What is IT consulting, which stages it includes? Learn here about purpose, process, and advantages of each phase of IT consulting and by what means it helps to create a successful tech startup.

1. How it works: IT consulting
Halyna Korolevska
Content Manager at MassMedia Group

2. According to the Hello Tomorrow and
BCG analysis survey, conducted
among 400 startups in 2016, the most
important resource for creating
successful deep-tech startups is
financing (80% of respondents).
However, technical expertise (39%) is
crucial as well.

3. IT consulting includes:
● strategic consulting (or strategic planning)
● tactical consulting, which, in turn, consists of:
○ architectural planning
○ operational assessment
○ implementation planning

5. IT startup consulting consists of strategic and
tactical planning. IT consulting helps your
company:
● create a business strategy appropriate to your IT goals,
● develop a detailed plan for creating a startup product step by
step,
● evaluate the project work plan and map out its
implementation,
● to prevent possible errors and flaws in product.

6. Strategic planning.
PURPOSE:
● to help the startup team assess IT needs and
formulate plans for the implementation of the
system,
● to adapt future software to the business
model and goals of your company.

7. MORE ABOUT THE PROCESS: The strategy is all
about “What?”. In other words it helps you
answer the question: “WHAT are we trying to
achieve?”.

8. Tactical consulting.
allows founders of startup to answer the
question “HOW are we going to achieve the
goal?”.
Tactical consulting is planning, during which step
by step a detailed plan for developing your
product is created.

9. Three components of tactical consulting:
● architectural planning
● operational assessment
● implementation planning.

10. I. Architectural planning.
PURPOSE: To create a logical architecture for
both the system and the infrastructure, which will
satisfy the requirements of a business project.

11. II. Operational assessment.
PURPOSE: To evaluate the performance and
potential of the client’s IT environment.

12. III. Implementation Planning.
PURPOSE: To plan the deployment and testing
of implemented business startup solutions.

13. Tech startup consulting as part of a custom
software solution helps you to prevent possible
risks in the development of your business project,
and eradicate small problems that strive to
become dangerous.

14. You carefully plan product development, think
over processes, take into account all the
subtleties, and in the end, significantly save your
money and time.
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