One of the services we offer is a Business to It Alignment plan and strategy.

What is Business IT Alignment?

Business/IT alignment is an ongoing process that will optimize the relational mechanisms between the business and IT organization by working on the IT effectiveness of the organization in order to maximise the business value from IT. The objective of B/I alignment is to establish a trusted relationship between the business and IT that allows for an innovation driven climate in which IT becomes a strategic enabler for business growth.

It consists of a framework in which processes, communications, IT functions and technology decision making are further synchronized and aligned to ensure a full integration of the business goals and objectives with the IT strategy.

In this day and age with companies needing to contain costs, IT requirements need to be reviewed. Often IT has moved away from supporting the prime business drivers and processes. There are many reasons for this, in the larger companies this can take the form of legacy systems that are expensive to maintain and have not grown with the business. In smaller companies it could be the over-capacity in the hardware or functionality in the systems that is not being used or even unnecessary licensing costs.

Too often we have seen that companies do not use their existing resources to maximum effect.

The wood has grown so thick, you can’t see the trees!

Our Business to IT Alignment (BTA) will map the existing business drivers to your existing IT infrastructure.

During this process will we map and prepare a “GAP” analysis of the difference between your business and IT.

IT needs to support your business and not the other way around.

This GAP report then becomes the main input to see what needs to be done to align the two entities together for maximize effect.

Once the BTA has been reviewed it is continually monitored to make sure the as the business grows, you can plan your technology to grow with it, so that you have no surprises.