Oak Street Associates, Inc. provides operations management and project management services to corporate information technology departments and information technology businesses. We specialize in bringing order and momentum to complex or troubled initiatives, as well as in identifying, analyzing and pursuing reductions in IT operating costs. This work often includes defining and managing scope, budgets, timelines, and teams. Where lacking, we create good process to enable sound management of IT operations and system implementations.

Our 20+ years in IT has included managing major IT initiatives, effecting organizational change and driving operational improvements for prominent companies in Manufacturing, Marketing, Pharma, Biotech, Health Care Delivery, Software, Financial Services.

• Reduction of IT operational costs through thorough analysis of applications, infrastructure, user distribution and organizational structure.
• Lasting improvement to asset management through system inventory and cost-conservative business processes and standards.
• Leadership of complex initiatives calling for effective communication, active issues management, significant executive reporting and sensitive stakeholder management.
• Fostering understanding between business and technology groups
• Management of vendors to source products and services, from business case from requirements identification through vendor selection, contract negotiation and implementation.
• Continuous improvement of team performance through coaching and process design.
• Formulation of IT strategy, strengthened by analysis to enable informed deployment of human, technical, and financial resources in support of the enterprise line of business.
• Ensuring compliance with government and industry regulation (PCI DSS, SOX, GxP), and leveraging those efforts for lasting operational improvements.

We'd be delighted to speak further about how you can put our services to work in your organization. Please contact mary@oakstreetassociates.com; we look forward to hearing from you!