This new world of technology presents an unprecedented opportunity for executives to enhance IT’s value across the enterprise. ReThink IT analyzes the five most disruptive trends in IT, and addresses the issues and challenges faced by today’s CIO and IT leaders. These disruptive trends point to a new role for IT and the CIO, and the fact that IT responsibilities have moved into the business makes the role of services integrator and advisor to the business the primary focus of the CIO.

1. UNDERSTANDING THE
NEW WORLD OF IT
Five Actionable Strategies
to Drive Business Value from IT

2. FIVE DISRUPTIVE TRENDS
DRIVING IT TRANSFORMATION
Responsibility for IT is Moving to the Business
Convergence of ITO and BPO
Social, Big Data, Mobility, and Analytics
Commoditization of IT and Global Delivery
Consumerization of IT

3. RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT IS
MOVING TO THE BUSINESS
Easy to procure & run software
and the consumerization of IT
have changed the value
the IT department can provide
to the business unit.

4. THE CONVERGENCE OF BUSINESS
PROCESS AND IT OUTSOURCING
New utility models allow companies
to outsource and bundle process,
technology, and people support into
one contract and price.

5. BIG DATA AND ANALYTICS
The huge volumes and variety
of data that reside within reach
of very large company’s systems,
and the need to turn these so-called
“Big Data” into insights.

6. SOCIAL
New social networks are constantly
being created, requiring a new
form of collaboration between IT
and the business.

7. MOBILITY
Produces an ongoing change
in the way employees work
and customers buy.

8. THE COMMODITIZATION OF IT
Cloud, as-a-service, remote
management and offshore
development are just a few ways
IT is becoming cheaper and
more efficient.

9. THE CONSUMERIZATION OF IT
Employees demand 24x7 access
to business information and
decision-making insights, on the
device that they choose.

10. FIVE ACTIONABLE STRATEGIES
TO DRIVE BUSINESS VALUE FROM IT
IT’S A NEW WORLD FOR IT
Business and IT executives and their staffs face a
far different world than their
predecessors did even ten years
ago. Companies that are early
adopters of these five disruptive
trends are managingthe issues
very differently.

11. STRATEGY #1
NEW IT SUPPLY CHAIN
Become an orchestrator and
integrator of IT services insourced
and outsourced around the globe.

12. STRATEGY #2
GOVERNANCE AND VENDOR MANAGEMENT
Establish both a holistic
governance strategy and a
vendor management organization.

13. STRATEGY #3
NEW IT ROLES, RESPONSIBILITIES AND SKILLS
► STRATEGIC PLANNING
► ARCHITECTURE PLANNING
► RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
► GOVERNANCE AND VENDOR
MANAGEMENT
► BUSINESS LEADERSHIP
► BUSINESS SYSTEMS AND
PROCESS THINKING
► INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE

14. STRATEGY #4
NEW WAY TO MANAGE IT SERVICES
AND PROJECT PORTFOLIO
Transform to the best practices of IT
Service Management (ITSM) and
portfolio analysis.

15. STRATEGY #5
NEW DEFINITION OF IT BUSINESS VALUE
Redefine the value that IT provides
from cost savings and operational
efficiency to strategic value and
revenue growth.

16. ABOUT WGROUP
Founded in 1995, WGroup is a boutique management
consulting firm that provides Strategy, Management and
Execution Services to optimize business performance,
minimize cost and create value.
Our consultants have years of experience both as industry
executives and trusted advisors to help clients think through
complicated and pressing challenges to drive their business
forward.
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