IT Leadership Support Capabilities
Applications Rationalization Strategic Roadmaps
Charting your path to long-term success requires identifying all of the projects and activities to be delivered, sequencing them in the correct order, understanding external dependencies, and making course corrections as needed. Roadmaps, and their governance, are the key to achieving all of your objectives.
Program Management Office Development
Program Management is critical to IT success. With multiple projects always in flight, coordination is needed to avoid resource and scheduling conflicts. Just as Air Traffic Controllers coordinate take-offs, flight plans, and landings, program management makes sure that individual projects stay connected to your broader objectives.
Mergers Integration Support
Merger Integrations present unique opportunities and challenges for IT. Transforming your business within tight timeframes while navigating regulatory compliance and organizational change is a huge undertaking. Planning IT Integration activities is a significant contributor to deal synergy. Careful planning enables you to protect data, set up the new IT operating model, and transition services without losing the Secret Sauce that was the reason for the deal.
Multi-Vendor Delivery Governance Design
Selecting the right vendors for hardware, software, and services is one of IT’s most significant challenges. The objective is to balance the economies of scale through vendor consolidation with the capabilities of each vendor. If you have too many vendors, your environment will be too expensive and complex to maintain. If you consolidate to too few vendors, you will sacrifice the critical capabilities you need to support your business objectives.
Business Analytics and Intelligence
Effective analytics focuses on developing new insights from past business performance, competitor information, and evolving customer needs. Identifying the areas of study, aggregating and maintaining the appropriate data, and presenting the results in a timely and effective manner requires constant attention. As you mine more data from external sources (social media, web traffic, etc.) and create it using digital automation and AI platforms, the complexity of data management increases exponentially.
Divestiture Separation Support
Separations present different opportunities and challenges for IT. Transforming your business and IT operating models to support a smaller, leader organization is a huge undertaking. Moving to a new service delivery model for customers and employees while meeting any Transition Services Agreement (TSA) obligations is difficult proposition for any organization.
Interim Leadership and Transition Support
As your IT landscape evolves to leverage more cloud solutions and service providers, the skills your team needs change. Working with you and Human Resources, we can help you develop approaches for keeping your team up to date and ready for new challenges you are creating for them.