backup

The good news is there are a number of best practices defined to help give the assurance it is being managed effectively...

IT consulting and planning for strategy, projects and information security

Buzzard IT Consulting is an independent service, delivering IT strategy and project management capabilities to small businesses that could not normally afford this as a permanent role. We can also work with IT teams of companies that are over stretched at peak times, to help them continue to give a quality service.

Focus on – cloud computing

What is all the fuss about? You can not escape this current IT term being discussed in every magazine today, predicted to revolutionise small business IT for ever. Unfortunately it is not an IT strategy that replaces everything you have overnight. In fact it is not really an IT strategy at all.

In Words

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.

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What can go wrong?

Having come through an incident free holiday period, no better than that, a really go Christmas break, I couldn't help but reflex on the troubles of the previous Christmas.