IT Strategy Consulting

A business about to spend $20,000 on systems usually asks the vendor selling them whether they are the right systems. This is the other conversation, with somebody who is not selling you the answer.

Billed by the hour, deliberately. Most of these questions are answered in one or two, and a packaged retainer would charge you for a month of them.

What it costs

$200 per hour Billed by the hour, in whole hours, with what was covered written down afterwards. If the answer takes one hour you pay for one hour.

Who this is for

• A business choosing between two systems where the salespeople disagree and both are paid on the outcome.
• A business that has inherited whatever the last person set up and wants to know what is safe to change.
• A business planning to grow and unsure what breaks first when it does.

Who this is not for

You want somebody to run your IT

This is advice, not operation. If you want somebody on call for the machines, that is Office IT Maintenance and it is priced by the hour too, at less than this.

The question is one specific process

Then Business Automation Consulting is $750 fixed and gives you a written report on it. This is the wrong shape for a single process and probably the more expensive way to ask.

You want the advice to end in our invoice

Sometimes it will not. If the right answer is a product we do not sell or a provider that is not us, that is the answer you will get.

Worth having alongside

• Security AuditStrategy assumes you know what you have. An audit is how that assumption gets checked.›
• Network AssessmentIf the complaint is that things are slow or drop, that is measurable before it is strategic.›
• Cloud Migration PlanningWhen the decision is specifically whether and how to move, that has its own fixed price.›