Businesses rely on their IT service providers to deliver essential products or services. The pressure in a highly competitive market leads them to be focused on becoming operationally excellent. Their operational drive to make a profit leaves little time allocated to understanding your business strategy and better aligning the services it provides. A typical business will have IT suppliers that cover key business applications, managed services and software development. Each supplier carries its own agenda and suppliers who deal directly with department heads are not best placed to understand your overall businesses IT Strategy. Often the result is that your IT systems work and develop independently. If your business struggles to understand how IT can deliver to their business, the gap between technology and business becomes even wider and your business will fall behind its competitors.As businesses and their IT suppliers struggle to align with each other the typical result is unexpected costs. Companies without internal IT resource rely heavily on their suppliers but have to trust the supplier explicitly not to take advantage and overcharge for their services.Prescotts provide an independent service link to better manage your 3rd party IT suppliers. By using qualified expert consultants who have worked in the IT service industry for more than 10 years, we help businesses align their key IT services and applications to their business strategy. We provide expertise to help you if you haven't devised your IT strategy. We then bridge the gap between technology and business departments ensuring your business interests come first.From an initial chat with whoever is responsible for IT, there are usually some quick wins that can be made throughout your business. Prescotts will design and implement the most cost effective solutions or improve existing ones. With the first initial free consultation we will immediately be able to identify whether we can add value to your business with no obligation to take our services. Prescotts ensure you get the very best value and service from your IT suppliers. We ensure the services you receive are tailored to your business needs. If you alreay have an employed IT team, we make sure you are getting the best quality and performance from them. This is done by ensuring they are following IT best practice procedures and use the most cost efficient management technology in order to reduce operational costs. If they are not; our service will implement them. We also ensure internal it staff understand your business strategy and help them align their IT strategy to match.We understand the technology that is available and how it could work for your business. By understanding the IT services market we negotiate better deals for you ensuring the SLA's and project specifications are appropriate for your business. We then ensure they are properly delivered on an ongoing basis or throughout the project lifecycle.
