Services · Analysis and current-state assessment
You can’t improve what you don’t understand.
The first step: a clear picture of where you are today – and a concrete basis for prioritisation, not a report that ends up in a drawer.
Timeframe
2–4 weeks
Rough estimate – I adjust it after our first meeting.
Your time
Usually 2–4 hours in total
Independent
No ties to your suppliers
The problem
Where do you stand – really?
Most IT environments in small and medium-sized companies have grown organically – a system here, a supplier there, in-house tools somewhere else and overlapping functions. It works. But there is rarely a complete overview.
An independent analysis answers the questions nobody internally has time to ask: Which systems are truly business-critical? Where are the security gaps? What do the supplier contracts actually say? Which in-house solutions are an asset – and which are a liability?
It is rarely about lack of knowledge or carelessness. It is about day-to-day work taking over, and nobody having been given the task of seeing the whole picture. That is exactly the task I take on.
Examples
What it can look like.
80 licences, 20 users
A company pays for 80 licences, but barely 20 people actively use the tool. Nobody has cancelled it, because nobody knows who ordered it.
Old admin accounts
A company believes it has security under control, but has old admin users still active from a consulting assignment 3 years ago – an open door nobody has noticed.
The system nobody can maintain
An in-house system built 10 years ago, still in operation and still critical – but no internal expertise remains to maintain it.
3 suppliers, no accountability
3 different suppliers handle “support”, none of them has full responsibility, and when something goes wrong they all point at each other.
What is included?
This is what I review.
Strategy
Is IT aligned with your business goals? Are technical decisions made reactively, or is there a clear direction – and what does it cost you when there isn’t?
Assets
Does IT deliver on time, budget and quality? Do your systems enable growth, or are they holding you back without you noticing?
Environment
Security, governance and project management: exposure, access control, backup routines and supplier dependencies.
What you get
You get a concise, written report with prioritised recommendations. Then we go through it together and decide what you want to do next – and in which order.
How it works
Timeframe: 2–4 weeks
Rough estimate – I adjust it after our first meeting.
Week 1
Interviews and data collection. Initial meetings with management and key people; contracts, system overviews and cost data are collected. You don’t need to prepare anything.
Weeks 2–3
Analysis and prioritisation. Review of the material, conversations with selected suppliers and prioritisation based on what has the greatest effect for you – not what is most technically interesting.
Week 4
Presentation and next steps.
What do I need from you?
- A non-disclosure agreement (NDA), signed before anything starts.
- Access to relevant people – short conversations, on your initiative and with your approval.
- Openness about the current situation – documents, contracts, system overviews and, ideally, your own thoughts on what isn’t working.
Next step
Want to see the whole picture?
Guarantee: if I don’t add value, you get your money back. I don’t sell hours.