This document discusses several key considerations for outsourcing IT functions, including employee and management perceptions, social and political issues, reliability of outsourcing partners, suitability for individual business needs, and where to start the outsourcing process. It outlines areas of IT that are good candidates for outsourcing, such as non-core functions like vendor management and project monitoring. The document also covers outsourcing risks around lock-in, technology obsolescence, employee retention and training costs. Finally, it introduces some managed services and Software-as-a-Service offerings from Gestalt Gild.
This document discusses how companies can make advanced analytics work for them. It notes that companies using big data and analytics show 5-6% higher productivity. However, some companies struggle because they don't understand their existing data, programs are too complex, or insights aren't actionable. The document recommends that companies identify relevant data sources, build predictive analytics models, and transform their organization to make better decisions based on data and models. Managers must develop business-focused tools and exploit big data capabilities.
Forrester's consulting services for CIOs include advisory sessions, workshops, and projects to help optimize IT strategies. Services are grounded in Forrester's Playbook framework and can include conducting assessments, optimizing organizational design, selecting vendors, and benchmarking performance metrics. Forrester's consulting is distinguished by its depth of proprietary research, objective recommendations uninfluenced by commercial interests, and involvement of expert analyst resources.
5 Key Aspects of Information Technology Project Justification Ensono
In today’s IT world, alignment with business needs and leaders is crucial. Requesting investment in IT applications and or infrastructure is a challenging event. In the not too distant past, if the justification for an investment was that IT was going to reduce costs and get more efficient or provide a more stable environment, then you likely got approval.
Learn strategies on how to be successful at justifying your IT projects.
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The document discusses a plan to better define and promote the role of business analysts internally within an organization. It outlines six stages: 1) Define the BA role more clearly, 2) Create a portfolio of BA services, 3) Develop arguments for using internal BAs, 4) Increase professionalism by obtaining qualifications, 5) Create a marketing plan, and 6) Conduct presentations and discussions to promote BA services to managers and other stakeholders. The goal is to help business managers and analysts understand the BA function better so that internal analysts can be used more effectively rather than external consultants.
The document discusses how some companies have been able to rapidly adapt and grow in changing markets. It provides examples of a hotel company that drove a turnaround, an online gaming company that developed mega hits, and an energy company that drove cost reductions. It then notes that more traditional companies are scrambling to learn how to build the same agility as these new economy organizations. Finally, it outlines some commonalities of new economy companies that enable rapid adaptation, such as focusing governance on strategic enablement rather than risk avoidance, designing structures to kill bureaucracy and speed up decisions, and using central support functions as a strategic hub.
This document discusses several key considerations for outsourcing IT functions, including employee and management perceptions, social and political issues, reliability of outsourcing partners, suitability for individual business needs, and where to start the outsourcing process. It outlines areas of IT that are good candidates for outsourcing, such as non-core functions like vendor management and project monitoring. The document also covers outsourcing risks around lock-in, technology obsolescence, employee retention and training costs. Finally, it introduces some managed services and Software-as-a-Service offerings from Gestalt Gild.
This document discusses how companies can make advanced analytics work for them. It notes that companies using big data and analytics show 5-6% higher productivity. However, some companies struggle because they don't understand their existing data, programs are too complex, or insights aren't actionable. The document recommends that companies identify relevant data sources, build predictive analytics models, and transform their organization to make better decisions based on data and models. Managers must develop business-focused tools and exploit big data capabilities.
Forrester's consulting services for CIOs include advisory sessions, workshops, and projects to help optimize IT strategies. Services are grounded in Forrester's Playbook framework and can include conducting assessments, optimizing organizational design, selecting vendors, and benchmarking performance metrics. Forrester's consulting is distinguished by its depth of proprietary research, objective recommendations uninfluenced by commercial interests, and involvement of expert analyst resources.
5 Key Aspects of Information Technology Project Justification Ensono
In today’s IT world, alignment with business needs and leaders is crucial. Requesting investment in IT applications and or infrastructure is a challenging event. In the not too distant past, if the justification for an investment was that IT was going to reduce costs and get more efficient or provide a more stable environment, then you likely got approval.
Learn strategies on how to be successful at justifying your IT projects.
to earn easy passively? from 10 to 25% per month on the risk-free deposit with 2 capital insurances and many other benefits and bonuses ... are you curious? sign up and dedicate time and energy.
https://magic-trading.eu/MT421428
The document discusses a plan to better define and promote the role of business analysts internally within an organization. It outlines six stages: 1) Define the BA role more clearly, 2) Create a portfolio of BA services, 3) Develop arguments for using internal BAs, 4) Increase professionalism by obtaining qualifications, 5) Create a marketing plan, and 6) Conduct presentations and discussions to promote BA services to managers and other stakeholders. The goal is to help business managers and analysts understand the BA function better so that internal analysts can be used more effectively rather than external consultants.
The document discusses how some companies have been able to rapidly adapt and grow in changing markets. It provides examples of a hotel company that drove a turnaround, an online gaming company that developed mega hits, and an energy company that drove cost reductions. It then notes that more traditional companies are scrambling to learn how to build the same agility as these new economy organizations. Finally, it outlines some commonalities of new economy companies that enable rapid adaptation, such as focusing governance on strategic enablement rather than risk avoidance, designing structures to kill bureaucracy and speed up decisions, and using central support functions as a strategic hub.
Defining the Business Relationship Manager Role within IT DepartmentsAnthony Draffin
The document proposes a new "business relationship manager" role to improve the relationship between business units and the IT department. These managers would address issues raised by each division and act as a liaison between the division and IT for feedback, assistance with projects, and ensuring appropriate IT services and compliance. The managers would use defined processes, tools, and information and require a mix of business and technical skills to understand division needs and help design new services.
The document discusses how companies can make advanced analytics work for them. It provides several guides for managers, including identifying the right data sources, building simple analytics models focused on business goals, and developing tools everyone can understand. While acquiring big data is important, companies must transform their culture and capabilities to develop business-relevant analytics that can optimize outcomes. Executing analytics properly requires a flexible approach and cultural shift within the organization.
Mako Consulting Group Business OverviewKevin Kocis
The document summarizes Mako Consulting Group's services for helping companies successfully integrate acquisitions and mergers. Mako helps clients address common integration challenges like cultural issues, lack of planning and resources, and lack of transparency. It provides advisory services, helps develop integration roadmaps and playbooks, and executes integrations. Mako's founder has over 15 years of experience leading integrations at GE Healthcare and completing over 100 due diligences and 50 integrations.
7 reasons Business Intelligence Self-AssessmentRuud Hövelings
This document outlines 7 reasons why business intelligence self-assessment is crucial for organizational performance. It provides an overview of business intelligence self-assessment as a methodology to establish concrete proposals to improve an organization's business intelligence environment based on maturity perspectives and measurement. The self-assessment allows organizations to align their strategy with business intelligence, monitor progress towards goals, benchmark against others, and get clear proposals for improvement with only a 20 minute time commitment per participant.
The document discusses the role of a business analyst (BA). It states that a BA is a valuable person able to function competently in diverse roles due to their broad background and diverse skill set. A BA can understand business from different perspectives as well as the technological side. The key skills of a BA include business planning, systems analysis, project management, subject expertise, organization analysis, financial analysis, technology architecture, data analysis, application analysis, application design, and process analysis. Central BA roles involve business analysis planning, elicitation, requirements management, communication, enterprise analysis, requirements analysis, solution assessment, and validation. A BA helps stakeholders achieve a shared understanding of organizational needs to make recommendations and move the organization forward.
The document discusses how companies can make advanced analytics work for them by overcoming problems and fully exploiting data. It recommends that companies 1) identify multiple data sources and manage the data, 2) build advanced analytics models, and 3) transform their organization. It also stresses having a clear data strategy and the right technology. Managers are advised to develop business analytics, embed tools for front lines, and build big data capabilities.
Exploring the Marriage between Organizational Change Management & Project Man...Vanessa Young
This document summarizes a presentation about the relationship between organizational change management and project management. It begins with shocking statistics about high project failure rates. It then discusses how human performance factors contribute significantly to results. The importance of organizational change management is explored, and it is noted that change management is about more than just training. Key aspects of change management like change strategy and alignment, communication, and stakeholder management are identified as being important for project success. Finally, it is emphasized that integrated change management and program management are essential for successful project delivery and preparation of stakeholders for the future state.
Companies face complexity and confusion with analytics that prevents discovering real opportunities. To simplify, companies should accelerate data through a hybrid technology environment to create fast data, insights, and outcomes. They should also delegate work to analytics technologies like business intelligence, data discovery, machine learning, and cognitive computing. Finally, companies need an outcome-driven mindset to pave individual paths to insight through hypothesis-based or discovery-based approaches depending on their problem and knowledge, and then make data-driven decisions.
Analysing People - Our Journey to turn HR into a Data Driven DepartmentHPCC Systems
From the 2017 HPCC Systems Community Day:
XpertHR is the leading online resource for employment law, HR good practice, salary data and job benchmarking. Launched in 2002, the business operates in the UK, US and Netherlands.
Building on decades of experience analysing pay through our salary surveys product and HR data through our benchmarking surveys, we have been developing a cloud based people analytics product, using HPCC technology. This new product launch will harness the power of analytics to help HR departments to reduce unwanted turnover, optimise their people management and ultimately drive business success. We are currently finalising our beta product which focuses on retention of employees and we are looking to be selling to our existing customer base by the end of this year.
In this session we will take you through our journey, from discovering a customer need and problem, to using HPCC to develop a working prototype. We will outline why we chose to use HPCC, the challenges we had to overcome and how we have used its power to create first class analytics. We will also touch on the future vision for the product and will show you what the product looks like thus far.
Charlotte Vlaarkamp
Commercial Product Manager, Reed Business Information
Charlotte Vlaarkamp is commercial product manager at XpertHR, responsible for data services which includes the people analytics innovation. She has over 10 years’ experience of working in media and information companies, in a range of functions including research, consumer insight, customer analytics and more recently in product management. She has been working at RELX Group for 3 years.
Matt Holmes
Senior Director of Technology, XpertHR, RBI
Matt Holmes is the senior solutions architect at XpertHR and has been with the RELX Group for 10 years. Matt has a proven 10 years+ experience in commercial software development across management, architecture and delivery functions. With a passion for delivering solutions that meet market needs and delight customers.
Using an Evidence-Based Learning Strategy to Win Hearts and MindsLaura Overton
Ruth Stuart (L&D Research Advisor, CIPD) and Laura Overton (Managing Director, Towards Maturity) look at how L&D leaders can use evidence to win the hearts and minds of business stakeholders, align more effectively with business needs, demonstrate value and improve their own performance.
This was first shared at tthe CIPD L&D Show in May 2015 and a resource pack of useful evidence sources is also available. Contact us if you would like a copy of the evidence resources.
www.towardsmaturity.org/benchmark
www.cipd.co.uk
MHR Analytics Summit 2018 | The Data Journey - Laura TimmsMHR Analytics
MHR Analytics is committed to helping every organisation use this mass of data to obtain actionable insights for real growth. Learn more about where you are on your data journey.
InfoMINING is a Colorado LLC established in 2009 that focuses on providing financial analysis, benchmarking, and executive software reporting solutions for healthcare and blood banking companies. It uses data analytics to provide business insights and key performance indicators (KPIs) to help executives make faster, more precise decisions. InfoMINING offers services such as financial gap analysis, balanced scorecard consulting, and executive dashboard software to measure KPIs and monitor systems and processes. Its donorMINING software is tailored for the blood banking industry.
Course5 & Lenovo: Analytics driven Digital Trading DeskCourse5i
Course5 Intelligence helps organizations drive digital transformation through analytics and artificial intelligence. It builds capabilities for clients to make strategic and tactical decisions regarding customers, markets, and competition. Course5 recognizes the importance of customer centricity, innovation, and empowerment. Lenovo established an analytics-driven digital trading desk to orchestrate partnerships, data, technology, analytics, and teams to improve marketing, customer experience, and business performance in response to trends of the digital generation. The desk enables strategic alignment, experimentation, and personalized experiences across channels.
How SMBs in the UK are embracing social media [2015 Research]LinkedIn Europe
SMBs are driving Europe back to growth, and relying on social media to help them do it. Here’s how to put together a winning social strategy to reach them.
Jeremy Adamson: Minding the Machines: Building and Leading Analytics Data Sci...Edunomica
Jeremy Adamson: Minding the Machines: Building and Leading Analytics Data Science Teams
Data Science Online Camp 2021
Website - https://dscamp.org/
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeHtPZ_ZLZ-nHFMUCXY81RQ/featured
FB - https://www.facebook.com/Data-Science-Camp-103012708431833
Derrick P. Legg has over 12 years of experience in credit analysis and collections, providing excellent customer service. He has a track record of maintaining high accuracy rates and facilitating positive team environments. Most recently, he served as a Credit Analyst II for Boise Incorporated, where he oversaw accounts worth $52 million monthly and helped increase the company's percent of current accounts to 89.2% within two years.
The Solution To The Top 10 Problems Keeping Ce Os Awake At NightWilliam Hultquist
The document outlines a strategic management process for CEOs consisting of 3 focal points: mission/vision/competitive advantage, external assessment, and internal assessment. It then details developing a strategic plan through objectives/initiatives/goals, implementing the plan, measuring results from stakeholders, and continuing improvement cycles to achieve outcomes like satisfied stakeholders, delighted customers, and motivated workforces.
Q2 Strategies Process Optimization OfferingAlex Chinn
Q2 Strategies partners with firms to maximize their profit potential through data analytics, process optimization, and coaching services. They use both quantitative and qualitative methods like Lean Six Sigma to identify opportunities for improved efficiency. Their offerings include process mapping, metrics development, training, and facilitating process improvements. The ultimate goal is to help clients recover profits being left on the table through optimization.
The document discusses creating a perfect customer experience through an integrated approach combining social media, thought leadership, and online service design. It provides an example of a customer named Dave who has a positive experience engaging with a brand across various online and in-store touchpoints, becoming an advocate. This level of engagement can provide significant lifetime value from repeat purchases and referrals. The document advocates designing customer experiences and touchpoints based on understanding lifetime value and how experiences compare to competitors. It also discusses developing thought leadership by integrating brand essence with innovation and delivering insights through strategic communications across channels designed for dialogue. Finally, it addresses whether social media represents hype or hope for businesses.
Greater Miami Jewish Federation - Social Media PresentationGeorgianne Brown
The document discusses how social media is important for businesses and provides recommendations for setting up a social media presence. It recommends setting up profiles and pages on key social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and having a company blog. It also discusses how to engage audiences on these channels and integrate social media with other online and offline efforts. Tracking engagement and results is important to measure the impact of social media activities.
Defining the Business Relationship Manager Role within IT DepartmentsAnthony Draffin
The document proposes a new "business relationship manager" role to improve the relationship between business units and the IT department. These managers would address issues raised by each division and act as a liaison between the division and IT for feedback, assistance with projects, and ensuring appropriate IT services and compliance. The managers would use defined processes, tools, and information and require a mix of business and technical skills to understand division needs and help design new services.
The document discusses how companies can make advanced analytics work for them. It provides several guides for managers, including identifying the right data sources, building simple analytics models focused on business goals, and developing tools everyone can understand. While acquiring big data is important, companies must transform their culture and capabilities to develop business-relevant analytics that can optimize outcomes. Executing analytics properly requires a flexible approach and cultural shift within the organization.
Mako Consulting Group Business OverviewKevin Kocis
The document summarizes Mako Consulting Group's services for helping companies successfully integrate acquisitions and mergers. Mako helps clients address common integration challenges like cultural issues, lack of planning and resources, and lack of transparency. It provides advisory services, helps develop integration roadmaps and playbooks, and executes integrations. Mako's founder has over 15 years of experience leading integrations at GE Healthcare and completing over 100 due diligences and 50 integrations.
7 reasons Business Intelligence Self-AssessmentRuud Hövelings
This document outlines 7 reasons why business intelligence self-assessment is crucial for organizational performance. It provides an overview of business intelligence self-assessment as a methodology to establish concrete proposals to improve an organization's business intelligence environment based on maturity perspectives and measurement. The self-assessment allows organizations to align their strategy with business intelligence, monitor progress towards goals, benchmark against others, and get clear proposals for improvement with only a 20 minute time commitment per participant.
The document discusses the role of a business analyst (BA). It states that a BA is a valuable person able to function competently in diverse roles due to their broad background and diverse skill set. A BA can understand business from different perspectives as well as the technological side. The key skills of a BA include business planning, systems analysis, project management, subject expertise, organization analysis, financial analysis, technology architecture, data analysis, application analysis, application design, and process analysis. Central BA roles involve business analysis planning, elicitation, requirements management, communication, enterprise analysis, requirements analysis, solution assessment, and validation. A BA helps stakeholders achieve a shared understanding of organizational needs to make recommendations and move the organization forward.
The document discusses how companies can make advanced analytics work for them by overcoming problems and fully exploiting data. It recommends that companies 1) identify multiple data sources and manage the data, 2) build advanced analytics models, and 3) transform their organization. It also stresses having a clear data strategy and the right technology. Managers are advised to develop business analytics, embed tools for front lines, and build big data capabilities.
Exploring the Marriage between Organizational Change Management & Project Man...Vanessa Young
This document summarizes a presentation about the relationship between organizational change management and project management. It begins with shocking statistics about high project failure rates. It then discusses how human performance factors contribute significantly to results. The importance of organizational change management is explored, and it is noted that change management is about more than just training. Key aspects of change management like change strategy and alignment, communication, and stakeholder management are identified as being important for project success. Finally, it is emphasized that integrated change management and program management are essential for successful project delivery and preparation of stakeholders for the future state.
Companies face complexity and confusion with analytics that prevents discovering real opportunities. To simplify, companies should accelerate data through a hybrid technology environment to create fast data, insights, and outcomes. They should also delegate work to analytics technologies like business intelligence, data discovery, machine learning, and cognitive computing. Finally, companies need an outcome-driven mindset to pave individual paths to insight through hypothesis-based or discovery-based approaches depending on their problem and knowledge, and then make data-driven decisions.
Analysing People - Our Journey to turn HR into a Data Driven DepartmentHPCC Systems
From the 2017 HPCC Systems Community Day:
XpertHR is the leading online resource for employment law, HR good practice, salary data and job benchmarking. Launched in 2002, the business operates in the UK, US and Netherlands.
Building on decades of experience analysing pay through our salary surveys product and HR data through our benchmarking surveys, we have been developing a cloud based people analytics product, using HPCC technology. This new product launch will harness the power of analytics to help HR departments to reduce unwanted turnover, optimise their people management and ultimately drive business success. We are currently finalising our beta product which focuses on retention of employees and we are looking to be selling to our existing customer base by the end of this year.
In this session we will take you through our journey, from discovering a customer need and problem, to using HPCC to develop a working prototype. We will outline why we chose to use HPCC, the challenges we had to overcome and how we have used its power to create first class analytics. We will also touch on the future vision for the product and will show you what the product looks like thus far.
Charlotte Vlaarkamp
Commercial Product Manager, Reed Business Information
Charlotte Vlaarkamp is commercial product manager at XpertHR, responsible for data services which includes the people analytics innovation. She has over 10 years’ experience of working in media and information companies, in a range of functions including research, consumer insight, customer analytics and more recently in product management. She has been working at RELX Group for 3 years.
Matt Holmes
Senior Director of Technology, XpertHR, RBI
Matt Holmes is the senior solutions architect at XpertHR and has been with the RELX Group for 10 years. Matt has a proven 10 years+ experience in commercial software development across management, architecture and delivery functions. With a passion for delivering solutions that meet market needs and delight customers.
Using an Evidence-Based Learning Strategy to Win Hearts and MindsLaura Overton
Ruth Stuart (L&D Research Advisor, CIPD) and Laura Overton (Managing Director, Towards Maturity) look at how L&D leaders can use evidence to win the hearts and minds of business stakeholders, align more effectively with business needs, demonstrate value and improve their own performance.
This was first shared at tthe CIPD L&D Show in May 2015 and a resource pack of useful evidence sources is also available. Contact us if you would like a copy of the evidence resources.
www.towardsmaturity.org/benchmark
www.cipd.co.uk
MHR Analytics Summit 2018 | The Data Journey - Laura TimmsMHR Analytics
MHR Analytics is committed to helping every organisation use this mass of data to obtain actionable insights for real growth. Learn more about where you are on your data journey.
InfoMINING is a Colorado LLC established in 2009 that focuses on providing financial analysis, benchmarking, and executive software reporting solutions for healthcare and blood banking companies. It uses data analytics to provide business insights and key performance indicators (KPIs) to help executives make faster, more precise decisions. InfoMINING offers services such as financial gap analysis, balanced scorecard consulting, and executive dashboard software to measure KPIs and monitor systems and processes. Its donorMINING software is tailored for the blood banking industry.
Course5 & Lenovo: Analytics driven Digital Trading DeskCourse5i
Course5 Intelligence helps organizations drive digital transformation through analytics and artificial intelligence. It builds capabilities for clients to make strategic and tactical decisions regarding customers, markets, and competition. Course5 recognizes the importance of customer centricity, innovation, and empowerment. Lenovo established an analytics-driven digital trading desk to orchestrate partnerships, data, technology, analytics, and teams to improve marketing, customer experience, and business performance in response to trends of the digital generation. The desk enables strategic alignment, experimentation, and personalized experiences across channels.
How SMBs in the UK are embracing social media [2015 Research]LinkedIn Europe
SMBs are driving Europe back to growth, and relying on social media to help them do it. Here’s how to put together a winning social strategy to reach them.
Jeremy Adamson: Minding the Machines: Building and Leading Analytics Data Sci...Edunomica
Jeremy Adamson: Minding the Machines: Building and Leading Analytics Data Science Teams
Data Science Online Camp 2021
Website - https://dscamp.org/
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeHtPZ_ZLZ-nHFMUCXY81RQ/featured
FB - https://www.facebook.com/Data-Science-Camp-103012708431833
Derrick P. Legg has over 12 years of experience in credit analysis and collections, providing excellent customer service. He has a track record of maintaining high accuracy rates and facilitating positive team environments. Most recently, he served as a Credit Analyst II for Boise Incorporated, where he oversaw accounts worth $52 million monthly and helped increase the company's percent of current accounts to 89.2% within two years.
The Solution To The Top 10 Problems Keeping Ce Os Awake At NightWilliam Hultquist
The document outlines a strategic management process for CEOs consisting of 3 focal points: mission/vision/competitive advantage, external assessment, and internal assessment. It then details developing a strategic plan through objectives/initiatives/goals, implementing the plan, measuring results from stakeholders, and continuing improvement cycles to achieve outcomes like satisfied stakeholders, delighted customers, and motivated workforces.
Q2 Strategies Process Optimization OfferingAlex Chinn
Q2 Strategies partners with firms to maximize their profit potential through data analytics, process optimization, and coaching services. They use both quantitative and qualitative methods like Lean Six Sigma to identify opportunities for improved efficiency. Their offerings include process mapping, metrics development, training, and facilitating process improvements. The ultimate goal is to help clients recover profits being left on the table through optimization.
The document discusses creating a perfect customer experience through an integrated approach combining social media, thought leadership, and online service design. It provides an example of a customer named Dave who has a positive experience engaging with a brand across various online and in-store touchpoints, becoming an advocate. This level of engagement can provide significant lifetime value from repeat purchases and referrals. The document advocates designing customer experiences and touchpoints based on understanding lifetime value and how experiences compare to competitors. It also discusses developing thought leadership by integrating brand essence with innovation and delivering insights through strategic communications across channels designed for dialogue. Finally, it addresses whether social media represents hype or hope for businesses.
Greater Miami Jewish Federation - Social Media PresentationGeorgianne Brown
The document discusses how social media is important for businesses and provides recommendations for setting up a social media presence. It recommends setting up profiles and pages on key social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and having a company blog. It also discusses how to engage audiences on these channels and integrate social media with other online and offline efforts. Tracking engagement and results is important to measure the impact of social media activities.
“The role of the CIO as a business leader is to drive
business value. It is imperative that CIOs leverage
social networks and create actionable knowledge.”
This document provides guidance on developing a social media strategy. It discusses why a social media strategy is important, what it should include, and how to develop it. A social media strategy should describe the current state, objectives for social media use, and a roadmap. Developing the strategy involves assessing current activities, creating a vision, roadmapping next steps, and launching the strategy. The document also includes an appendix with questions to assess a company's "corporate active listening" abilities.
Digital Channel Business Plan Overview 23 11 09Cargotec
This document introduces the role and purpose of a Digital Channel Business Plan. It defines a Digital Channel Business Plan as an actionable document that outlines an organization's future vision for its digital channels and a development roadmap. The summary develops a Digital Channel Business Plan in four phases: analyzing the current state, defining a vision and target state, developing a roadmap and execution plan, and executing the roadmap. It explains that a Digital Channel Business Plan provides value by integrating an organization's strategy with user needs and available technologies to guide digital channel development.
The document outlines key skills for students in using technology including creativity and innovation, communication and collaboration, research and information fluency, critical thinking and problem solving, digital citizenship, and technology operation and concepts. Some example skills are applying knowledge to generate new ideas, interacting and publishing with others using digital tools, locating and analyzing information from various sources, identifying and solving authentic problems, practicing safe and responsible technology use, and understanding and troubleshooting technology systems.
IT Strategy Assessment & Optimization - Catallysts ApproachRajanish Dass
The document discusses optimizing an organization's IT strategy through a 3-step approach:
1) Assess the business and IT context to identify opportunities for improvement.
2) Attain optimal alignment between business and IT to move towards business growth and higher IT effectiveness.
3) Evolve the IT strategy to deliver long-term growth by addressing key areas like the operating model and performance measures.
The document discusses the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in Indian organizations. It notes that CIOs typically spend 60-70% of their time focused on technology and the remaining 30% on interpreting technology to implement business decisions. Successful CIOs are seen as enabling innovation, focusing on business imperatives, and building a shared vision of IT's role in supporting the organization's goals. The relationship between the CIO and the CEO is also important, as the CEO's vision of IT's strategic role affects how the CIO can add value to the business.
The document discusses developing a business-driven IT strategy using a capabilities approach. It outlines a 5-step approach to 1) identify business imperatives and capabilities, 2) determine required IT capabilities and gaps, 3) create an IT strategy roadmap, 4) realign IT spending, and 5) define the target IT architecture. This approach helps ensure IT investments are aligned with business priorities and maximize their impact. The document also provides examples of how this approach was applied at a power utility to transform customer service delivery.
The document discusses the evolving role of business analysts from a past focus on requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation to a current and future focus on enterprise analysis, strategic planning and ensuring business value throughout the project lifecycle. It notes that business analysts now help organizations improve processes, reduce costs and better support customers. The role requires skills in both business and technical domains to effectively communicate between teams.
Info-Tech Research Group provides research and advice on IT issues. They have a methodology for developing an IT strategy in 8 steps that involves determining the scope, assessing the current state of IT and business drivers, developing a target vision, defining initiatives, building a roadmap, executing the plan, and reviewing progress. Their process is grounded in established frameworks and is designed to ensure business needs are understood and the strategy delivers value. Info-Tech can help organizations develop an effective strategy by gathering diagnostic data, overcoming common barriers, and tailoring the approach based on an organization's size and needs.
2008 Business Analystthe Pivotal Role Of The Future 2 1214327785520885 9DOUGGOLDBERG
The document summarizes the key role of business analysts in ensuring project success. It discusses how historically many projects have failed due to poor requirements gathering and management. It outlines the changing role of BAs to focus on strategic alignment and business value. BAs need a variety of skills related to both business and technical domains. With the right skills development and organizational support, BAs can help drive more successful projects and strategy execution.
The Business Analyst: The Pivotal Role Of The FutureTom Humbarger
This presentation was originally made at the Silicon Valley IIBA Chapter meeting in June 2008 by Kathleen (Kitty) Hass from Management Concepts (www.managementconcepts.com). Kitty is also a new board member at-large for the IIBA.
Business Analyst the pivotal role of the futurepatelpritesh
The document discusses the evolving role of the business analyst (BA) from a project-focused role to a more strategic role. It notes that BAs are increasingly expected to perform enterprise analysis, strategic planning, and business architecture work. The strategic BA helps drive strategic alignment by performing activities like opportunity analysis, business case development, and benefits measurement. This elevates the BA role from requirements gathering to helping execute organizational strategy through projects.
One of the most daunting challenges organizations face in making decisions on what technology is needed to fully enable the business to achieve its strategy and objectives. The key is ALIGNMENT.
E2 Virtual Conf 2010 slides "Accelerating Business Performance with Enterpris...Sovos Group
This document discusses how organizations can accelerate business performance through enterprise 2.0 approaches and social/collaborative technologies. It defines enterprise 2.0 as improving discrete outcomes by including customers, employees, partners and suppliers in business processes. The document also discusses setting up for performance acceleration by focusing on objectives, designing for participation, and accounting for change management. It claims enterprise 2.0 can drive revenue, reduce costs, and lower risks.
Key role of business analysis in project successAbid Khan
The document discusses the importance of effective business analysis in ensuring project success and delivering business value. Business analysis is key to building a bridge between business needs and IT solutions. Weaknesses in business analysis capabilities are often the root cause of project failures because business needs are not properly understood or met. Adopting a consistent approach to business analysis can help align solutions to business needs and increase business value.
Cinco consejos de los expertos Cutter (Cuitláhuac Osorio)Software Guru
Cuitláhuac Osorio forma parte del consorcio Cutter donde nos habla de cómo hacer que las TI importen y que funcionen.
Además, nos comparte 5 consejos de los expertos.
The document outlines the lecture schedule and content for a course on information systems and strategic management. It discusses key topics like strategic alignment techniques, eBusiness, knowledge management, and protecting IT assets. It also covers strategic alignment maturity levels and models, the importance of alignment between business and IT strategies, and processes for assessing strategic alignment.
This document outlines Kiran Patil's presentation on roles in the IT and ITES industries. The agenda includes discussing different roles Patil has held in their career, roles available in IT, how non-IT and IT professionals can obtain these roles, leveraging an MBA for these roles, common interview types and questions, and tips for interview preparation. Key roles discussed include delivery manager, project manager, business analyst, strategy program manager, consultant, and sales/account management roles. The presentation emphasizes playing to strengths, tailoring CVs and narratives to roles, highlighting business perspectives from an MBA, connecting with business stakeholders, and focusing on tangible business outcomes.
According to Gartner, "The stongest performing IT organizations are distinguished by strong strategy practices. The weak performing IT organizations are distinguished by weak delivery practices."
Having an IT strategy and executing it are important.
This brief presentation covers:
1. Why IT Strategy?
2. What does a great IT Strategy look like?
3. How to create a great IT Strategy
4. How to make the IT Strategy real
This document discusses aligning IT strategy with business goals. It emphasizes reviewing strategic plans to identify how technology can help achieve goals like becoming a leading home health provider. IT and business strategies should complement each other through collaborative development. Data is collected from staff through surveys and interviews to identify themes like competitiveness. Linking IT performance to business metrics allows evaluating each unit's contributions to overall value. Value-based management and key performance indicators can help consider IT a vital business player.
Business Architecture is a multi dimensional discipline primarily focused on organizational structure and performance in terms of business strategy, business functions, capabilities, roles and their relationships. Implementing and executing Business Strategy goals is among Business Architecture’s focus areas.
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Ever struggled with the question of, What is the Value of Enterprise Architecture? In this webinar, Michael Fulton, experienced architect and President, CC&C Americas will share his perspective on EA and the value it provides to the CIO, to IT and to the business.
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Key Questions
• Is IT engaged with corporate strategy and investment planning?
• Does the IT propose new products, services and processes?
• Is there a clear linkage of IT strategy to the business strategy?
CXOs and Business Executives:
If the answer to any of the questions below is ‘No’, then you are not
getting the most out of your IT organization.
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Attributes of Strategic Partnership
• Focus on business outcomes and results.
Business Focused
• Formulate integrated strategies collaboratively amongst stakeholders.
Collaborative Dynamic
• Proactively engage in discussions to advance business objectives.
Proactive Relationship
• Cultivate an environment based on transparency and trust will follow.
Transparency & Trust
• Serve as a change agent to help the business evolve.
Embrace Change
• Understand market landscape and competitors.
Market & Competitive Awareness
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How to Get There?
What are the tactics to get to this
strategic partner state of maturity?
Learn & Prepare
Identify where you are on the maturity scale.
Learn the language of your business.
Learn the key metrics driving your business.
Understand the business strategy.
Engage & Collaborate
Discuss how IT can fuel business growth.
Solve a problem for a quick win.
Measure & report performance in business terms.
Promote continuous dialogue and innovation.
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