Business and Technology Consulting. IT Governance & Management

To solve the problem is Identifying real problem

  • Strategy & Enterprise Performance Management
  • PMO Advisory (Portfolio, Program & Project Management)
  • Market Research
  • Feasibility Study Supply Chain Optimization

  • Digital Transformation
  • System Selection (Standard ERPs with Best of Breed Solutions)
  • IT Governance & Management Technologies

  • Information Security (ISO 27001, Cybersecurity, VAPT)
  • IT Governance , ITSM & DevOps
  • IT PMO (Waterfall , Agile, ERP Specific Methodologies, Tailored Methodologies)

Strategy & Enterprise Performance

Market Research

  • Cultural Analysis and Semiotics
  • Trends and Consumer Pulse
  • Market Report
  • Immersion Sessions
  • Vox Pops Videos
  • Advertising Evaluation
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Tracking Marketing Profiling
  • Market Sizing & Entering
  • Modelling
  • Customized
  • Usability Testing
  • Online Communities
  • Moderations
  • Focus Groups
  • In-Depth Interviews
  • Fuel the Future
  • Road Map to Digitalization
  • Consumer Journey Ethno
  • Usability
  • Digital Strategy

Feasibility Study

Transforming a good idea into a valid business case is far from simple. A unique company setup allows us to conduct comprehensive feasibility studies that provide the necessary reality check of your project and help you prioritize. 

  • Technical Feasibility 
  • Economic Feasibility 
  • Legal Feasibility 
  • Operational Feasibility 
  • Scheduling Feasibility 

Enterprise PMO Advisory (EPMO)

  • Establish synergies between Strategy & Enterprise PMO
  • Establishing Enterprise PMO  Governance Structure
  • Define Right Methods, Templates & Tools
  • Define Dashboards & Reporting framework (KPIs, Scorecards etc.)
  • Assessment of People,  Process & Technology 
  • Define targets of improvements 
  • Define Programs for improving your EPMO
  • Induct EPMO Experts & SMEs on critical programs
  • Work with strategy to rationalize & align Portfolios, Programs & Projects
  • Define clear roles with ownerships & accountabilities 
  • Select relevant technology platforms 
  • Staff your EPMO
  • Follow Organizational Change Management practices 
  • Create EPMO Communities 
  • Conduct regular awareness & trainings
  • Keep reviewing business case for EPMO

Supply Chain Optimization

Change Management

Digital Transformation

  • IT Diagnostics (People, Process & Technology)
  • Digital Transformation Gap Assessment
  • IT Strategy & Governance Framework
  • Enterprise Architecture & IT Services Roadmap
  • Business Case & Benefit realization roadmap
  • System Evaluation & Selection 
  • System Integrator Evaluation & Selection
  • PMO for IT Projects Portfolio
  • IT Services Value & Risk Assessment
  • IT Service Management Processes Maturity 
  • Virtual CIO Office Support Services
  • Tailored Specialized Services

ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning

  • Systems are evaluated and by the time you reach implementation stage requirements get changed in longer duration programs.
  • Careful planning and Value based roadmap analysis needs to be done for best timing for evaluation of systems.
  • Technology changes lead to forcing companies to seek more funding for upgrades causing extra pressure on PMO
  • Best of Breed Applications or specialized solutions are needed to fulfill seemingly simple requirements during evaluating phase
  • End to end planning & selection roadmap
  • Validation of your system decisions
  • Gaining better commercials terms
  • System Integrator implementation contracts
  • PMO for implementation
  • Standard ERP or Best of Breed Solution?
  • Customizable vs Standardized?
  • Single Vendor or Multiple Vendors?
  • Cloud (SaaS / PaaS) or On Premise?
  • Stop gap or long term?

SMAC Consulting

  • Social platforms traditionally seen only for consumers have made big way into everyday business.
  • We can define framework to leverage social platforms for enhancing your business performance.
  • Businesses have transformed boundaries of physical space and live mostly in virtual worlds.
  • Mobility has become key to interact with your Customers, Suppliers and employees.
  • Technologies of today can help you unearth the patters which were not possible in earlier decades.
  • We can help your organization gain competitive advantage by using analytics technologies to transform way you take decisions.
  • Leverage key capabilities of cloud based solutions to solve your every day problems.
  • We help you chose most relevant Cloud technologies aligned to your strategic roadmap.

IT Governance, ITMS & DevOps

Project / Program Planning & MNGT, Service Development, Service Validation & Testing

Capacity  & Performance MNGT, Information Security MNGT, Supplier Management

Availability & Continuity Management, Service Level Management

Service Events & Incident MNGT, Service Requests & Access MNGT, Problem MNGT

Service Reporting & Service Improvement Processes

Service/ Outcomes  Requirements

  • Framework needs to be tailored to deal with organization specific maturity.
  • Target maturity for each of these processes need to be planned based on risks and challenges of given business.
  • DevOps practices need to be embedded in overarching IT Governance framework.
  • We can assist CIOs to achieve their vision of IT Governance.
  • Every CIO would love to have this streamlined for his organization  before embarking on any major TechTransformation Program.

Information Security

Security controls can be costly and time consuming, prioritize properly.

You need to define primary controls and compensating controls. Chose between Corrective, Preventative & Predictive controls

Analyze and improve on the weakness to continually improve information security

Regularly conduct audits and Vulnerability Assessment & Security testing

Every asset needs different level of protection depending on impact of it is compromised.

PMO For IT Products Portfolio

We can assist you to establish your IT PMO on planning and implementing various complex Enterprise and IT PMO Structures and methodologies and ensure strategic alignment between your Enterprise PMO & IT PMO.

We can operate it by providing you skillful & experienced resources for your complex IT Programs & Projects.

We will handover complete framework , methodologies and tools along with knowledge transfer so your team can handle future projects on their own.

Industry Verticals

  • 20+ ERP & Best of Breed software selected 
  • More than USD 30 million saved on TCO of technology spend
  • More than USD 100+ Million saved by  supply chain optimization 
  • 100 + Large & Complex Programs handled by our consultants
  • Ayyan Group of Companies, Pakistan
  • HSBC GLT, Pune, India
  • Atos Worldline Mumbai
  • Tamweel Aloula , KSA
  • Mirchandani Group, India
  • Abdullah Contracting , KSA
  • Consumer Electronics , Saudi Arabia
  • Rawabi Safety , KSA
  • Abdullah Hashim Gases AHG , KSA
  • Abdullah AlFaris Group of Industries, KSA
  • Disney Consumer Products, USA