Executive Business Assessment

(An important management exercise for the small / mid sized Company)

What is a Business Assessment?

Business assessments identify true business value for implementing new technology solutions. The business assessment is used to develop an IT roadmap for the business to utilize the proper I.T. their business needs to be more competitive in the marketplace.

Business assessments focus on identifying key business needs and drivers and strategic IT directions. This in turn allows us to successfully identify the justification for immediate and future projects. It also can highlight technologies that do not have a business justification and therefore should be bypassed. We believe that it is important that each project identified should map back to key business initiatives.

How is an assessment performed?

This process is not technical but business oriented. To be successful we must:

Work with the Business decision maker and to interview with appropriate personnel (VP of Sales, VP of Marketing, CFO, etc.) at the company. In smaller companies, this is frequently the key decision maker and possibly one other individual.

We go through a needs analysis questionnaire that will encourage prepare the audience to think about technology in terms of providing value to enable a People-Ready business.

The outcome of the business assessment is to analyze information and create a plan that aligns key business needs and drivers with appropriate technology solutions that can enable business success.

What do I receive from an assessment?

After going through the process, you will know what technologies that you are using well, what if any technologies could improve your business and have a positive return on your investment. You will have an understanding of some technologies that you should avoid because they are not cost effective for you, or they are becoming obsolete when compared to other more productive and cost effective ways of doing business.

Business assessments can stand by themselves but are more powerful when they are combined with IT assessments. IT assessments are more technical, and provide more specific details to the overall IT roadmap. A goal would be to perform a combined business and IT assessment that creates the complete vision of how technology will support business objectives.

Why should I have an assessment?

If you haven't reviewed your current practices to insure compliance with government and legal requirements, then you need to go through the assessment process.

If you think I.T. and computer technology is an necessary evil, or a tool to use for a competitive advantage. Whether you consider I.T. a cost or a source of profits, then an assessment will help you identify where your company stands.

Why Use I.T. Results to do an assessment?

Your assessment will be done by a seasoned individual with over 30 years experience in business technology. He has a career that spans several industries, companies ranging from fortune 100 to the very small. The past 10 years has been with small and mid sized businesses (SMB) from an I.T. perspective, these are companies with 10 to 100 PC, and 1 to 5 locations. The Microsoft small business specialist certification is for technical companies supporting business of this size.

While companies can achieve this designation with only one person passing the exams at each physical location of the company, your I.T. Results assessment will be performed by a person who has passed all of the exams personally, and has extensive business experience as well as technical experience.

What does an assessment cost?

Periodic assessments and reviews are performed for our customers as part of the normal support services and do not have a separate price. However, based on the time it takes to collect the information, evaluate and prepare reports, the typical assessment has a value of $500 - $800 based on time and billing rates.

When coupled with other promotions, new customers actually be paid for doing the assessment.

First, we charge only $95 for the assessment.

No catches, no obligations on your part. You own the report and can use it however you see fit.

Second, we offer a discount of $200 that can be applied to the first $200 of charges for services from I.T. Results that are used to implement or remediate anything identified or suggested in the assessment.

Third, mention this webpage and we will ad an additional $95 to the discount, raising it to $295.