IT Strategy
- A Major public university was transitioning from a proprietary computing and network environment to an open systems and industry standard network. The CTO Group was engaged to assist in the development of a new IT Strategy
and the associated policies, processes and procedures to support the new environment supporting 20,000 full time undergraduate students and an additional 20,000 graduate students and staff.
Technology Architecture
- The CTO Group was asked to assist in developing an Enterprise Wide Technology Architecture for a university migrating to open systems for 40,000 users.
Infrastructure Application
- A major west coast university was upgrading their overall systems management strategy and plan. The CTO Group was engaged to assist them to develop an overall systems management strategy & plan for 30,000 seats comprised
of students, faculty and staff.
- As part of the overall systems management strategy The CTO Group was requested to develop a formal set of requirements for Electronic Software Distribution and lead the project for the evaluation, recommendation, and selection
of electronic software distribution software.
Network
- The CTO Group was engaged to conduct network readiness review for major university that was preparing to transition from a proprietary network to open distributed computing to support 50,000 seats. Our review included
network architecture, design and implementation.
Website
- The CTO Group was engaged to assist in the strategy and implementation of a Universities first web site. The initial website was planned to transition from a publishing site through transactions and finally supporting
e-commerce. The CTO Group additionally monitored implementation of website development by an external firm.
Business & Technical Planning
- A privately owned multi-billion-dollar education company engaged The CTO Group to examine their current business holdings and operations and use these as a basis to develop a new business plan, strategy and technical plan for
a business portal for use both internally and for clients.
- As part of this effort, we were asked to evaluate the existing businesses and define potential new business opportunities, including market size, competition, value proposition, competitive advantage and differentiation. We
made a series of recommendations for the integration and improvement of the existing businesses, and developed a target list of potential acquisitions.
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