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Similar to a personal health check, Penmarc's IT Health Check helps you assess your IT system for potential problems, and then devise a plan to ensure it runs effectively in the future.

"The IT HealthCheck helped me to focus on areas that needed more support or were vulnerable to failure. The business case for investment was then compelling and easy to explain"  IT Manager, Retail Consortium, Middx

WHAT DOES THE IT HEALTH CHECK COVER?

1. Basic IT Services: does your IT function run effectively? This broad section covers areas such as your PCs, Internet, security, training, legal compliance and data backup.

2. Managing Growth and Change – this section helps managers to understand how growth and change will impact IT, so that plans and investments can be made accordingly.

3. Managing Information – do your company's managers have the information they need to run the organisation? Is it timely, accurate, secure, useful, and understandable?

WHY USE THE IT HEALTH CHECK?

• Prevent system failure: find out major problems, before they threaten your business' future
• Identify your weak IT areas: find out where your IT systems need attention, before urgent (and expensive) remedies are needed
• Target investment: learn where you need to spend money to get genuine business benefits
• Make cost savings: identify and eliminate unnecessary expenditure/expenses

WHAT DOES THE IT HEALTH CHECK DELIVER?

• A checklist for current IT operations
• A strategic planning tool for IT
• A working paper for discussions with IT consultants/outsourcers

WHO SHOULD USE THE IT HEALTH CHECK?

Technical IT Managers:
- to improve communication with the business; make a more compelling business case for investment.

Non Technical Managers of IT functions:
- to improve their understanding of IT issues, help prioritse tasks and measure performance of support or outsource companies.

Owner Managers:
- to understand IT's implications for their business, act as a planning tool/check list, to help brief IT staff, both internal and external.

Independent IT consultants
- to offer as a service to own clients; act as check list for their services.

"With the IT HealthCheck I quickly saw the small changes that would make our systems more robust and better attuned to other departments needs"    IT Support Manager, Yorkshire

WHICH TYPE OF IT HEALTH CHECK SHOULD MY COMPANY USE?

There are four versions of the IT Health Check; the different versions take account of a company's size and the likely complexity of its IT systems. The four options are:

Large Company Health Check .(250+ staff)
Suitable for an organistion with at least 250 staff, multiple offices or locations.
Other likely factors include a significant IT infrastructure and a Senior Manager Head of IT.
This Health Check covers all of the Medium Company Health Check, plus more on Communications between IT and the Organisation, IT management, and Strategic Planning.

Medium Company Health Check (50 - 249 staff)
This is typically a company with 50 to 249 staff, probably with one major office and smaller branch offices. Key factors here include a significant IT infrastructure and a Senior Manager Head of IT.
This Health Check covers all of the Small Company Health Check plus more on Networks, Branch Offices, Helpdesk and Strategic Planning.

Small Company Health Check (5 - 49 staff)
A company with approximately 5 to 49 staff and a small network with a server.
Here, IT is often a manager's part time responsibility, or there may be a technical support executive, who is not part of the senior management team. This Health Check covers all of the Micro Company Health Check, but also covers issues concerning server installation and basic networking.

Micro Company Health Check (1 - 4 staff)
Typically 1 to 4 people using standalone PCs, possibly networked but without a dedicated server.
This Health Check covers basic IT issues of reliability, security, legality and cost effectiveness. It concentrates on getting the most from PCs.

HOW DO I BUY THE IT HEALTH CHECK?
All versions of the IT Health Check can be purchased in two ways:

• As a Download:
  Direct from the Penmarc website, using a credit or debit card.  This provides an electronic document which is supplied direct to you to download.  You can then work through it at your convenience.
• As a Consultancy Project:
  Should you want the benefits of the IT Health Check, but don't want to undertake it yourself, the Penmarc consultancy option is the perfect alternative.  Using the same document that you can download  from the website, Penmarc's consultants will visit your organisation and work through the document for you. A report will be produced which outlines the results of their investigation.

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