As business projects are implemented to reinvent enterprises, the IT organization must also transform itself to support the business effectively. Sustainable reinvention requires that executives successfully “run” their organizations and “change” their organizations simultaneously to maximize existing potential and create new capabilities for new times. BV’s IT Transformation services assist the CIO during this process to continually produce high performing IT organizations with the right capabilities at the right time.
Do you need IT Transformation services?
Business projects with large, complex technology components often result in the need to change the IT organizations during and following implementations. If one of the following situations applies to you, BV can help you transform IT into a high performing organization.
- Do your enterprise initiatives with large IT components seem to take too long and cost too much?
- Does the IT group feel disconnected from the core business of the enterprise?
- Have you recently begun to implement new IT solutions without changing the organization?
- Are roles and responsibilities between groups of IT professionals somewhat unclear?
- Is there a large project team being folded into the IT function?
- Are IT staff costs rising without an associated increase in performance and productivity?
IT Transformation Steps
Step One: BV and client discuss the best organizational approach to IT and alternative options.
Step Two: Client receives tailored engagement proposal and determines start date.
Step Three: BV begins with an assessment of the current state of the IT function—including strategy, process, technology, and people—to identify strengths, weaknesses and gap areas and develop an implementation plan to move from current state IT to an improved Enterprise IT organization.
Step Four: BV works with the client to choose the right level of centralization/decentralization as well as a single, cohesive solution development lifecycle process. These are key outputs that help determine the needed organizational changes in IT.
Step Five: BV and client create a holistic IT Master Plan, linked to annual and long-range plans for the enterprise as a whole.
Step Six: BV assists client to reorganize IT along a step-by step path, including:
- Develop robust Application and Infrastructure Architecture
- Integrate annual and long-range business plans into IT Master Plan
- Transform IT organization to support strategy
- Evaluate Insource/Outsource strategies
- Create next generation IT organization
- Implement continuous improvement culture
