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Planning and prioritising new IT investments require an IT strategy that is aligned to the business strategy. It is also important that there is awareness in the business of the impact of new requirements on IT. The IT strategy proposition ensures that IT be aligned with the needs of the business, both now and in the future. As the business evolves, the IT organisation needs to understand and plan for how the delivery of its core capabilities needs to evolve. The typical drivers for IT strategy are:
- Dominant “legacy” system blocking change – … one or more legacy system with complicated integration, usually as a result of historic reactive investment.
- Upcoming planned merger/acquisition – When two or more organisations are combined, a strategic plan needs to be in place.
- Planned investment in IT infrastructure to support business – IT infrastructure may require substantial investment to support a growing business.
- Changes in the external environment – This can include changes in legislation, competitor behaviour and differentiators in technology.
IT Strategy Value to our clients
The capability to plan and carefully control technology investments is a crucial first step in ensuring that the IT function has the biggest impact in supporting the business in achieving its objectives.
Value to our clients
The capability to plan and carefully control technology investments is a crucial first step in ensuring that the IT function has the biggest impact in supporting the business in achieving its objectives.
Benefits from developing and maintaining IT strategy include:
Maximised value – Strategy brings a robust assessment of business value, to ensure alignment of IT initiatives and operations with the business value drivers.
Direction – Strategy provides both the longer-term vision and the shorter-term flexibility that today’s IT organisation needs to react to ever-changing business conditions.
Improved decision making – The initial strategy provides a baseline to measure the business. This allows you to reassess the business priorities and measure costs and benefits against the baseline. It also provides increased control and promotes more effective investment.
Key enablers for IT strategy
Deloitte has developed an IT Strategy Toolkit. This is an intranet based toolkit, which includes a range of guidance and supporting materials that facilitate the creation of a holistic and practical IT strategy. In addition to a robust methodology, the toolkit includes a range of tools and project accelerators, points of view, reference architectures and deliverables, qualifications and links to other Deloitte content, that facilitate rapid project delivery.
The toolkit can support the development of a full ‘end-to-end’ IT strategy or may be used to guide smaller or more targeted strategic reviews.
IndustryPrint is Deloitte’s business process modeling tool. IndustryPrint captures Deloitte’s best knowledge of business processes for 30+ industry segments and includes a time-tested modeling approach and the standards used on hundreds of projects since 1996. It provides a starting point for business process design and re-engineering. The IndustryPrint website provides access to the IndustryPrint content, modeling application and related support materials.
