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ICT Leadership – Business Success is the tag line for Butler + Associates. Our demonstrated experience across IT and telecommunications provides the foundation for this. We’ve categorised this experience into some functional challenges that we can assist with advisory services.
We believe that in shaping ICT strategy a focus that never deviates far from the business case is important. This is the point of decision where your organisation will confront the trade-offs in allocating time and capital to current and future customer needs – while also considering the competition.
Butler + Associates principals have over 30 years of collective experience in these critical points of decision – things that worked and things that failed. This is the level of consulting expertise we can bring to your organisation.
The more time you are in business you come to realise that a mediocre strategy executed brilliantly usually bears more fruit than a brilliant strategy executed in a mediocre way. Therefore the maximum points of influence you have over your organisation’s future are the interactions and decisions that occur today.
This is where Policy and Business Planning are essential. Policies and Plans generally determine what inputs get allocated and what outputs get measured. The Principals of Butler + Associates have successfully run some of the most innovative and successful ICT business entities in NZ and can help apply these learnings to your business.
The inverse of good governance is chaos – a state of randomness and disorder. Do you ever feel that’s what you have to deal with? Good governance starts with understanding what the organisation must to do to meet the primary needs of all stakeholders and ensuring that those stakeholders participate in the process. This is true of a Board or Project team. It builds on this foundation through clear allocation of accountability and communication of needs to be met, action required and results sought. We have experience in running some of the most successful ICT initiatives in NZ.
The most critical dimension to any commercial negotiation is to know your best alternative to a negotiated outcome and therefore your walk-away position. The second critical success factor is not to send the other party(ies) your negotiation plan with an ill considered late at night ‘reply all’. In three of the last four negotiations Martin has been involved in the alternate party has committed this sin.
Whether it’s working in the background to help you refine your negotiation strategy or leading a negotiation – we can help.
At the end of the day it’s all about outcomes. Technology solutions that deliver the business benefits you seek. The pace of change in ICT means that benefit realisation can be notoriously elusive. Many factors – business requirements and business case, architecture and design, procurement and commercial relationships, governance and change management – must be executed successfully.
The Butler + Associates team have some of the experience available in successfully delivering major New Zealand technology solutions; from the country’s most successful on-line business channels and innovative business applications to national network roll-outs.
We can assist your business with the blend of capabilities required to innovate, manage risk and deliver technology solutions for your business success.