For most businesses today, technology is central to enabling strategy and execution excellence. Deloitte’s Technology Strategy & Architecture (TS&A) practice advises CIO’s and other CxO’s in developing and executing technology strategies that drive exceptional business value. In a world of accelerating change and technology innovation, Deloitte TS&A helps our clients identify areas that will make an impact on their business in order to drive focus on practical solutions that support the key business strategies. We help our clients by providing leading practices, thought leadership, solutions, subject matter experts with a global experience, and tools and accelerators to drive value quickly. Deloitte TS&A supports our clients through the solution lifecycle from initial technology enabled innovation leading to strategy and architecture, and working with our implementation practices to operationalize new solutions. Sometimes the business strategy includes a business acquisition, disposition or merger. Our TS&A practice provides advice and implementation support to the merger teams responsible for designing the new IT function, setting synergy targets and achieving Day 1 close. Our TS&A practice also specializes in helping CIO’s to transform the IT Function by examining the “Business of IT” and implementing new operating models, processes, talent disciplines, and solutions to make IT more effective and efficient. This includes services and solutions related to innovation, outsourcing, architecture, cloud, service management, IT financial management, mobile, infrastructure management, governance, application and data management.