IT Strategy

Use data-driven programs to ask business and IT stakeholders the right questions to ensure you have the inputs necessary to build an effective IT strategy

Overview

Technology innovations and trends continue to rule and impact the way businesses operate. When it comes to planning IT strategy, the key element is to maintain the balance between new business needs, growing trends and limited IT budget. In addition, planning needs to be done for innovating and growing business with the fast paced, evolving ever changing technology. Hence, there is the need for an agile and flexible IT strategy for improvement, and enhancement of business. IT strategy helps in identifying the gaps in IT architecture and functional architecture.

An effective IT strategy helps in resolving the 5 business challenges of Agility, Performance, Innovation, Scalability, and Security. Agility is the freedom to the system to evolve over a period, through modernisation, implementing data modeling structure, cloud operations, and much more. Performance is governed by the response time owing to a large amount of data being handled and to enable these IT systems to be connected round-the-clock, with minimum downtime. Innovation, Scalability, and Security are crucial in terms of adapting to innovations and ensuring your data is secure along with being scalable for the future.

Whitepaper

Only 35% of organizations are effective across their entire process landscape.

SE IT Management and Governance

Our Small Enterprise Management & Governance Diagnostic will highlight your organization’s most pressing IT process needs and prioritize its effectiveness and importance to the business.

The underlying framework provides a comprehensive set of methodologies to train leadership. Understand your current IT Process landscape to understand the teams perception and identify gaps. Discuss which processes would drive the most value to your department and organisation. Identify 3 – 5 processes your team will focus on improving in the next 12 months. Decompose each critical process to better understand the urgency to change and its relevant impact on the organisation and create accountability.

Kickstart IT Led Business Innovation

Historically IT depaartments have been mandated to optimise resources and mitigate risks. This is no longer IT’s core function and today’s executives expect more.

Most organisations want to innovate to generate growth and counter disruptive threats. If CIO’s want to be viewed as strategic partners, they must be ready to act on the innovation mandate.

There are few business processes, products or services that don’t touch IT, and each of these touchpoints presents an opportunity for innovation.

IT needs to start capitalising on these opportunities now. With each successful innovative project, the CIO will get one step closer to earning a seat at the C-suite table.