Advisory Services

Lab7X Business & IT Consulting

LAB7X provides a range of professional IT services, including strategic consultancy, project management solutions, and enterprise technology solutions to help businesses achieve their goals and objectives. Our experienced team works side by side with your team to ensure that the IT solutions and services they choose are the right fit for your business.

We offer a range of IT consultancy services based around three (3) key pillars:

  • Strategy & Advice: Analyze, develop and realign your IT strategy considering elements such as cost, your business objectives and change programs.
  • Governance & Risk: Assess the risk to your business in terms of performance, efficiency and managing exposure. Our consultants provide the processes, procedures and tools to implement frameworks and meet compliance requirements.
  • Transformation & delivery: Make sure IT is helping deliver your business strategy. We provide guidance on the delivery of transformative technology, taking IT and business outcomes into account, as well as cost and readiness.

Our Process
Let’s resolve your company’s challenges together

Consultants may discover that what an organization wants is not what it needs, and if doesn’t address what it needs, it will lead to failures and waste of time and money. 

What is needed to correct this? 
We utilize the following 12-step process in order to  increase the chances of success.

Step 1: Problem Definition
What’s going-on in the IT department/organization? We meet with the principal decision makers and key executives to see what they feel their biggest challenges (problems) are, what they think their greatest opportunities are, what they think their greatest strengths and weaknesses are, and what they think needs to change to meet their challenges effectively and take advantage of their opportunities.

Step 2: Assessment of Outcomes
What outcomes does the organization want to achieve? We put together the input from Step-1 and reach a consensus about these outcomes with the principal decision makers.

Step 3: Available and Not Available Approaches
The organization selects consultations and actions that are necessary to reach those outcomes, e.g. structural reorganization, team building, strategic planning, business planning, financial planning, etc. Which of the resources to achieve those goals are available and accessible within the IT department, and what will need to be added?

Step 4: Strategic Planning of Consultation
The order and sequence of different consultations and actions is established. Who is going to do what, when, and where is determined, and a process for accountability is established.

Step 5: Education and Involvement of Key Executives
We educate the main decision-makers on agreed upon outcomes, agreed upon strategies to achieve those outcomes, and the people within the organization best suited to execute those strategies, then obtains a commitment to action from these decision-makers.

Step 6: Education and Involvement of Relevant Staff
The key executives and/or consultant explain what is going to happen, why, why now, then obtains a commitment from the people who are going to do what is called for.

Step 7: Fine Tuning
We assist the organization in adjusting and modifying approaches to fit the situation as it evolves.

Step 8: Does the Consultation Work?
We check to see that the approach is producing the desired results (i.e. moving the organization towards agreed-upon outcomes).

Step 9: Monitoring Mechanism
We determine a way to periodically measure and make changes to keep everything on course and gains commitment from key executives and managers to implement that monitoring system.

Step 10: Continuity
We help the organization develop a program to follow through with changes. There needs to be some kind of scheduled periodic follow-up to ensure follow-through (turning changes into habits).

Step 11: Maintenance
We help the organization develop a way to make necessary changes when called for and make them part of the corporate culture so that the organization is self-reliant.

Step 12: Disengagement
We help the organization develop a way to make changes on their own without the our help. An early warning system/process is developed for the organization to know when problems are arising, and address them.