Strategic IT Review

Business Focused IT Review

Many organisations find that their IT landscape evolves ad-hoc to address tactical requirements rather than being planned and directed to meet the organisation's strategic objectives. As a consequence, IT can become fragmented and misaligned with the needs of the business, in some cases even becoming a barrier to achieving success.

IndigoBlue's Strategic IT Review addresses this requirement. We understand both the business technology context within your organisation, the challenges of existing systems, and the opportunities offered by technology to develop a long-term, business-aligned IT strategy that provides business agility and maximium value.

The review is a subset of the Agile Change Strategy service and can be applied as the starting point at the outset of a business change programme.

The review includes discussions with all the major internal stakeholders and IT suppliers. We take a business-led approach and investigate the potential for automation and integration of business processes and review IT provision against best practice.

Our phased, incremental, collaborative approach offers a number of advantages:

• A successful strategy cannot be defined analytically and imposed - collaboration and feedback is required to arrive at a practical and balanced strategy.
• Introducing a new strategy is a programme of change, involving a wide range of people at all levels within the organisation.
• An emergent strategy can start at a simple level and be enhanced as necessary to result in a closely tailored solution.

IndigoBlue's Strategic IT Review re-aligns an organisation's IT to its business objectives.

The output of the review is a detailed report defining:

• The IT Strategy derived from the overall Business Strategy
• The IT-related challenges to delivering the Business Strategy
• Recommendations on key business systems
• Recommendations on any organisational and/or process changes needed to improve IT delivery
• A roadmap for change
• Budgets and business justification

For many clients, we then remain responsible for the implementation of the recommendations through our part-time IT Director service - Agile CIO - to lead the implementation of the business and IT changes. For other, we assist with the implementation of the change programme.

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