Executive consulting for IT companies and providers

I help IT companies grow with method, from strategy to certification.

Portrait of Maria Bonaria Murtas
Maria Bonaria Murtas Engineer · Executive Professional
Ord. Ing. Milano · A 28909

01 — Profile

Management experience, alongside senior leadership.

I am an engineer and an independent consultant. I help IT companies grow their revenue and their sustainability, working side by side with the people who lead them.

I work through coaching for senior management, projects that streamline production processes, and improvements to company culture and sustainability. I specialise in IT operators and IT solution and service providers, with experience in Italy and abroad.

  • 4 Sectors TelecomsRetailBankingShared service centres
  • 5 Markets Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey
  • 3 Services Executive, Service Management, Transition
  • 6 Certifications On the ESG model: governance, environment, social

02 — Services

Three ways of working together.

Engagements can be used on their own or combined, shaped around what the company needs. Open each service for the details.

A typical engagement

  1. Assessment Context, strategy, current state
  2. Programme Goals, priorities, policies
  3. Guidance Coaching and leading people
  4. Review Audit and continuous improvement

Temporary Executive Manager

A temporary role reporting to senior management, to identify and lead the changes that increase revenue, stabilise the business and sharpen the company’s mission.

  • Defining and reviewing the intervention programme: SWOT, risk and policy management, ESG.
  • Management coaching for Operations Managers, Contract Managers and heads of IT practices or production teams.
  • Service governance improvement plan.
  • Third-party governance, including for non-IT clients.
  • Building new skills and aligning the service portfolio with the growth strategy.

Service Management – Excellence & IT Sustainability Program Manager

Programme management to raise customer satisfaction at a service provider, develop new services or cut overruns by optimising IT resources and processes.

  • Review of the context and the ITSM system, with value for the customer at the centre.
  • Implementation and coaching with OpenSM and ITIL: KPIs, reporting, contract management.
  • Continuous improvement with Agile and Scrum, from service design to sales.
  • Setting up or reorganising functions and services, including staffing and coaching of the technical and operations team.
  • For retail-sector providers: advice built around the specifics of the market and its end customers.

SGQ/ITSM Transition Manager

Programme management to introduce the principles and culture of quality and guide the company all the way to certification, building a system that lasts.

  • Analysis of the company context, strategy and policies.
  • Appointment and coaching of the quality manager for the target certification.
  • Running the internal audit.
  • Managing the certification body’s auditors until any non-conformities are closed.

03 — Certifications

Management systems on the ESG model.

From context analysis all the way to certification, for the standards that best fit the business model.

Governance Environment Social
  • Governance ISO/IEC 9001:2018 QMS, the core company quality system
  • Governance ISO/IEC 20001:2018 Quality in IT services (ITSM), recommended for providers
  • Governance ISO/IEC 27001:2018 Information security
  • Environment ISO/IEC 14001:2015 Environmental sustainability
  • Social ISO/IEC 45001:2015 Occupational health and safety
  • Social SA 8000 Corporate social accountability

04 — Qualifications

Recognised methods, applied in the field.

  • Axelos ITIL V3 and V4 Foundation
  • APMG ISO 27001:2018 Practitioner
  • Axelos PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner
  • APMG OpenSM – IT Service Management
  • Scrum.org Professional Scrum Master

Areas of expertise

  • Leadership and team building
  • Relationship management
  • Coaching
  • Business development
  • Business analysis
  • Budgeting
  • Programme and project management
  • Change and transition management
  • IT strategy
  • IT service management
  • Cost optimisation
  • Continuous improvement
  • Management system review

05 — Contact

Let’s talk about your project.

A first conversation, with no commitment, to work out together where to act and how.