entrustIT have a wide range of skills that are available through our short term consultancy service. Assignments can be as short as one week or as long as one year, depending on the nature of your need.

Typically consultancy for the installation of a technology such as VMware would be for several days, whereas the assignment as part-time IT manager would be for one or two days per week, but based on a term of six months or more.

We are able to provide skilled It professionals to support consultancy in any of the following areas :

• Windows Infrastructure
• Management Information Systems
• Virtualization
• Managed Services

Virtual IT Director
The size of your company and sometimes the nature of your business; will determine whether your business will need a senior management figure that is seen as Head of IT.
ihotdesk have several consultants that perform the role of IT and Communications Manager for our clients. These assignments are typically part-time and are for one or two days per week. The ICT manager works at board and senior management level within your business, so to understand your company plans. The IT manager then builds an ICT roadmap to ensure that your IT and Communications systems can support the company plan.
The ICT manager will assume the position of interface between the IT and Communication functions and suppliers to your business and your employees. The ICT manager will give direction to your suppliers, deal with service escalations, priority setting and lead any projects or change programmes.
Occasionally large clients use us for interim IT Director assignments, which allows them time to hire a full-time recruit.

Project management
Hiring an external project manager to manage your internal projects has a number of benefits for your company:-

• You get a professional, qualified project manager which will in-still certain disciplines to the project
• The members of the project team will have a different relationship with our project manager, this leads to a more formal and structured delivery of the tasks
• Our project manager will insist on more rigid controls and reporting, with fewer assumptions being made.
• You don’t lock in internal resource that is needed elsewhere within your business.

Our project managers are trained in PRINCE2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environments. PRINCE2 is a de facto standard used extensively by the UK Government and is widely recognised and used in the private sector, both in the UK and internationally.

ITIL
We also have expertise in ITIL, with people trained to the latest version 3 of IT service management best practice. Our ITIL consultancies have included an independent review of an IT departments working practices, leading to suggested recommendations to improve service for their company.