Welcome to SITFO.org

Is your organisation getting the best out of its investment in Information Technology? Can you respond quickly to changes in the business, or do you have to look for a new IT solution or add-on every time the goal posts move? Do you have an IT strategy or a set of policies with an expensive dependency on your suppliers?

SITFO's vision is to facilitate the delivery of a new model for the deployment of Information Technology. Gone are unsustainable, proprietary 'point solutions'. Here is the new 'agile infrastructure', deploying reusable components that deliver a range of integrated, generic IT services, facilitating true customer-focused business transformation AND savings. In large organisations, SITFO can demonstrate savings running into Łmillions on both infrastructure and process improvements.

Pioneered in the UK, the Strategic IT Framework is now being adopted across the world by both public and private sectors alike. In the City of Derby, it has been acknowledged by Socitm as one of the few UK local government infrastructure projects to have enabled sustainable business transformation. SITFO continues to engage with national governments and global corporations to deliver local and regional strategic frameworks across a wide range of industry sectors.

Increasingly, we are seeing evidence of IT suppliers working against customers' best strategic interests in order to hit sales targets and maximise revenue. On the flip-side, we're also seeing tactical, performance managed objectives being used by senior managers as career stepping stones, at the expense of an organisation's strategy and at significant long-term cost. Are you allowing business managers and low-level technical staff to make choices about technology without having the skills to understand the longer term costs and consequences? Does your organisation even have the skills to recognise when this is happening? SITFO's governance is your protection.

We have engaged with private sector corporations, local government, and national governments up to ministerial level from the following countries: Belgium, China, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Northern Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Spain, States of Jersey, South Africa, Sweden, USA and Wales. SITFO provides the means to achieve buy-in, scrutiny and governance from your board. We can deliver ad hoq consultancy and critical friend services, on a short or long term basis, as well as Non-Executive Director input at board level.

SITFO will enable you to deliver not just your own framework, but also sustainable business transformation, linked to the delivery of IT and information management strategies aligned to your business vision.

"It's a refreshing change to see how IT can work in synch with the business... in a message delivered without the pompous, indigestible flannel of management consultancy..."

"Don't hesitate about doing this... a worthwhile investment in delivering an IT strategy AND getting buy-in."

"I can see suppliers resisting this since it cuts right across their revenue model. It's time WE set our own agenda."

"I was sceptical at first about SITFO being yet another consultancy treadmill but, for a change, this is a revolutionary message, delivered by someone who has actually done it."

"In a single day, you have led us to our vision, bonded our team, and enthused us all to deliver our own framework. If anyone had told me that was possible beforehand, I would have laughed. Thank you."

"... our members took one look at your approach and asked why we weren't doing the same. We've achieved the buy-in, now we've got to deliver it!"

"When you put it like that, this is an obvious fit for joined-up services. Has the UK Government seen this?"