IT Strategic Management / CIO Support

With the dependence on technology today and the criticality of retaining your competitive edge, who can afford to leave the success of their information and technology initiatives to chance? In the Knowledge Age, effectively managing your IT resources is critical to achieving the competitive advantage.

ISKA helps you lay out the way ahead for structuring your IT initiatives to achieve the optimal effect on your critical business objectives and designing a cohesive information systems modernization plan which supports your bottom line.

The ISKA team is led by a certified CIO experienced in planning and implementing the full range of business / IT alignment programs and federal Clinger-Cohen Act requirements at the enterprise level. ISKA can analyze your current information resources management posture, design a strategy and implementation plan, and execute the necessary pieces to assure your IT Strategic Management / CIO success. Our offerings include:

• Strategic Planning...must be more than a report that gathers dust on the shelf. We help you establish effective strategic planning as a living, continually renewable process that empowers you to achieve your goals and is integral to the overall success of the organization.
• Governance   So many things compete for your finite capacity of money, time and effort. We help you establish a strong governance process to make sure your critical resources are devoted to the initiatives that are important to your organization’s success.
• Information Assurance (IA) Programs   We believe that IA is more than the tools securing your network…it is a program, a process, a mindset incorporating policy, process, training, leadership, and performance.
• Enterprise Architecture (EA) Programs   We help you develop a good EA framework to define your current and future business operations and the systems that support them to make sure they are sustainable, effective, and cost efficient.
• Portfolio Management (PfM)   We help you design an on-going process to review your systems, define objective capabilities, determine migration strategies, and evaluate performance to help you make better investment decisions.
• IT Project Management   We help you assure successful project execution by establishing and implementing a solid management foundation and integrating proven standards like Earned Value Management System (EVMS).
• IT Systems Development, Management and Operation   We help you design and operate IT systems that are customer/user-focused and achieve maximum information integration and exchange to provide the knowledge you need to make effective decisions.
• Systems Review and Analysis   We can provide that independent set of eyes to take a fresh look at your system and make recommendations for improvements