Information Technology (IT) Consulting

ReSearch on IT Consulting

Business Enterprises for IT Consulting

• The Big 4: PWC(London), KPMG (Netherlands), Deloitte (NY), Ernst & Young (NY)
• Singapore
• Asia
  • India: Tata Consultancy Services
  • Japan: NTT Data
  • China: Pactera, Neusoft Group
• Europe
  • Ireland: Accenture
  • France: Capgemini
  • Germany: T-Systems
• North America
  • US:
    • Cognizant Technology Solutions
    • IBM Global Business Services
    • HP Enterprise Services
  • Canada
    • CGI Group

Reference

• List of IT Consulting Firms - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IT_consulting_firms

Concepts on Information Technology Consulting

What is Information Technology Consulting?

• Advisory: Advise organisations on how best to use Information Technology (IT) in achieving business objectives
• Outsource: Estimate, Manage, Implement, Deploy and Administer IT systems for client

When are IT consultants required?

• To gain external, objective advice and recommendations
• To gain Access to consultants' Specialised expertise
• Temporary help during a one-time project
• Outsource part or all of IT services

How IT Consulting is Done

• 4 Tier System of the IT Consulting Industry
  • Professional Services: Firms that have large professional workforce
  • Staffing Firms: Engage and place technologists within their organisations on a temporary basis (usually due to employee absences, temproary skill shortage and technically challenging Projects)
  • Independent Consultants: Self-employed and function as independent contractors
  • Information technology Security Consultants
• 3 Step Approach
  • Project Scoping and Planning
  • Business Process and System Design
    • Documentation of buisness process and system requirements are fundamental for costing
  • Project Management Support

Skills of an IT Consultant

• Advisory Skills
• Technical Skills
• Business Skills
• Management Skills
• Communication Skills
• Language Skills
  • Advisory language Skills
  • Business and Management Language Skills
  • Technical language Skills

How IT Consulting fees are like

• Method 1: Per day per consultant
• Method 2: Fixed fee IT Consulting (When projects are well defined, with specific amount of work with defined timeframe)
  • Infrastructure refreshment projects
  • Network Design
  • Implementation of Specific well described features e.g. monitoring platforms
  • Infrastructure capacity planning

Reference

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology_consulting