Strategic IT planning in a world of change

Whilst big organisations may drive change, small to medium sized ones normally have to follow. Schools are no exception and this naturally tends to set up a disparity whereby the biggest gain a ‘first user’ advantage which, in turn, over time erodes the competitive edge of smaller organisations.

Scarily, the speed of change in IT is becoming exponential. The good news for smaller schools is that they are generally much more flexible than their bigger cousins and can adapt and implement change more quickly and easily. The challenge that remains for all is to decide which changes to adopt and when.

Education needs to leverage the upsides of new developments in technology and IT, yet the skill-set and competencies required to do so are increasingly complex That is why so many small schools and colleges are outsourcing their strategic IT planning to ramsac – where knowing what will happen next is a large part of our ‘day job’.

Everybody at ramsac is a self-confessed IT ‘geek’. We love IT with a passion and ‘knowing what comes next’ is a matter of personal pride for us all. Outsource your IT strategy planning to ramsac and you get the following benefits:

• Access to some of the best IT brains in the UK
• The insight and wisdom of a team who live and breathe IT
• A broad collateral experience that knows which IT strategy works for other businesses like yours
• A truly independent appraisal of future-facing options
• Hands-on experience of implementing change and change management

No school is alone in facing the challenges of IT planning. The good thing is that because ramsac works with so many different educational establishments it has a broad experience of what has worked, and what hasn’t, elsewhere. Better still as an IT business truly independent of the IT supplier base, we can share this knowledge with you in an agnostic way.

Best of all, ramsac deeply understands the level of IT dependency in schools and keeps a general watching brief on all IT developments in IT hardware, IT software, IT systems and IT networks that might impact on your future decisions.

We deliver our strategic planning services in a variety of ways. At one end of the scale schools use us as a sounding board as and when the need arises. At the other end we provide the strategic IT voice at senior management level.

The better we understand your long-term development plan the better placed we are to help. The end result is a cost-effective IT strategy that meets your needs while reducing costs and exposure to risk, and which can be implemented and deployed with the minimum of disruption.