| True IT Strategy calls for in-depth
understanding of your business unit needs, solid relationship
building to create genuine working partnerships with the
business units, and a strict, risk-return mindset focusing
on maximizing business unit profitability. |
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Today’s Chief Information Officer faces unprecedented
and seemingly irreconcilable business pressures to improve
bottom line results for the organization while
simultaneously guaranteeing total system availability.
- Introduce visionary change for competitive advantage
and bottom line gains
- Maximize returns on IT investment dollars
- Maintain maximum system availability at lowest
cost
- Reduce operating budgets while improving service
levels
Any successful IT strategy needs to overcome commmon hurdles such as:
- Structural conservatism – IT gets little
acclaim for taking risks, but receives fierce criticism when systems
fail, forcing a built-in resistance to change.
- Time poverty – Too many conflicting pressures
on staff make it exceedingly difficult to tackle all the important
objectives.
- Insufficient risk management – IT departments
may lack necessary metrics and tools for defining, measuring,
and managing project and investment risks.
- Organizational inefficiencies – Many IT
departments have only minimal capacity for enterprise wide program
management, and even fewer have created the institutional relationship
building process that guarantees communication and cooperation
with the organization’s business units.
How will Major Scale help you develop a successful strategy?
Develop an Investment Management mindset –
Major Scale will show you how
to evaluate and manage your IT initiatives with the same rigorous
risk/return demands used by financial investors.
Build Program Management Office (PMO) capability – Major
Scale will position your existing PMO (or help you set up
a new one) as your due diligence arm for evaluating new IT investments
and for tracking the performance of existing ones.
Seek Operational Excellence – Major Scale will
help your IT organization discover opportunities for more efficient
practices, more productive processes, and improved organizational
structures that maximize enterprise objectives.
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