An Enterprise Architecture (EA) represents a structured and harmonised collection of plans for designing and evaluating the IT architecture of an organisation. It provides a variety of integrated views at different abstraction levels concerning the current and target states of the EA. It also includes a migration plan for transitioning from the AS-IS architecture to the TO-BE architecture. The EA enables IT Managers to manage the overall IT investment in a way that meets the needs of the business, while …
Creating an efficient IT Project Management structure constitutes the prerequisite for managing and effectively organising the implementation of IT systems, by jointly addressing not only IT systems’ implementation issues, but critical people and process issues as well. PLANET’s extensive experience has shown that IT projects are difficult to manage. This is due to not only the typical project management challenges such as strict deadlines, budget and resource constraints, but also because they involve unique technology challenges, arising from the fact …
Nowadays, every organisation uses one or more IT systems to process, store, exchange and share information. Information is an asset that, like other important business assets, is essential to a business or organisation and consequently needs to be suitably protected. This is especially important in our increasingly interconnected business environment, where information is now exposed to a growing number and a wide variety of risks which could compromise the most important aspects of information: confidentiality, integrity and availability. Some common …
European policies are aiming at a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, in a globalised economy based on competitiveness, social cohesion and sustainable development, in line with the Europe 2020 Integrated Guidelines. These policies are further detailed by Member States on a sectorial and regional level, and implemented through Partnership Agreements and multi-annual Operational Programmes (OPs) co-funded by the European Structural and Investment Funds.
The governmental, regional and local authorities involved in policy formulation and in OPs planning and implementation are seeking …
Challenges faced by business enterprises and organizations require the formulation and evaluation of critical decisions, and then taking action upon those decisions so as to positively affect their current standing and future development.
Since such challenges are often of a strategic and/or financial nature, we have identified issues of particular significance and have clustered our services in this area around the following themes:
Corporate Strategy & Business Planning
Integrated Restructuring
Privatization Advisory
Corporate & Project Finance
Financial Institutions Transformation
Successful exploitation of ICT is based on understanding the challenges of the business and aligning resources and initiatives to an organisation’s mission and objectives. In order for this alignment to be achieved, a clear strategy should be formulated based on current IT options as well as on future ICT trends, while taking into consideration the organisation’s resource capabilities (both human and financial). According to the maturity of an organization, an ICT strategy could also include an ICT transformation initiative, in …
Due to their direct relation to growth and employment, infrastructures exhibit dynamic trends and, therefore, complex challenges which affect the total cost for a society. Presently, the limited resources available in most areas require focused management to serve increasing demand with reasonable expansion, whereas the pronounced lack of public funding calls for the application of PPP/Concession schemes for the most sound projects.
Having developed an in-depth understanding of prevailing conditions in this environment, PLANET undertakes an active role in responding to …
More than ever before, in today’s highly competitive and dynamic business environment, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are a critical enabler for an organisation’s success. ICT constitutes a source of competitive advantage and is an important tool in the effort to automate and streamline business operations. It is an extremely useful means to serve an organisation’s needs along the following dimensions:
Commercial: It helps to proactively identify and satisfy customers’ needs and improve the market positioning of a company.
Financial: It assists an organisation …
The Management Consulting team at PLANET develops and provides expert solutions to private and public sector clients. These solutions are custom designed to our client’s specific requirements and conditions. Our services help organizations to improve their performance through the assimilation of international best practices, and support them as they prepare and bring about changes to their processes, organization, human resources and systems. Our comprehensive range of services includes:
Operations Improvement & Performance Management
Organizational Restructuring & Transformation
Capacity Building & Institutional Strengthening
Human Capital Management
Change …
Construction Management is defined as the managing of the complex processes that formulate our built environment (roads, bridges, buildings, industrial facilities, etc.). It is vital for the successful outcome of an infrastructure development project, putting in order the required resources (labour, materials, equipment, time and money) and translating the concept of the project owner and the designers’ work into tangible results.
We undertake the construction management and supervision of small, medium and large scale infrastructure projects, for both public and private …
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