Executive Leadership Services
IT Strategy
Today technology can no longer be separated from business. The systems are so tightly integrated with the business functions that critical technology decisions can either enable or hobble an organization’s performance and growth. You need to ensure your IT organization is agile, effective and equipped to pivot when trends change so that you don’t get passed by the competition.
At 9Nation, we take a unique approach to Information Technology strategy. First we work with business leaders to understand the overarching strategic goals, and then determining which technological capabilities, systems and support you need to achieve them. For while IT should be an integral and potentially differentiating component of your business, the corporate strategy should turn the compass and be a guide for capital decisions.
For us, our IT strategy and planning work assist the CIO and Information Technology executives to position the technology department as an enabler for business strategy. We align multiple tools, documents and feedback to create a singular focus in the form of a vision and roadmap. These can then drive principles of the operating model that will efficiently support the rest of the firm.
However, alignment of IT initiatives to the business is just one area that will maximize value. Additional requests that are always on the top of IT Executives’ minds include:
1. Measurable IT Efficiency: How to Accomplish More with Less Resources
This comes in many forms, from delivering better capabilities or functionality to getting current applications out to the business faster and more reliably. Inevitably the selection of SaaS partners will allow for efficiencies to scale the fastest.
2. Enhance IT Quality
Provide an ever more reliable service by
– Early risk identification
– Prevention of issues all together
– Extreme mitigation speed of any problems that could hinder business effectiveness
3. Improve Customer Satisfaction
Improvement of both responsiveness and service quality reflect on the organization’s perceived image, both internally and externally.
4. Change Alignment
Respond effectively to change drivers such as Deal with market opportunities, regulatory demands, cost reduction pressures, or reorganization pain points.
We help our clients create a strategic advantage by building technology-enabled, agile operating systems and business models that are responsive to cloud services. Our cross-industry and cross-domain experience helps clients leverage the next wave of IT systems and services.