{"id":38,"date":"2026-08-09T05:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualworlds.co.nz\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2026-08-09T05:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:31:20","slug":"consulting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/virtualworlds.co.nz\/?page_id=38","title":{"rendered":"Consulting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Information Services Strategic Planning (ISSP)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a planning process that bridges the aspirations of the company business plan with the more mundane reality of what can be delivered with limited resources by a bunch of technical people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is often much frustration and angst between business users and IT departments.&nbsp; Much of the time this is due to lack of planning and engagement between the two.&nbsp; The IT department lacks the skills to do business planning and the business people lack the technical understanding to ask the right questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past few years we have developed a streamlined process to link the business plan with an ISSP that engages key stakeholders and sets out a 1 to 3 year map of programmes and themes to address the issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Programme Management and Governance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A programme is a set of projects linked by a common goal or objective.&nbsp; Project management is relatively well understood (although not perfect it is more a science than an art).&nbsp; The programme itself needs good governance in order to meet the needs of the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good project management will save you contingency (commonly 30%) if well managed.&nbsp; However, doing the wrong project or doing a project out of sequence can cost much more than any savings made within each project.&nbsp; How may projects have been quietly canned when people realise they are not quite what was required or the scope was not well understood?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Services Strategic Planning (ISSP) This is a planning process that bridges the aspirations of the company business plan with the more mundane reality of what can be delivered with limited resources by a bunch of technical people. There is often much frustration and angst between business users and IT departments.&nbsp; Much of the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualworlds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualworlds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualworlds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualworlds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualworlds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtualworlds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/virtualworlds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualworlds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}