Consulting Services
GFI Consulting aims at leading you through these challenges and globally improving your business performance through an efficient IT support.
Get more from your IT investments
Organisations invest in IT hoping to get tangible business performance results. However, this does not always turn into reality. GFI Consulting Services supports you in making the right decisions and steering your improvement projects toward business and IT excellence.
Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise Architecture (EA) comprises a set of techniques that help you in rigorously describing and analysing the links that exist between your business, your information system and the underlying technology. Enterprise architecture is supported by standard methodology frameworks such as the Open Group’s TOGAF.
Business Process Management
Business Process Management (BPM) is a management approach based on the continuous improvement of enterprise business processes. BPM brings organisations into a lifecycle that comprises the definition, modelling, analysis, improvement and control of their business processes. BPM is supported by standard analytical techniques such as Six-Sigma and process-oriented IT platforms.
IT Service Management
IT Service Management (ITSM) is a discipline for managing information technology (IT) systems, philosophically centred on the customer's perspective of IT's contribution to the business.ITSM is supported by standard practices such as described in ITIL.
Governance
Governance makes sure that business and IT improvement initiatives converge toward common organisation strategic goals. It is steered by a senior committee of excellence that represents all organisation stakeholders and has the sponsorship of the executive management.
Business & Functional Analysis
Successful business & IT projects require a rigorous specification of the intended target. This is of prime importance when specifications serve as a contractual basis third-party suppliers. Business & Functional analysis comprise formal modelling techniques such as BPMN (Business Process Modelling Notation), UML (Unified modelling notation) and Use Case specifications.
Project & Programme Management
Keeping a project on track is a skill. Keeping a portfolio of projects on track is an art. This includes activities such as resource planning, risk management, scope management, delivery management, change management and production roll-out. Project & Programme Management relies on standard practices such as PRINCE2 and Project Management Institute’s PMBOK.
System Development Methodologies
System development in general and software development in particular requires a combination of a rigorous approach and pragmatic agility. Over the years methodologies such as Rational’s Unified Process (RUP) and SCRUM have been defined all aiming at keeping projects under control and ensuring high quality deliverables.