Discovering the strategic direction for your IT and putting the tools in place to ensure technology adds value to your business. Business and technology alignment are essential to the competitiveness of your business. Because of the unprecedented pace and breadth of technological change CEOs have come to realise its strategic impact on all areas of the business.
But most companies do not align the technology strategy and the business strategy:
Our perspective is clear: IT is not a cost centre but a critical contributor to all businesses and should be used to create operational excellence and gain competitive advantage. Our team of expert consultants are all vastly experienced each having been in the industry for a number of years having worked across a broad number of disciplines such as application development, managed services, financial management and competitive strategy.
This experience enables them to deliver value-creating approaches to IT, bringing boardroom-relevant criteria to IT investments and helping high-performance businesses to "think bigger" about IT’s ability to improve operating results.
Benefits
Advanced 365 have a number of packaged consultative service engagements that enable you, as the customer, to select the right one to address your business challenges and ensure your IT is delivering the services you need:
These engagements typically last from 2 – 6 weeks, depending on your business and requirements, and the deliverable is a detailed report explaining our findings and making recommendations for next steps. For example, for the IT Roadmap the report will identify the areas in which you can reduce the operational overhead for your internal staff and will establish where your organisation is now and where you want it to be in relation to the Advanced 365 IT Maturity Blueprint.
The recommendations will provide your internal IT department with a roadmap to enhance those parts of your IT environment which do contribute to maintaining and building your organisation's competitive advantage through the creation of a dynamic, proactive IT environment.
* Source: Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at MIT; as published in: 'Managing the IT Portfolio (Update Circa 2009): Infrastructure Dwindling in the Downturn’, MIT Sloan School of Management, Research Briefing Volume IX, Number 8. August 2009. Weill, Peter (CISR), Stephaniel L. Woerner (CISR) and Mark McDonald (Gartner).
** Source: CISR; as published in: ‘IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results’. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004. Weill, Peter (CISR).
