Its all about betterment...
Business today is tough, competition is growing on a global scale, and consumers have access to more information than ever before! These external threats are some of the stimuli that dissolve profitability and competitive advantages. To gain a sustainable competitive advantage, your business must understand, rectify and strategize in a way that is beyond the standard model of assessment; think beyond your competition, beyond your existing products or services and beyond your current market. This can only be achieved by understanding your business from all angles...
What we do...
Our approach involves an internal audit, customer research, and market positioning analysis that will paint clearly a focal point for revamping your position, refocus your strategic direction, and shape the develop your product/services plan. Unlike other firms, we do not stop there! Your plan is just the first stage! We will work with you as you each step of the way to assist your efforts towards building a stronger business.
Going Green
More businesses are going paperless with green business policy. Do your part in helping our world be a better place for the generations to come. Let us help you shape your technology and operations to meet green policies.
We can help...
New Client
As our client you will benefit from our strategic way of thinking in ways we can assist your technology and operations needs, with green policies to ensure your processess will be good for the environment.
Partners
Mackenzie-Allen is partnered with local computer suppliers to bolster local employment and development. We are also part of the Microsoft Partnership Program in efforts to give you a comptitive advantage.
Our Associates
Paul Allen works with a highly skilled team of professionals that specialize in:
Paul Allen BBA IT
Paul obtained his Bachelors of Business Degree with joint majors in Information Technology and International Marketing from St. FXU & UPEI in 1998.
From 1997-2001 he worked with Industry Canada as Project Manager for the provinces Y2K awareness campaign and e-commerce initiatives. Paul was the lead project manager for Nova Scotia in establishing readiness reports for various businesses, and not-for-profit organizations. One key project included the readiness reports and systems testing audits for the Medical Society of Nova Scotia. In 2003, Paul developed a system to assess and improve business performance and profitability, through strategic operation systems management assessments.
IT Systems Audit/Planning
Accountants perform business audits, perform systems audits. to give you piece of mind from purchases made, security leaks and provide systems planning recommendations. Audit process covers three distinct phases:
1. Troubleshooting Phase identifies issues affecting the overall flow of information through the system and the physical data collection to determine the entire network infrastructure for corrective recommendations.
2. Managerial Objective Phase to collect relevant information (interviews, document reading, and visual qualitative observations) on the management control framework and operational functions.
3. Reporting Phase to finalize the information analysis for recommendations for future growth plans to ensure hardware is well equipment to handle technological advances.
Our Objective
It is our objective to assess the hardware management control framework to ensure that the IT function is efficiently setup and managed effectively and review all business functions in relation to IT hardware and software services to assess the appropriateness.
Our Methodology
Our methodology to ensure a wide coverage for data collection, interviews will be conducted with senior management and data will be collected from hardware and software within the firm. To ensure the audit meets with industry standards, we utilize the following standards documents to create an integrated audit methodology:
IT Myth One:
Myth One: Information Technologies are complicated. They are not! What is complicated is the business requirements that technology is suppose to address. If the function and output of an application or system are well defined and the strategies for deploying it and achieving user acceptance are sound, applying the technology is relatively simply. Ridiculous cost and schedule overruns of IT projects are almost always avoidable in proper requirements analyses are done.
IT Myth Two:
IT is an appropriate solution for every problem. Not so, and easily avoided with simple cost-benefit analysis. If cost-outweigh benefits, some things are not worth doing. Of course it’s not that simple. First you have to get a straight answer on what it’s going to cost to make you do what you want it to do. Then you have to somehow calculate what the actual value is of it doing what it’s suppose to do if it ends up costing what it’s suppose to cost. And all that takes time and money; a lot less time and money though, than implementing and maintaining an expensive solution that adds un-required complexity.
IT Myth Three:
Information Technology reduces expenditures. It could, but it does not. What it does do is raise expectations for more, better, and faster services and customer-centricity. What it may do is allow the firm to shift financial or even human resources to other priorities. What it actually does is create more or ongoing expenditures. And that’s fine as long as it provides benefits to your staff and customers.
The Importance of Planning and Delivery...
Let the professionals at Mackenzie-Allen perform a technology audit on your system to track its performance, growth and security issues. Our Information Technology Audit will inventory your entire hardware, software, network infrastructure and the resources required to maintain the deliverables to your clients. Our technicians will check for security leaks and our consultants will ask a series of tailored questions to help steer future growth requirements planning.
Contact Us
Our Address
440 -36 Solutions Drive
Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3S 1M7
p. 1.902.835.0232 c. 1.902.835.0232 f. 1.902.835.0060 e. paul_mackenzie-allen.com
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