One Page IT Plan
Team Extreme developed the Extreme Networks One Page IT Plan to provide small business owners with a quick snapshot of their IT infrastructure, highlighting both the risks and opportunities within their business.
The One Page IT Plan is Australia’s first comprehensive planning tool for SMEs
OPIP empowers businesses to leverage technology for sustainable competitive advantage. Drawing from our extensive experience, we’ve crafted a robust framework. We specialize in delivering technical solutions to various sectors, including Schools, Accountants, Lawyers, Manufacturing, Restaurants, Professional Services, and general Small and Medium-sized businesses.
What is in a One Page IT Plan?
The OPIP has been developed from our 12 point audit process, which covers 13 critical areas for a business. (There are 13 components to our 12 point audit because we like to under-promise and over-deliver. 🙂 )
01
Backups
A critical component for all businesses, this looks at what is backed up, when it is tested and how quickly it will take.
02
How resilient is the business to disruption and how can it be improved? Is the business running unwarranted risk?
03
Security
Each year security becomes more important for SMEs, with more threat actors and more sophisticated attacks. We’ve partnered with the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Essential 8 methodology, which we’ve tailoured for SMEs.
04
The one area to rule them all, documentation is the first part in planning and executing your IT Plan and cutting support costs.
05
The fabric on which all your data runs – how can it best be utilised?
06
Online Marketing
Creating an integrated sales funnel is often the quickest way to supercharge your business’ growth.
07
Internet
Wireless, Fibre, NBN, 5G and redundancy – which is right for your business?
08
UPS + Power
More than just UPSs – do you need power during a prolonged outage and can solar play a part in your businesses power strategy?
09
Printing
Is your printer costing too much money, or should you been looking to move to a paperless office?
10
Fleet Management
Allocating a budget for software, hardware, and services over three years to support financial planning within the business.
11
Patch Management
A sub component for security – but it’s more than just Windows, it’s around applications and even IoT device management.
12
Business Strategy
Offshoring, KPIs, business automation – this area covers some of the highest ROI processes we have helped our customers with.
13
IT Strategy
Cloud, on-premise, Commercial Off the Shelf Software or bespoke? Developing a strategy around knowledge management to ensure that your people have the information that they need to do their job.
What are the big wins that can come from a One Page IT Plan?
The strength of the one page IT plan is that it is aligns business goals with the goals within the business.
One customer, looking to exit their business, identified areas to improve with the OPIP process to ensure the business was saleable. They were subsequently able to successfully sell their business.
Many customers have been able to cut their IT costs with the OPIP identifying issues and suggesting better ways the business can be more self-sufficient and resilient.
How to create an OPIP for your business.
The easiest way is to work with the team from Extreme Networks. The biggest mistake we see with OPIPs is that you don’t know what you don’t know. Team Extreme regularly review OPIPs as a part of our continual business improvement process for ourselves and this means that each OPIP benefits from the team approach. When a customers
The process for the OPIP development is based on the OODA Loop – Observe, Orientate, Decide and Act.
Based on the OODA Loop developed by COL John Boyd, our process commences with an Environmental Scan, which looks at technology, competitors and customers. The assessment is a straight forward process documenting the current state of the business and highlight risks and opportunities. Plan and Prioritise looks at how the limited resources of time and money are to be allocated and then risks are managed and opportunities are exploited.
The process for the OPIP development is based on the OODA Loop – Observe, Orientate, Decide and Act.
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