Managed IT or IT consulting?
Understand the different jobs each model is designed to do and where a project-led approach fits.
Compare the optionsWise IT insights
Clear thinking for the technology decisions in front of you.
These guides are for owners, leaders and technical teams who need to understand the tradeoffs, gather useful evidence and decide what should happen next.
Decisions and leadership
Start with the problem, ownership and next decision.
Use these guides to choose the right kind of help, assess the environment and organize work that crosses business and technical teams.
What should an IT assessment cover?
Use a practical checklist to gather evidence across systems, support, security and recovery.
Use the assessment checklistHow to build a useful technology roadmap
Connect business priorities, operational pain and technical risk to an ordered plan.
Build a technology roadmapThe first 90 days of an IT turnaround
Stabilize urgent conditions, clarify ownership and establish an operating plan.
Plan the first 90 daysInfrastructure and communications
Prepare for changes that cross systems and vendors.
These checklists help expose dependencies before a platform decision, migration or cutover.
Should a workload leave the cloud?
Compare cloud, colocation, owned infrastructure and hybrid placement with a complete cost and operating view.
Evaluate workload placementHow to plan a virtualization migration
Compare platforms, inventory dependencies and design a staged move with validation and rollback.
Plan the platform changeEnterprise and carrier network assessment
Review topology, routing, capacity, segmentation, resiliency and operating ownership.
Use the network checklistVoice and contact center migration
Prepare numbers, call flows, networks, security, user tests and a controlled cutover.
Prepare the voice cutoverRecovery and emerging technology
Test important assumptions before the business depends on them.
A backup or pilot result is useful when the organization can inspect the evidence and act on what it finds.
Can your backups recover the business?
Turn a green backup dashboard into a realistic restore test with clear evidence.
Plan a restore testHow to govern an AI pilot
Set the outcome, approved data, human review, evaluation and conditions that pause the trial.
Use the AI pilot checklistPut the guidance to work
Your environment will have its own constraints.
A guide can help you prepare, but the final recommendation should reflect your systems, team, vendors, obligations and tolerance for interruption.
Wise IT can assess the current situation, help make the decision and lead an approved project. Ongoing work is available for an agreed set of systems when the fit is right.