Janco Associates, Inc.
Janco Associates, Inc. is a management consulting firm that focuses on Management Information Systems, and in particular on the strategic application of information technology to gain competitive business advantage. As part of our practice we create ELECTRONIC products that we create and sell via the internet. These include:
- IT Infrastructure
- Salary Surveys
- Job Descriptions
- Templates for Disaster Recovery and Security
- Polices and Procedures
You can reach Janco via
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e-mail at: Contact Janco Associates, Inc.
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phone at: 435 940-9300
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Federal ID Number is: 91-2080545
We are a Nevada based corporation and have a sales offices in Utah. If you need more information please contact us via the e-mail address above or by phone.
Our Practice
Janco has a proven approach which results in actions which lead to significant operational improvements by focusing the organization to meet top management's needs. This is accomplished by looking at the total spectrum of the business function, the technologies utilized, and the overall steps and plans which will help the organization succeed.
Janco's principals and consultants bring to the practice strong backgrounds in data processing in a wide range of industries. The result is the ability to apply specific expertise to unique situations.
Janco has defined a matrix which shows how Information Technology needs are able to adapt to enterprise needs quickly in the ever-changing business environment. Five basic business requirements and the necessary IT capabilities and responses are:
Business Requirement |
IT Requirement |
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Quick Time-to-Market |
Ability to roll our new applications and technology is expanded with the use of System-Oriented Architecture (SOA) |
Restructuring business due to merger, acquisition, or divestiture |
Ability to add, change and eliminate IT operations thru an effective design and implementation of a structured IT Infrastructure for both networks and data centers |
Integration of IT technology with business operations |
Ability to implement and operate on a 7 by 24 basis for all application, application support, network, and processing operations. This included having integrated Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans implemented |
Compliance with mandated security and financial reporting requirements |
Defined policies, procedures, and processes which quickly and efficiently support business operations without hindering to overall effectiveness of the processes that are put in place to support them |
Maintain an ROI which is supports the long-term objectives of the business |
Metrics that are tied to the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) the enterprise and are supported by defined Service Level Agreements (SLAs) |
Janco's principals have consulted since 1982. Our clients primarily consist of Fortune 500 corporations.
Specialized areas of Janco's practice include
- Electronic Books - Create network ready electronic books to eliminate paper.
Improve accuracy, ease of use, and turnaround time. Reduce infrastructure costs
and training.
- Outsourcing Reviews - Analyzing, planning, and managing the migration to
third party providers of operations, network and application services
- Information Systems Reporting - Developing and implementing methods
to focus management's attention on critical data processing operational issues.
- Information Systems for Competitive Advantage - Assisting organizations
in using computer systems and information delivery as tools to generate
business and capture market share.
- Information Systems Planning and Development - Defining direction for
the management of planning, developing, and implementing automated
business systems that complement a firm's strategic needs.
- Internet and Intranet Web Site Design, Implementation and Management -
Create Web sites for corporations and e-commerce.
- Data Network and Communication Planning - Developing architectures
to support the use of decentralized data processing structures, including
point-of-sale networks and multiple-site data entry and retrieval networks
- Competitive Compensation Analysis - Surveying the marketplace of
compensation for data processing professionals, and assessing the
alignment of compensation programs between competing organizations.
Projects have included:
- Strategic Technology Planning
- Competitive Advantage Definition
- Competitive Analysis
- User Procedures Development and Documentation
- Information Systems Assessment and Planning Disaster Recovery Planning
- MIS Performance Metrics and Reporting
- Compensation Analysis
- Telecommunication Cost Reduction/Containment Skills
- Requirements Definition Project Management
- Risk Assessment
- Systems Development
- Electronic Books
- Critical Success Factor Analysis
- Outsourcing Negotiations and Implementation
- Balanced Score Card
- Metrics Definition
- Metrics Implementation
- SLA Implementation
More About Janco
IT Salaries Fall According to Janco
Janco released its 2009 Mid Year IT Salary Survey which shows that overall pay has declined for IT Professionals in the past 18 months. Janco also found that demand is down for IT Professionals. The CEO of Janco, Victor Janulaitis stated, "The current economic climate with its cost cutting mindsets, business closures, and extensive outsourcing has put such great pressure on the IT job market that overall pay has been impacted. Added to that many 'baby-boomers' who had planned on retiring in the next few years are not leaving the job market and you have more potential employees than positions available."
Janco has captured IT compensation statistics since 1996 and publishes its IT Salary Survey semiannually. The IT Salary Survey is based on Janco Associates, Inc. IT Professionals compensation database. Compensation benchmark hiring and salary ranges are established for each position surveyed. In analyzing the study data, the upper and lower quartiles are eliminated to determine benchmark ranges. The benchmark ranges are then used to assess the alignment of a company's actual compensation to the marketplace for each job function. A summary of the most recent salary survey can be downloaded by visiting Janco IT Salary Survey at http://www.e-janco.com/Salary.htm.
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Cutbacks Impact Fringe Benefits for IT
In preliminary results for the Janco 2009 Mid Year Salary Survey, Janco has found that fringe benefits like insurance, 401Ks, flexible hours, bonuses and stock options are being reduced by enterprises as they struggle to contain costs. Janco has tracked this trend for several quarters. The CEO of Janco, Victor Janulaitis said, "Over the first two quarters there has been a noticeable reduction in costs associated with employees. Companies of all sizes freezing salaries, laying-off staff, making employees pay a larger portion of their insurance cost, decreasing bonuses, and cutting other benefits."
The 2009 Mid Year IT Salary Survey will be released at the end of June and more information can be gotten at Jancos websites.
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Change Management Issue for Measuring IT Success
(HP) A significant number of service disruptions are due to poor change processes including flawed impact assessment. The cost to the business of these self inflicted wounds is high. Poorly managed change results in many negative outcomes including:
- poor quality of service
- dissatisfied business customers
- unnecessary rework
- missed deadlines
- higher operating costs
- poor employee morale and infighting
- downtime of business critical services
It is no surprise to anyone associated with IT management that along with the increase in the rate and complexity of change has come a corresponding increase in the interest associated with using a best practice approach to change management. ITIL v3 says that changes should be managed to:
- Optimize risk exposure (supporting the risk profile required by the business)
- Minimize the severity of any impact and disruption
- Be successful at the first attempt
While manyfirms are investing in change management as a best practice, doing it well remains difficult. There are many hurdles that must be overcome to implement a change management process that not only follows a best practice approach but also yields outstanding results. The challenge becomes obvious when you consider that many changes within a large enterprise span multiple geographies, involve multiple teams and organizational units and include infrastructure elements that cross multiple domainsnetwork, servers, storage, and applications.
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Where to Start with Security
The keys to sound security are often considered deployment of a sensible security risk analysis approach, compliance with a recognized standard such as ISO17799 or ISO27000 or BS7799, development of comprehensive information security policies and deployment of a detailed security audit program.
But where to start? The answer is easy - Janco Security Policies and Procedures Template and the Janco Audit Security Program. Risk analysis is often presented in a confusing and over-complicated manner, ISO 17799 or ISO27000 or BS7799 compliance can seem a daunting task, security policies can be totally ignored in practice, and security audit is sometimes less effective than it should be due to over-stretching of busy audit professionals.
http://www.e-janco.com/SecurityAudit.html is intended to provide a launch pad to help alleviate these difficulties. Janco has an approach that works.
Whether you need a security risk analysis method/product, guidance on how to achieve compliance with ISO 17799, ISO27000, BS7799 or your own IT security policies, or whether you simply wish to increase the productivity of your security audit team, the resources at Janco should help.
The IT Security Manual Template provides all the essential sections of a complete security manual and walks you through the creation of each step. Detailed language addressing more than a dozen security topics is included in a 220 plus page Microsoft Word document, which you can modify as much or as little as you need to fit your business requirements.
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Get US IT Salary Data
Participate in IT Salary Survey and get a free copy of the study when it is released in July.
The Janco Associates, Inc. salary survey draws on data collected throughout the year by extensive interviews, internet-based survey data, and survey forms completed by businesses throughout the United States and Canada. The database contains over 50,000 data points for each reporting period.
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