Craft Way Consulting
Craft Way Consulting is an independent IT
consultancy specialising in helping businesses get more from their
investment in Information Technology by turning IT Solutions into
Business Solutions.
Back in
the 90's IT Managers were typically generalists who looked after the hardware and
operating environment much as they do today but they were also very involved in the application
side even to the point of being developers. Nowadays with IT becoming so complex IT Managers have had to
become technical specialists and even if they had time, which is
unlikely, they tend not to get involved in the application side so whose
doing this work, is anyone? There is very little point in having a fast,
powerful, secure and typically expensive IT solution if the business is
not getting real business benefits from the investment.
Craft Way
Consulting's typical client has between 50 and 1000 employees, an expensive IT
environment but typically disgruntled and/or disappointed business managers who
want and expect something better. Most IT Managers would tell you their job and
budget is for the technical side of IT so they can have high levels of uptime,
no viruses, a secure environment, etc but actually their job and budget should
be to design, implement and maintain a fully integrated business solution and
that is very much more than just technology.
The business
solution does need a good IT solution under-pinning it but it doesn't have to be
the best solution it needs to be an appropriate one, one that is robust but not
one that uses up all the budget. The rest of the business solution centres
around your core database; having good data; understanding and integrating your
applications; procedures and working practices; and trained staff who know how
to take advantage and utilise the tools you make available to them. Many, if not
most businesses do not have the skills and most importantly the experience
in-house to do the rest so do you use your existing suppliers, employ mainstream
consultants or what?
In the current
economic climate you will not have a lot of spare cash so you have to make sure
every penny counts so if you do want to upgrade to a business solution you do
need to get access to people who can cut to the chase and that requires
experience more specifically experience of your size of business.
Craft Way Consulting offers a broad range
of skills and many years of experience of developing practical and cost
effective IT related business solutions. We look to form
long-term relationship with our clients and to be available as and when
needed whether this is to provide help and advice; turn data into
information; to develop an IT strategy; or whatever, Craft Way
Consulting will try to help.
Prices are very competitive and reflect a
policy of you paying only for what you use.
Craft Way Consulting has a proven track
record of helping and advising firms of accountants but the
services would be appropriate to any business which would benefit from
access to our skills and experience.
If you are a provider of IT or related
services you may want to consider working in
collaboration with Craft
Way Consulting. If you feel there are complementary services that we
could offer together and as a result provide clients with a more
comprehensive solution you should make contact.
Craft Way
Consulting is a member of The
Freelance Experience.
