Though IT consulting includes anything and everything related to information technology, nearly all of the work falls under eight main categories:
- Strategy: creating a long-term plan that defines how IT will support the business
- Architecture: designing the plans and guidelines to build IT systems
- Implementation: overseeing the execution of the IT plan
- Systems integration: connecting different parts of the IT system and ensuring they work together
- Data analytics: capturing, processing, and analyzing data to help answer business questions
- Security: creating a strategy to prevent unauthorized access to hardware, networks, and data, and ensuring systems are compliant
- Software management: planning and leading software projects, including scheduling, tracking, and delivery of code
- ERP (enterprise resource planning) services: helping choose the software the company uses for daily business activities (like accounting or project management)
