Brief survival course for the crisis times

De Novo expert recommendations

The leading IT market experts suppose that unreasonable IT budget saving may cause considerable problems to the company, whereas wise IT infrastructure investments can markedly enhance company’s chances to survive through the difficult times. Basing on their ample experience, innovative technologies and own developments, De Novo analysts can provide recommendations enabling large Ukrainian enterprises to successfully cope with the difficulties of the crisis times.

Step 1: What do we have?

Draw up inventory of the existing technical and organizational IT assets:

What are the aggregate resources of the existing hardware and software?
What is the IT systems depreciation dynamics and how much does it cost to maintain the existing resources in operable condition?
What is the structure of the IT-service business processes and what human resources does this service possess?
What IT projects are planned or actively being implemented at present?

Evaluate security level of vital data, means of accessing these data and IT safety systems.

Step 2: How do we use it?

Estimate the scope and pattern of utilization relating to the existing assets (utilization factor);
Explore the optimization potential for each group of resources (opportunities for more efficient use of assets).

Step 3: What should be done?

Develop the map of IT projects aimed at utilization of the existing optimization potential (release of the existing resources that have not been used until now);
Set priorities for the selected IT projects applying financial metrics of the projects cost-performance in addition to their technological aspects;
Initiate the realization of the generated IT project portfolio.

Anti-crisis measures from De Novo experts

In a typical case, the most investment attractive (IRR ~ 40-120% in a 3–5-year period) are the following projects:

Consolidation and virtualization of computing (server) infrastructure;
Centralization of computations and virtualization of workplaces;
Creation of centralized data backup system (including the development of Failure Recovery Plan);
Program infrastructure optimization;
Project office creation – establishment of effective environment for implementation of internal evolution projects: building of the major OAS business processes, introducing regulations and control metrics, project management and team work automation, personnel training.

To learn more about the anti-crisis package features, please view the web-seminar held by Gennady Karpov, our Director on Technologies, or send your contact information to anticrysis@de-novo.biz and our experts will contact you shortly (within an hour during business days).