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Enterprise Architecture Consulting Practice: Aligning IT With Business Strategy
Enterprise Architecture Consulting Practice: Aligning IT With Business Strategy
Enterprise Architecture Consulting Practice: Aligning IT With Business Strategy
Client
Leading Indian Steel Producer Leading Airlines
Engagement
IT Strategy & Planning Aligning IT Strategy
Resulting Value
Defined 3 Year IT Plan, Roadmap Budget and Organization Structure Developed IT Plan to aligned IT strategy with business strategy
Worlds Leading Inspection,Verification, Testing and Certification Company Leading Middle East Telecom Operator
IT Strategy
Defining target IT organization structure, IT governance structure and processes, enterprise architecture and IT processes Established an overall framework for IT investments which is integrated with companys business direction and supports value proposition as expected by various stakeholders Re-architected Internet Platform, Increased Internet Sales volume by improving speed to market and user experience by reengineer existing Internet platform. 480% Increase in policies bound online / month, 25% Improvements in Time to complete Quote,10% Improvements in Quote Completion Ratio Portal Consolidation of 160 sites, Single Content Management System with over 250 users via Internet. Managing over 16 third party service providers, including hosting
Legacy Modernization
E-Business Strategy
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Engage: The phase involves analyzing the current state of EA and defining target enterprise
IT is no longer just a support function; it is fast becoming a business enabler and driver for business innovation. IT enables business transformation and at the same time provides competitive advantage and differentiation. Business expects IT to stay continually aligned with the business strategy and future business demands.IT Strategy product addresses helps prepare IT plan to adapt to the changing business demand and strategic objectives. It helps in setting guidelines and prioritizing future IT investment, defining to-be governance structure, processes and enterprise architecture (business architecture, application & data architecture, technology architecture) and roadmap for next 2-3 years of planning cycle.
architecture. IT Governance structure and mechanisms, and the IT roadmap and implementation plan is also defined in this phase. Recommendations and roadmap is reviewed with stakeholders.
Enable: The phase involves documenting processes and recommendation for IT governance
structures, enterprise IT technology and processes and performing knowledge transfer by organizing workshops for IT.
Ensure: The phase involves reviewing strategy engagement deliverables with respect to intended
VALUE PROPOSITION
Wipro Consulting Services IT Strategy is a productized offering that helps in systematic assessment of current IT structure, processes and technology and defines to-be IT structure, processes and technology in alignment with business objective. It entails
Current State Assessment: Current state assessment helps analyze how well IT (organization,
and obtaining sign-off and discussing future involvement for executing IT strategy.
process, technology) meets the current business requirements, and whether and to what extent is it ready scalable, flexible, agile to meet future business demands and initiatives. The assessment leads to insights into rationalization and optimization opportunities in IT.
IT Strategy Development: IT Strategy for the organization/department/function is developed
for acquiring necessary capabilities to meet business demand based on the business strategy and current state assessment findings. Opportunities for innovation in IT are also explored to deliver business benefits. At the same time, the process to refresh and realign the strategy is also documented and delivered.
Architecture Definition: Enterprise Architecture (EA) to-be enterprise IT blueprint consisting
business, information, applications and technology architecture, is defined using an industry standard framework.The processes pertaining to establishing architecture principles, refreshing and reviewing EA and its governance and maturity assessment and improvement are documented.
IT Roadmap: IT roadmap shows the investments required by IT in terms of new capability and
programs to be executed over short, medium and long term duration based on business priorities. These initiatives could consist of one or more of new asset acquisition, enhancement, optimization, alignment of processes, consolidation of infrastructure or development of new system etc.
IT Governance: IT governance provides the framework and structure that governs allocation of
IT resources to enterprise goals and strategies. Furthermore, IT governance institutionalizes best practices for planning, acquiring, implementing, and monitoring IT performance in order to ensure that the enterprise's IT assets support its business objectives.We help IT organization to establish program governance mechanisms to help plan and manage programs controlling cost and risk and aligning outcomes with business objectives using metrics for performance and value measurements. This is to help assess and ensure that the intended value is indeed achieved.
ENGAGEMENT APPROACH
Envision: The phase involves conducting executive level discussions to understand priorities,
ensuring comprehensiveness of scope of assessment and identifying key stakeholders. A kick-off meeting/workshop is conducted.
Evolve: The phase involves gathering information through interviews, questionnaires and data
gathering templates; about business requirements, IT capabilities and business IT alignment. Performance metrics for the project are defined.