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Delivering IT Value
1. Understanding Your Organization’s
IT Capabilities to Provide
Maximum Business Value
Mark T. Edmead
Email: mark@mteadvisors.com
web: http://www.mteadvisors.com
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2. The Impact of IT Capabilities
IT services, spending, and offerings should be in
alignment with the company’s capabilities
Business strategies and sources of competitive
advantage should be linked to IT services
Focus investments to extend corporate capabilities
while cut investments that do not support the
corporate initiatives
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3. IT Alignment to Business
Migrate IT spending from “keep lights on” activities
to investments to provide new business value
Align IT to emergent business priorities by developing
new operating, service delivery, and governance
models
To enhance and drive corporate capabilities align IT
skills, competencies, and training programs
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4. What Can You Do?
Identify business trends that have the most impact on
IT
Impact drivers include competitor’s actions, customer
needs and desires, and changes in regulatory
environment
Reevaluate IT services and compare to company’s
capabilities
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5. IT Project Initiatives
Rank each IT project initiative based on their strategic
importance and value potential
IT projects can fall in one of these four categories
Projects that keep the lights on
Project that refine processes
Projects that sustain the organization
Projects that help the organization grow
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6. In Summary
Insist that IT participates in high-level decisions
Focus on enabling corporate strategy
Understand how IT can enable the organization’s
capabilities
Not just find ways to cut cost
Help business identify the right capabilities
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7. Contact Information
Mark T. Edmead
Email: mark@mteadvisors.com
Web: http://www.mteadvisors.com
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