Information Management Strategy

At Oakton, we can help your business to effectively exploit and manage its information assets in order to achieve the strategic business goals and objectives. Oakton’s Information Management (IM) Strategy and Consulting Services are designed to ensure that you have the best possible guidance for advancing your business through the smart use of business information and the business insights that are hidden within it.

Oakton’s capability to successfully deliver strategies and architectures that result in real business outcomes has been repeatedly demonstrated through many engagements and across a broad range of industry sectors. Our ability to understand the information needs of an organisation, combined with the knowledge of how to deliver and effectively present information will allow you to better leverage new or existing IM investments in a way that delivers tangible business outcomes.

Oakton’s IM Strategy and Consulting Services are an integrated suite of services offerings, each with a specific focus, that provide the foundation and rationale for any proposed improvements or changes to the current IM environment.

• IM Strategy: defines the systems and organisational target that is required for new or existing information management solutions to align with business direction and strategy. This includes envisioning the future state and defining a phased roadmap to get there.
• IM Architecture: provides the framework for the IM solution, defining the solution capability required and how it will be deployed. Technology Frameworks provide the necessary direction to ensure future projects apply the technology consistently and build a coherent IM solution.
• Governance Programs: provide a basis for the organisation processes and changes that are required to manage IM programs and organisations to ensure ongoing IM success.
• Platform Selection: is a measured and balanced approach to stepping through the critical process of choosing your IM technology. Oakton has a well defined method that can help you get to the best answer, as well as technical experts to help understand the IM product landscape and validate vendor claims.
• Health Check: The health check is a short, sharp assessment of the health of an existing IM solution. This may be provided as a one-off, or a periodic health-check of an organisation’s information environment. The health check can range from a review of the high-level strategy, the business benefits being achieved, through to examining the technical solution and support capability.

To ensure future success of an Information Management program, we focus on the balanced view that is mandatory to effectively exploit, manage, implement and support IM solutions and not merely the technology:

• The information that is needed by the business to achieve and track strategic objectives and day-to-day needs;
• The systems and technology that will be used to deliver the information and to provide the insights;
• The governance, processes, organisation units and roles that are required to exploit, implement, manage and support IM solutions;
• The investment that is required and business justification. These will deliver a balanced strategy and an integrated roadmap of activities that are required to achieve the business objectives.