PTI specializes in providing information technology management consulting services to local governments. We assist our clients in the following areas:

Strategic IT Planning

  • Aligns technology investments with business objectives
  • Improves efficiency and productivity of technology users
  • Optimizes use of technology staff resources
  • Promotes understanding of technology decisions among staff and community
  • Provides a costed 3-5 year IT plan suitable for budgeting purposes.

Our strategic IT planning process aligns your organization's information systems with its business objectives. Our planning work provides a comprehensive assessment of, and future strategy for, your information technology applications, infrastructure, staff, and decision processes. We have helped clients save millions of dollars, improve IT service delivery, change technology platforms, and validate existing investments. We employ a workshop-based methodology — supported by one-on-one interviews and quantitative analysis — that has proven to be extremely successful in generating implementable, cost-effective strategic IT plans. TOP

Procurement Assistance Services

  • Uses pre-defined templates to speed identification of requirements, including specifications specific to local government
  • Produces a forms-based request for proposals (RFP) that:
    • Speeds the RFP creation process
    • Ensures consistent vendor responses to simplify proposal evaluations
  • Leverages our extensive experience with packages specific to local government business functions:
    • Finance
    • Utility Billing/Customer Service
    • Maintenance Management/Work Management
    • Permitting/Land Use
    • Human Resources 

In association with our planning services, we also provide systems selection and implementation oversight services. Our work in this arena includes the development of specifications, market research, vendor qualification, package selection, contract negotiation assistance, and implementation planning. We also provide quality assurance and project oversight.

For an article on the perdition of RFP development, co-written by our two CEOs, follow the link bellow. TOP

The Devil and the RFP

Feasibility Analysis

  • Quantifies costs, benefits, and return on investment associated with specific IT projects
  • Serves as basis for budget requests and decision packages
  • Provides concrete justification for technology initiatives

Our feasibility analysis services include the definition of options, identification of benefits and risks, development of cost-benefit models, and development of associated recommendations and reports. Our clients use this work — typically during the course of large-scale projects — to select preferred alternatives and justify associated funding requests. TOP

IT Organization Analysis

  • Utilizes proven analytical tools that are unique in the industry

  • Comprehensively assesses the effort - including outsourced labor - spent on IT-related functions across your organization

  • Employs benchmark data gathered at a variety of public-sector organizations

  • Clearly articulates roles and responsibilities

Our IT organization analysis service line is reality-based and comprehensive. Quite often, the results of our work provide senior management with their first cogent picture of IT labor effort allocation within the organization.  Our approach quantifies the workload of not only "official" IT staff, but non-IT titled staff and contractors as well. Our goal is to understand, in detail, the content and allocation of IT effort across the enterprise. Building upon this analysis, we develop viable organization models, with associated staffing and transition plans, that get implemented — and work. TOP

To learn more about the difference PTI can make in your organization, feel free to send us an e-mail, or call our office at (425) 881-3991.

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