IT strategy with a roadmap your budget can follow
Together with your management and the relevant departments, we shape an IT strategy for the years ahead: roadmap, budget plan and target architecture, with your current technology assessed against documented criteria. From then on, every IT investment serves a business goal you can name.
- A free 30-minute first call, no strings attached
What an IT roadmap looks like
Illustrative example, not customer data: a company with about 40 workstations, historically grown infrastructure and no investment planning.
Year 1
Roll out MFA. Unify the backup strategy. Replace the firewall.
Year 2
Consolidate servers. Harmonize the Microsoft 365 structure.
Year 3
ERP selection or cloud migration.
At the end of the project, risks are prioritized, measures are laid out over three years, investment needs are planned year by year and the target architecture is defined.
When an IT strategy is overdue
Without a strategy, every purchase stands on its own. The IT budget turns into guesswork.
IT is treated as a cost center
IT spends its days reacting to requests and incidents, with no room left to move the business goals forward.
Investments without an overall plan
Software and hardware arrive one purchase at a time. Some licenses and devices end up paid for twice. Nobody sees the full IT budget.
Dependence on individuals
Critical knowledge lives in a few heads. When one of them is away, part of the business stands still.
Unclear future readiness
You cannot yet say where your company stands on cloud, automation and AI, which security and regulatory requirements apply, or what the next steps should be.
What IT strategy consulting covers
Each building block ends in a document that is yours to keep, with every assessment resting on documented criteria.
IT roadmap
Several years at a glance: prioritized projects, a schedule and the dependencies between them. You see when each initiative gets its budget and what else relies on it.
Budget and cost planning
Your IT budget becomes plannable for several years ahead, with a total cost of ownership view and an economic assessment wherever it can sensibly be quantified. You see where capital is tied up and where money can be saved.
Vendor and system selection
Whether ERP, CRM, cloud or IT security, the choice rests on a requirements catalog and a decision paper. Your requirements and documented criteria decide, regardless of whether Visgenix later implements a recommended solution itself.
IT governance
Clear rules on who may approve which IT decision. Decision paths, approvals and responsibilities are written down, so everyone knows where a decision is made.
Technology radar
Cloud, automation and AI, each with a reasoned classification: adopt, watch, or leave aside for now.
Organization design
An IT organization with clear roles and the skills they require, planned together with you. A make-or-buy model settles which tasks you keep in-house, hand to an external provider or run together with one.
What drives the effort and duration of the strategy
Until we have seen your environment, a flat price would be a guess. Four factors set the effort. In the first call we work out which of them count for you.
Size of the IT landscape
How many sites, devices, servers, specialist applications and contracts we assess.
Departments involved
The more departments take part, the more coordination, above all in the two workshops.
Time commitment on your side
Management and internal IT supply goals, figures and decisions. The project plan states upfront how much time that takes.
Billing
Clearly scoped work at a price agreed up front, everything else on time and effort with a budget cap. Both are settled before the start.
The 12 to 16 weeks refer to a full strategy. If you prefer a smaller first step, start with the inventory alone.
Results you can build on for years
Every document is written for the people who decide. Management can follow it, base investment decisions on it and act on it from day one, whether or not Visgenix delivers anything afterwards.
- Written IT strategy including a management summary
- Prioritized roadmap with projects, schedule and dependencies
- Multi-year budget plan with total cost of ownership and economic assessment where it can sensibly be quantified
- Target architecture: documented target state for systems, interfaces, infrastructure and core platforms
- Assessment of the existing IT landscape including risks and quick wins
- Requirements catalog and decision paper for upcoming system selections
- Governance model with roles, responsibilities and core policies
How your IT roadmap takes shape
The path from the first inventory to the finished roadmap takes 12 to 16 weeks. Each step closes with an interim result you can review.
Inventory
Systems, contracts and costs go under review. You get a rated inventory that already names risks and quick wins.
Strategy development
Two workshops with your management and departments set the direction. From them comes the written IT strategy, with a management summary.
Roadmap and measures
The strategy turns into a prioritized roadmap and a budget plan for the coming years.
Optional strategy review
If you wish, we revisit the roadmap every six months and shift priorities as requirements change. This is an ongoing offer of its own, separate from the strategy project.
Optional: the IT strategy review
A roadmap keeps its value as long as it keeps pace with your company. Every six months we can bring it up to date with you. This is a separate, ongoing offer and not part of the 12 to 16 week project.
Roadmap status
Which measures are done and which are behind.
Budget variances
Plan versus actual spending.
New risks
Changes in the threat situation and in operations.
New technologies
What has changed in the market since the strategy.
Changed business goals
What has shifted in the company.
Updated priorities
The roadmap adapts to the new situation.
Frequently asked questions about IT strategy consulting
When the roadmap turns into projects
You can hire Visgenix for the strategy alone. If you want, we also take the roadmap from paper into practice.
- LeistungIT security and complianceSecurity audits for the systems in your roadmap, with advice on technical and organizational security concepts.
- LeistungInfrastructure consultingCloud, network and data center, planned around the measures in your roadmap.
- LeistungManaged IT (German)Day-to-day IT operations and support for your staff, handled by Visgenix.
- LeistungHosting and cloud (German)Your applications, hosted in an ISO-certified data center in Frankfurt am Main.
- LeistungSoftware development (German)Custom applications and interfaces for requirements that standard software does not cover.
Give your IT budget a clear direction
In the first call we look at where you stand, what you are aiming for and whether a strategic inventory is the right first step. Free and non-binding.