Strategic Review
A strategic review is a report that outlines the prioritisation of short, medium and long term IT requirements and provides an effective method for managing long term support and strategic advice.
A review is performed by our experienced consultancy team and includes both a technical and business analysis. This covers a full health check and benchmark of your current IT infrastructure, which leads to an understanding of how the IT platform is aligned with the current and future strategic goals of your business.
Strategic Review Options
A strategic review is a report that provides direction and focus, outlined through a comprehensive collection of prioritised actions and processes. Our team of consultants deliver 3 different types of Strategic Review to accommodate organisations of all types and sizes.

Essential Strategic Review
Ideal for our small business customers, or as an executive summary report for a large corporate customer
Report includes:
- Highlight key areas of concern and risk
- Exec summary and maturity model summary
- High-level findings and recommendations summary tables
- Project cost schedules and estimated yearly budgets

Transitional Strategic Review
Suited for customers seeking strategic change who are not so interested in current infrastructure detail
Report includes:
- Identifies and allows you to manage or eliminate risks
- Exec summary and maturity model summary
- High level findings and recommendations tables
- Project cost schedules and estimated yearly budgets
- Detailed documented recommendations and transition plans and designs

Full Strategic Review
For customers seeking a full strategic overview of their current IT estate and future roadmap
Report includes:
- Set out a plan to manage your IT infrastructure
- Exec summary and maturity model summary
- High-level findings and recommendations tables
- Project cost schedules and estimated yearly budgets
- Detailed documented findings of all systems and IT processes currently in place
- Detailed documented recommendations and transition plans and designs
Does my business need one?
Ideally, yes. Every business, whatever size, can benefit from a Strategic Review. The Strategic Review can be undertaken in isolation or to underpin a support service, technical engagement or business change.
The review encompasses a full report covering the specific IT needs of the business and is structured to pre-agreed individual requirements; for example we can structure the report to support board/owner decisions IT managers’ requirements or both.
What is a Strategic Review?
A strategic review is a report that provides direction and focus, outlined through a comprehensive collection of prioritised actions and processes.
An achievable roadmap is agreed aimed at meeting specific measurable operational targets, enabling a business to achieve its goals.
We will inquire, analyse and make suggestions to help improve efficiency and solve your problems now and for the future.
5 steps to our review
We recognise that IT is the lifeblood of modern-day business and without it, your organisation may not even be able to operate. A strategic plan provides direction and focus with an achievable roadmap to meeting specific measurable business and operational goals.

Pre Planning
We discuss your IT requirements, your company vision and any challenges you are currently facing.

Information Gathering
Our discovery phase is made up of user interviews and infrastructure auditing which allows us to gain a deeper understanding of the organisations technical and business objectives.

Planning
We will evaluate all of the information gathered to determine the most suitable technology architecture to meet your requirements and objectives in achieving the identified future needs.

Presentation
Your consultant will present the detailed findings and recommendations on the following areas; core technologies architecture design; proposed migration plan; agreed scheduled milestones and identified project priorities and budgetary estimates.

Review Delivery
On acceptance of our results, Taylor Made will produce the finalised documentation that will provide a detailed overview of your current technology in use, High-level technical architecture design summary and a proposed schedule of delivery.
The Journey
As a specialist in IT we will do more than simply fulfil your current requirements, we want to assist you on your IT journey. We identify where you are, where you are going and what IT strategy is needed to achieve your business objectives.
Documented IT strategy aligned to your business
- Highlight key areas of concern and risk
- Understand your current state and future requirements
- Review and highlight any current risks, and how to fix them going forward
- Define what will be required from IT over the next 1-5 years
Strategic management and proactive support
- Identifies and allows you to manage or eliminate risks
- Secure your valuable business data
- Protect your company against Cybercrime
- Ensure you can recover from a minor or major disaster event
Tailored strategic recommendations
- Set out a plan to manage your IT infrastructure
- Ensure IT remains fit for purpose and resilient
- Provide users with stable and consistent access to Business Applications
- Outline an achievable schedule of projects to meet the business plan
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