CIO By Request provides companies with IT strategy, vision, and technology enablement. It helps demystify IT and examine how organizations can benefit from mobile and cloud computing. The service focuses on creating business value by assessing key drivers and opportunities, determining ROI of new technologies, and creating roadmaps and measuring success of IT initiatives. Examples of value creation include improved manufacturing planning through ERP, reduced procurement costs via integration, enhanced sales through CRM, and big data analytics for real-time reporting.

1. CIO By Request
CIO By Request
&
Value Creation
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2. CIO By Request
Why CIO By Request
• Provide Companies with Information Technology Vision,
Strategy and Technology Enablement
• Provide practical problem analysis, including budget review,
technology architecture assessment and license agreement
review
• Demystify Information Technology, examining the business
benefits and impacts of new and emerging technology and
how your organization can capitalize on the benefits of
Mobile and Cloud computing
Its About The Business Needs and Value Drivers First, Technology
And Enablers Second!
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3. CIO By Request
Creating Business Value
 Provide CIO vision into global strategy
Strategic
development
Objectives
 IT Audit preparation & assessment
 Security & Compliance assessment
Key  ERP Package selection
Business  Organizational evaluation
Drivers  ERP, working capital optimization
 End to end process standardization
 Deliver tools/methodology to rapidly assimilate &
Potential
integrate strategic acquisitions
Enablers
 Turn data into strategic asset
 Provide insight into emerging technologies
 Asset and technical architecture optimization
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4. CIO By Request
The Steps to Creating Value
• Assess company portfolio and determine opportunities
• Determine what will make the biggest impact
• Assess the entire organizational readiness, IT, Executives
and Business users and sponsors
• Utilize vendor specific value lifecycle tools & support, i.e.
realize the value for maintenance fees paid
• Create a roadmap for value
• Execute on the roadmap
• Measure Success
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5. CIO By Request
Examples – Value Creation
• Manufacturing: Planning / Visibility
• Procurement: Discounts / Inventory
• Sales Effectiveness: CRM / Customer Experience and Web
• Shared Services: Efficiency / Real Time information
• Supply Chain: Integration / Visibility
• Master Data: Clean/Useful and Accurate
• Big Data: Real time Analytics for users
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Examples – Value Creation
Manufacturing: Planning/Visibility
• Improved down time due to reduced line stoppages and
stock out issues
• Increased throughput due to improved planning and
reduced down time and product changes
Procurement: Discounts/Inventory
• Reduction in costs due to improved purchasing knowledge
and discount negotiation
• Reduced inventory levels and as a result of integration
between inventory and procurement improving timely
purchases
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7. CIO By Request
Examples – Value Creation
Sales Effectiveness: CRM/Customer Experience
• Improved customer experience through real time customer information
• Increased sales with existing headcount due to improved data
availability and automation
Shared Services: Efficiency/Real Time Info
• Improved access to real time data allowing for better informed
decisions, e.g. product line profitability
• Enhanced employee satisfaction through real time self service
applications
Supply Chain: Integration/Visibility
• Improved visibility throughout the supply chain, specifically global
shipments, improving customer experience
• Improved working capital through integration of inventory,
manufacturing and procurement ensuring optimal inventory levels
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8. CIO By Request
Examples – Value Creation
Master Data: Clean/Useful and Accurate
• Improved decision making based on clean and accurate vendor,
materials and customer information
• Enables Customer, vendor and product segmentation
Big Data: Real time Analytics for users
• Enables real time reporting, i.e. Late vendor shipment impacts which
customer shipments; Backlog reporting, inventory segmentation, etc. all
enabled real time
• Reduces cost of analytics and on going support due to less data
replication
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