Latest Advisories

Musings from our experts regarding IT strategy, governance, innovation and best practice
Sep 29 2014
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Are you getting value from your IT spend?

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No matter if your view of IT is as a cost centre or a potential strategic advantage, ensuring that you are receiving good value in your IT spend is critical. Reducing cost and improving service delivery through effective IT management and improved business alignment are key outcomes from undertaking an Independent IT review and health check.

  • We will assess your internal IT service delivery or external IT service provider to consider if improved services or technology architectures could provide efficiency or capability improvements.
  • We will review your technology roadmap, consider technology failure scenarios and insure that appropriate steps have been taken to mitigate those risks that are a real danger to the organisations wellbeing.
  • We will assess your business requirements, consider best practice, new technology architectures and service delivery models and provide actionable advice on how to improve your IT service levels and reduce cost.

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Dec 01 2013
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Top 10 for 2014 and BEYOND

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I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas on behalf of the entire Beyond Technology team. Thank you for your continued support and I hope that the challenges ahead in 2014 bring you success and exciting opportunities. In thinking of the year ahead, I thought that I would share with you what the BTC Team has identified as the key trends and challenges that we feel our clients will be facing next year. As independent IT management consultants, we not only see a variety of different industries suffering the same issues, but it’s our job to help you identify and form the solutions. Read More

Dec 01 2012
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Top 10 for 2013 and BEYOND

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I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas on behalf of the entire Beyond Technology team.

Beyond Technology has again had its best ever year. Thank you for your continued support and hope that 2013 is looking exciting and productive.

In thinking of the year ahead, I thought that I would share with you what the BTC Team has identified as the key trends and challenges that we feel our clients will be facing next year. Read More

Dec 14 2011
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What does 4G mobility mean for me and my corporate fleet?

By | Mobility, Predictions | No Comments

With all three major carriers talking about their launch of 4G mobility, many business leaders are asking what impact this next generation of wireless technology will have on their business, while others are questioning the ability of the carriers to deliver on the promise of the technology.

Will the promised speed of 4G mobility (LTE) be delivered by the carriers?

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Dec 01 2011
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Top 10 for 2012 and BEYOND

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Given the increasingly complex IT environment facing organisations, we anticipate that 2012 will see even more operational cost pressures being placed on IT departments. Governance will focus on disaster recovery, preparing for security events rather than assuming they can be avoided. Advancements in 4G mobile technologies will see even more mobile users, with a focus on BYOD strategy over the corporate desktop.

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May 12 2011
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2011 Floods and IT Disaster Recovery Planning

By | Disaster Recovery | No Comments

Beyond Technology Consulting has already made a substantial donation to the victims of the disastrous Queensland floods, however the concern about the lessons learnt from the disaster remain. We are already hearing about Queensland business’s facing ruin, not due to the direct loss, but due to their inability to recovery core systems in a timely manner. Many organisations are only finding out now that their backup system has been ineffective, their recovery process is reliant on a staff member that can’t get to work or their 3rd party service provider has proactively entered receivership. Read More

Jan 18 2011
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Can the Virgin Blues happen to you?

By | Value Realisation | No Comments

Executives across the country could feel the hair on the back of their necks stand on end over the weekend on hearing the complete financial, PR, operational and reputational disaster that besieged Virgin Blue after a catastrophic IT failure. While the press was interviewing distraught travellers across the country that were asking “Why didn’t they have a backup”, the dirty secret across many Australian organisations is that their IT recovery plans are either inadequate, or reliant on 3rdparty providers whom they do not have the skills to audit. Read More

Dec 01 2010
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Top 10 for 2011 and BEYOND

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I would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas on behalf of the entire Beyond Technology team.

I thank you for your support this year and hope that 2011 is looking bright and productive. In thinking of the year ahead, I thought that I would share with you what the BTC Team has identified as the key trends and challenges that we feel our clients will be facing next year. Read More

Jul 30 2009
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Technology Operations Efficiency Improvement

By | Whitepapers | No Comments
Abstract

Efficiency in operation requires IT to constantly evolve, delivering high quality services meeting today’s requirements and to develop new capabilities and architectures to continue efficient and business aligned delivery into the future.

This whitepaper outlines a methodology for IT managers to develop a roadmap for improving operational efficiency. The methodology has three key aspects: Read More