1- 5 year Information Technology business plans

“Business 101” emphasizes the vital importance of creating a business plan.  Equally important is your  Information Technology Business Plan, ensuring all the tools, reporting, etc. are in place, and on time, to execute your company’s overall business plan.

Annual Information Technology budget preparation

Are your Information Technology Budget numbers “guesstimates”?  Do you always exceed your Information Technology Budget numbers? 

Markor can prepare accurate, realistic numbers to put in your budget.

New project research, evaluation, and determine ROI

Does your Information Technology manager or staff keep saying “We need to do this project or purchase this equipment"?  Do you keep replying with “What is the best technical solution to this problem based on our budget?  What is our most practical solution?  What vendor can we trust?  What are the pros and cons?  Markor can provide answers to all your questions.

Application evaluation (Buy vs. Develop)

Are you considering whether to develop in-house or buy an application to resolve a functional need? 

Markor can give you all the data to make the decision an easy and effective one.

Computer SW/HW standardization and requirement preparation

It is vital to standardize PC configurations to eliminate PC downtimes, extra $’s for maintenance, security issues, etc.

Process analysis

Do you need help visualizing key functions in your company (i.e. inventory, order entry, accounting, customer complaints, sales, etc.)? 

Markor can provide you with complete details; how long it takes, the steps along the way, total function cost, individual step cost, resources used, automated and/or manual process, etc. We can document current and future processes to determine efficiencies.

 

Intermediary/Negotiator for software purchases and maintenance agreements

It’s important to have industry knowledge before signing any agreements.

Markor can provide this knowledge, assuring your purchases and agreements are in your company’s best interest

Information Technology Resource analysis (current or “to hire”)

Need to determine expertise needed for a certain position?  What should the salary/wage be?  Should you hire an employee or independent contractor?  How do you evaluate technical candidates?

Markor’s expertise in the field will provide you with the information and the knowledge to fill your personnel needs and requirements.

Eliminate manual data entry and reporting

Is top management spending time each week/month to prepare financial and/or statistical reporting for vendors, clients, or for vital business decisions?. 

Markor can automate your data by gathering from spreadsheets, accounting systems, vendor reporting, etc. and automatically generate the reports for you.  This is critical to the success of a small/medium size business.  These are typically small projects (less than a week) which have an immediate ROI.  By this time next week you could no longer have the mundane task of creating your reports

 

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