Aspiranet, a leading non-profit organization supporting families and children across California, faced significant challenges with their IT infrastructure. Their mission-critical services demanded a robust, secure, and reliable IT environment, but their previous provider struggled to meet their needs.
This case study explores how Aspiranet partnered with Blue Tree Technology Group and TierPoint to transform their IT infrastructure and service delivery. Discover how they addressed key challenges, including:
🔹 Ensuring a continuously operational IT environment for emergency and regular services
🔹 Adhering to strict HIPAA regulations and California state laws
🔹 Implementing a reliable disaster recovery solution for service continuity
🔹 Enabling efficient IT issue management for staff productivity
Learn how Blue Tree’s strategic advisory services led to the selection of TierPoint as the standout cloud data center provider. Explore the comprehensive suite of IT services TierPoint offered, including:
– Robust and secure private cloud infrastructure
– Comprehensive disaster recovery solution
– Efficient Help Desk support and escalation processes
– White-glove Enterprise Client Services (ECS) for strategic guidance
Witness the remarkable results of this collaboration, including a smooth data center migration, enhanced disaster recovery capabilities, improved Help Desk services, and ongoing strategic IT guidance aligned with Aspiranet’s mission.
Watch how this transformative partnership empowered Aspiranet to focus on their vital work, confident in the security, compliance, and efficiency of their IT infrastructure.
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Most established companies have deployed such digital technologies as the cloud, mobile apps, the internet of things, and artificial intelligence. But few established companies are designed for digital. This book offers an essential guide for retooling organizations for digital success. In the digital economy, rapid pace of change in technology capabilities and customer desires means that business strategy must be fluid. As a result, the authors explain, business design has become a critical management responsibility. Effective business design enables a company to quickly pivot in response to new competitive threats and opportunities. Most leaders today, however, rely on organizational structure to implement strategy, unaware that structure inhibits, rather than enables, agility. In companies that are designed for digital, people, processes, data, and technology are synchronized to identify and deliver innovative customer solutions―and redefine strategy. Digital design, not strategy, is what separates winners from losers in the digital economy.
Designed for Digital offers practical advice on digital transformation, with examples that include Amazon, BNY Mellon, DBS Bank, LEGO, Philips, Schneider Electric, USAA, and many other global organizations. Drawing on five years of research and in-depth case studies, the book is an essential guide for companies that want to disrupt rather than be disrupted in the new digital landscape.
Expert technology strategist Peter High emphasizes the acute need for IT strategy to be developed not in a vacuum, but in concert with the broader organizational strategy. This approach focuses the development of technology tools and strategies in a way that is comprehensive in nature and designed with the concept of value in mind. The role of CIO is no longer “just” to manage IT strategy―instead, the successful executive will be firmly in tune with corporate strategy and a driver of a technology strategy that is woven into overall business objectives at the enterprise and business unit levels.
Maximum innovation happens at the edge of chaos: the messy, risky, and uncertain threshold between randomness and structure. Operating there is uncomfortable but it’s where organizations “invent the future.” EDGE is a set of fast, iterative, adaptive, lightweight, and value-driven tools to achieve digital transformation.
When turbulence is the new normal, an organization’s survival depends on vigilant leadership that can anticipate threats, spot opportunities, and act quickly when the time is right. 
A penetrating examination of the new technologies that are disrupting business and government—and how organizations can harness them to transform into digital enterprises. The confluence of four technologies—elastic cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things —is fundamentally changing how business and government will operate in the 21st century. Siebel guides readers through a fascinating discussion of the game-changing technologies driving digital transformation and provides a roadmap to seize them as a strategic opportunity. He shows how leading enterprises such as Enel, 3M, Royal Dutch Shell, the U.S. Department of Defense, and others are applying AI and IoT with stunning results.
Depending on the size of your organization and the size of your budget hygiene team, you may find more lasting and scalable success by starting with one business unit. This is also important as different units – say Marketing or HR – require their own unique set of technology tools and resources. 
What challenges do you foresee? How will you record and organize the data? Do you have the support of most if not all of the key stakeholders? Are employees going to be resistant to any changes?
Similar to taking stock of your personal habits, you need a clear picture of your organization’s current state before you can possibly make informed budget choices. After you’ve identified the business vertical you want to start with, collect and organize a complete inventory of the following:
After you’ve collected all the necessary data, analyze it by asking the following questions:
Executing on budget decisions is bound to encounter obstacles. Most likely, not all stakeholders are going to be supportive. Many employees are going to resist any changes to the way they are used to doing things. Hopefully, all of these obstacles were foreseen and prepared for. Continue to listen and acknowledge the validity of any concerns and communicate all the benefits of the new technology initiatives.