Hornford Associates provides professional consulting services to enterprises seeking to align information technology with business goals.
Our approach recognizes the complex relationship between business requirements, technical environment, project management and a viable sustainable solution.
Today business uses complex information systems. Too often these complex systems are not well aligned with business goals and operations. When systems are out of alignment senior management is compelled to deflect their focus and time from core business to address issues and shortfalls in their IT infrastructure. Well crafted architecture aligns technology with business goals; ensuring that structural rigidity within IT does not limit business value. All technology is an investment that needs an acceptable return to demonstrate value.
Our focus areas address critical areas of cost and opportunity for IT managers. Our focus areas are:
Our primary focus is providing professional consulting services in Western Canada from our base in Calgary. We work world-wide in both our foundation services and our focus areas.
Hornford Associates again has a resource focused on Enterprise Architecture Training
TOGAF 8 Training
Red projects happen. We offer a project salvage service. First determin whether the project can be, or is worth salvaging. Second develop a recovery plan. Then the hard part - executing the recovery plan.
Salvaging Red Projects
A few of us have switched to Macintosh. The switch is not always easy. Macintosh Notes is a collection of notes & solutions for using Macintosh computers in Linux/Windows-centric environments.