ICT- INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

Integrating technology into your business is a key enabler to gaining a competitive advantage. With business and IT functions sometimes speaking different languages or working toward different goals, successful integration can be an expensive and challenging endeavor. Kubiz bridges the gap between business and technology—aligning the two to ensure ICT facilitates the successful implementation of your business strategy.

We are seeing several fundamental drivers of disruption, and therefore opportunity, in the broad technology markets. As the cost of processing and storage rapidly decrease and as companies continue to make improvements in miniaturization and integration, the cost of starting revolutionary IT innovations has decreased dramatically.
Kubiz is focused on areas that can capitalize on these changes:

– Mobility:
The next generation of devices, operating systems and business models has greatly disrupted the traditional value chain.

– Cloud Computing:
Delivering applications in a high-availability, device-agnostic and location-agnostic manner, with substantially lower total cost of ownership.

– Digital Media:
Video entertainment migrating from relatively few scheduled broadcast/cable TV channels to an enormous on-demand body of content accessible anywhere.

– Big Data:
The generation and storage of digital data continues unabated. The management and analysis of these data will be transformative in numerous markets.

A good IT strategy brings energy, clarity and alignment to an IT Function, enabling a superior contribution to the wider business. However, the IT strategy definition process can be challenging. For example, the wider business strategy may be in flux or there may be conflicting views on key issues such as levels of IT spend and outsourcing.

 

The Kubiz approach to ICT Strategy differs from that of other consulting firms. Kubiz differentiating features are:

– Experienced consultants
Kubiz consultants typically have between 7 and 25 years’ experience – consultants who “hit the ground running” and start to add value very quickly, and who can
provide valuable insight and judgement based on experience elsewhere, rather than simply following a cookbook approach.

– Combining strategy and delivery skills

  •            It is widely recognised that most IT strategies fail not through design but through execution. Kubiz consultants bring a strong combination of both IT strategy and
  •           delivery skills – Kubiz’s philosophy is that the two should not be divorced. So Kubiz consultants will help challenge and validate client thinking, such that not only is the
  •           strategy based on robust commercial assumptions but that it is practical to deliver. Ivory-tower approaches and overly academic solutions are not Kubiz hallmarks nor
  •           do we believe in creating statues of information technology.
  •         – Not overwhelming with large teams
  •            Typically Kubiz provides just one or two consultants to work as part of the client team in developing the IT strategy, guiding the client through the process through the
  •            provision of structure, challenge and insight. In this way, ownership of the thinking and control of the process remains clearly with the client – they do not feel that the
  •            strategy is being ‘done to them’, but that they are developing it for themselves.
  • – Independence – Kubiz have no associations or alliances with any organisations. We don’t offer any IT outsourcing, Systems Integration or Software Development
  •           services. You can be sure that the only agenda we have is the client’s agenda, unencumbered by any consideration other than acting in the client’s best interests.
  • – Quality – At the heart of what Kubiz does, quality starts by recruiting the best people through stringent recruitment processes. Kubiz then build quality in through the way
  •            they work and through their internal assurance and support processes. Kubiz’s exceptional reputation for the quality of its work.

Kubiz designs en integrates (ICT) solutions, develops innovate new business process models en transforms the operational and technical enviroment of it’s clients. These Business to ICT integration services primarily focus on procesarchitecture, proces and ict integration and ict infrastructure. Technology services and consulting services seamlessly integrates at the moment that the upgrade (enhancement) and transformation of IT systems are directly linked to the strategic and tactical priorities and goals and processes of it;s clients.

In summary, Kubiz makes the best possible use of the client organisation’s own people and their knowledge, building energy and enthusiasm through the strategy formulation process. And Kubiz consultants also have experience of delivering the business change that frequently follows a strategy review, so they will help to ensure the strategy has execution and delivery considerations “built in” meaning that once the strategy is approved, execution and implementation swiftly follows.

  • Can Kubiz Help?
  • Are you about to embark on an (ICT) strategy, strategy definition? Are you re-shaping an ICT function in response to a change in business strategy or context? Or is your ICT function under pressure to outsource but the rationale for outsourcing seems confused? Or have you formulated your killer strategy but you cannot get your organisation to real delivery, execution and implementation? If so, Kubiiz may be able to help. If you would like to talk through the challenges you face and how to turn them into opportunities and rewards, you can contact Kubiz at info@kubiz.nl or simply contact us here.