We understand both the business of technology and how technology works within the business to help our clients answer two key strategic questions:
How do I better facilitate my business strategy using technology?
How do I more efficiently and effectively run my IT function?
Our Breadth of Services
We offer technology and business leaders a complete suite of services supported by the broad knowledge and skills base of our professionals. Our industry experience, functional business understanding, management capability, geographic reach and technical depth can help executives in their efforts to address business issues including:
Technology Innovation Leveraging emerging technologies to help create new business models and strategies for revenue enhancement and cost efficiency.
IT Strategy and Alignment Developing a business-aligned IT strategy, starting with a well-articulated, top-down business strategy and a bottom-up technology capability assessment.
Enterprise Architecture
Delivering both the enterprise architectural blueprinting and governance design capabilities required to help effectively define and deliver IT services and capabilities within your organization.
IT Effectiveness Assisting in the execution of strategies by formalizing the tools and processes needed to help increase business value.
Our Powerful and Flexible Tools
Our practitioners draw upon a broad array of toolkits, models, leading-edge practices, diagnostics and management frameworks to help accelerate and improve the quality of projects we support. Powerful, yet flexible, our intellectual property provides a solid foundation to help jump-start projects and is readily adaptable to particular organizations and situations. For example, our tools include:
Deep Dive™ A powerful and practical methodology that offers a step-by-step process to help executives harness the idea power of teams and significantly enhance overall performance, speed, creativity, innovation, process change and effectiveness.
CIO Management Framework™ An integrated view of the key disciplines, processes, organization structures, performance measures and tools required to deliver and manage IT in large organizations.
Enterprise Value Map
A relationship framework depicting practical links between shareholder value and the actions companies can take to improve that value.
IT Value Analytics™ A toolkit designed to facilitate improved business return from IT investment through more effective allocation and management of assets and capital.
IT Due Diligence and Assessment Toolkit Used to support rapid, effective and complete assessments of an organization’s IT capabilities and spend at several levels.
Program Leadership Diagnostic Used to analyze and identify improvement opportunities in seven dimensions: benefits management, risk management, structure, organization, resource management, communications and capability.
Business Model Innovation An empirically based approach designed to help create customer and shareholder value.
IT Resource Strategy Methodology and Toolkit Used to help align career paths to strategic competencies and skills, identify opportunities to share resources, and support the creation of new roles and strategic IT competencies.
