IT Strategy Management
Introduction
Organisations such as yours are under sustained pressure from multiple stakeholders to constantly review and improve the manner in which information technology is utilised by your organisation to do business. These stakeholders include your employees, suppliers, partners and customers. Anyone that deals with your business expects to be able to communicate with you in as timely a fashion as possible and with as few barriers as possible.
The question is: How do you manage and deliver on these diverse expectations effectively given the pace of change in technology? It is imperative in today’s market that your organisation has a well defined and detailed IT Strategic Plan in place. Changes should be considered within the context of how it will impact the business and, more importantly, what benefits it will provide.
How Will We Help You?
Strategic Consulting Team will work with you to develop an IT Strategic Plan that will seek to align your business objectives with the technology components that we believe are required to assist you in meeting these objectives. In doing this we will provide the following services:
- Strategic Information Technology Review
- Development of a Strategic Information Technology Plan
Our review will be to look at the current interaction between your organisation’s people, processes and technology. We will determine how these currently align with your organisation’s business objectives and where there may be scope for improvement.
We will work with you to develop a plan which will identify your organisation’s immediate, medium and long term business objectives and the various technologies that will be required to assist you in achieving these. The plan will address those external forces that impact upon the ongoing operations of the business and how technology can be used to manage these. These might include:
- Providing customers with a single view of their accounts
- Improving business processes to provide a faster time to market for new products
- Integrating various components of your supply chain to streamline your end-to-end business processes
- Outsourcing selected components of your information technology service delivery capability
What Benefits Will You Receive?
There is much truth in the adage, “those that fail to plan, plan to fail”. A well thought out IT Strategic Plan will provide a number of different benefits to your organisation, including:
- An understanding of how your information technology assets are currently being utilised and what benefit they are providing to your organisation. Where can you achieve rationalisation with the different applications in use? Many clients are using multiple applications across different business units – all for the same purpose!
- Extending the life of your existing applications and minimise upgrading for upgrade’s sake
- A roadmap of how business and IT will work together and the groundwork that needs to be laid in order for this to be a successful partnership
- A benchmark of your organisation’s information technology strategy against others within the same vertical
Most importantly of all, how to manage the total cost of ownership while meeting the required business objectives! |
