Our Approach
The SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY product suite provides affordable, easy-to-use tools that any organisation can use to check whether its software systems are appropriate, effective and well managed.
These tools enable you to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your software and systems in a wide range of areas including strategy, governance, organisation, regulation and compliance, infrastructure, licensing, information and transaction processing, cost effectiveness, project management, security, disaster recovery, and risk management.
SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY focuses on your business needs not on technology for its own sake. We help you to evaluate and increase the efficiency of your software, the productivity of your employees and the profitability of your company.
Our philosophy is based on combining local knowledge with external expertise.
Every organisation knows its people and its processes better than an outsider or a consultant can. But a fresh face with experience of other companies and business environments can introduce new ideas and often see problems that pass an insider by.
The SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY suite of products combines the best of both. Our software tools – with their embedded expertise – raise the issues and ask the questions that an outside expert would pose, while allowing the insiders to conduct the exercise for themselves with their detailed knowledge of the organisation and its people.
What used to be a lengthy and expensive consultancy exercise can now be quickly achieved in-house for a fraction of the cost.
About Us
The SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY product suite is supplied by IT Risk Manager Limited.
The company was founded by Michael Talalay, a Canadian expatriate living in London and with over twenty-five years of experience in business and IT in the UK. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from MIT and a PhD from University College London.
He has worked with some of the world’s leading companies including BTR, V.Ships, Butler Group, Wang Laboratories, The Swire Group, Cambridge Technology Partners, and TATA. He has served on the faculties of York University in Toronto, Boston University, and Nottingham Trent University.
Other Services
In addition to SOFTWARE EFFICIENCY, we provide expertise in the selection and implementation of complex IT systems, in risk and crisis management, and in IT strategy and change management.
We are also a leading, independent supplier of IT consultancy services to the global ship management industry.