IT Advisory & Delivery
TOPIC improves your business performance through delivery of added-value initiatives & continuous advisory and by providing strong and valuable IT & Business sourcing servicesStrategic studies and business cases
Advisory
- How to leverage IT to move the business forward.
- Identify and define the optimal IT & business solution.
- Evaluate IT investments to improve business value.
- Define right-sourcing strategy and align all involved stakeholders.
Delivery
- Business requirements, quality assurance and risk mitigation plan.
- Elaboration of a sound business case enabling go / no go decision.
- Plan and build-up of a pragmatic and efficient program/project approach.
- Guaranty of a solid program/project start.
Program and project management
Advisory
- Program governance, organisation & set-up.
- Projects prioritization and portfolio management framework.
- Set-up and running of a project management office (PMO).
- Change management and communication plan.
Delivery
- Complex changes in your organizational and technical landscape.
- Management of transformation programmes, including integration of package solutions.
- End to end responsibility of project across complete lifecycle.
- Program and project management training.
Test management and strategy
Advisory
- Set-up of testing framework. Definition and implementation of testing methodologies.
- Design and implementation of test centers of excellence.
- Application testing assessment and strategy.
- Functional and non functional test phases organisation.
Delivery
- Risk based test approach definition.
- Identification of quality assurance activities in each project phase.
- Test automation and non-regression testing optimization.
- Management of test preparation and test execution activities.
Operational readiness
Advisory
- Align IT services with the business needs.
- Design and set-up optimal ITIL services.
- Set-up of a transparent reporting of IT performance (KPIs) to business stakeholders.
- Define an Operational acceptance framework and governance.
Delivery
- Release and project deployment strategy.
- Appropriate set-up of monitoring, working instructions, back-up and recovery procedures.
- Project transition and knowledge transfer to operational teams.
- Alignment of projects and application quality with pre-defined SLA.