IT planning for new and existing businesses

• A new business or a new location. You are starting out and want to set up IT properly from the ground up instead of rebuilding later. Typical occasions are the founding or the first employees, a move into an office and a bank or funding body that wants to see an IT concept.
• An existing business. Your IT has grown and you want to sort it out and renew it step by step. Typical triggers are an IT provider who is stopping, knowledge that depends on one person, old devices or software reaching end of support, and an insurer or NIS2 (EU cybersecurity directive) asking for evidence.

• Inventory or requirements list. For existing businesses, what is there and in what condition, for new ones, what you need.
• A target picture on one page. How your IT should look and how accounts, devices, protection, backup and network fit together.
• Decision list. Which tool does which job, what goes to the cloud and what stays on site, each with a reason.
• Roadmap. The order of the steps, with dependencies and fixed dates such as the move-in or the end of a contract.
• Budget range. For purchases and running costs, plus a list of what needs to be procured.
• Operating model. Who looks after your IT afterwards: you yourselves, a service provider or a mix.

• Clarify industry software (your specialist programs) early. It often decides whether the cloud is enough or you need a server of your own.
• Plan for emergencies and recovery. Who gets the data back, and how, in an emergency?
• Access rights on the principle of "only as much as needed". With separate admin accounts and a clear process for joiners and leavers.
• Obligations and requirements. NIS2, GDPR, the requirements of cyber insurance and retention periods are built into the plan, and we prepare the documents. Legal questions are for your lawyer, formal audits are carried out by an accredited body that we can put you in touch with.

1. Intake

   For existing businesses with the IT health check, for new ones in conversation and, where it makes sense, on a site visit.

2. Target picture

   Together we define how you want to work: locations, devices, security and industry software.

3. Concept

   Network, devices, cloud, backup and responsibilities are worked out, with variants where something still has to be decided.

4. Roadmap

   The steps get priorities and an order, planned backwards from fixed dates.

5. Debrief

   We hand over the documents, answer questions, and you decide.

• The plan belongs to you. It is written so that another service provider can carry it out too.
• Implementation on request. From a network with separate areas for team, guests and printers, through meeting rooms with display, camera and sound, to workplaces that are managed centrally instead of being set up one by one.
• Ongoing support on request. Afterwards, support through Managed Services is possible, without you having to commit to it.
• Bookable without an ongoing contract. The planning stands on its own, and for small businesses the plan is correspondingly compact.

• Who you are. Number of employees, locations and way of working, meaning office, mobile or home office.
• What you work with. Industry software as well as existing devices and contracts with their terms, such as internet, telephony and licences.
• What applies from outside. Obligations such as NIS2, requirements of your insurer or of professional law.
• What is coming up. Time frame and events such as an opening, a move or contracts that are running out.

IT planning does not replace legal advice or a formal audit or certification.