IT Strategy and Governance
The core component for effective IT management is a well-documented, pragmatic IT strategy.
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At NETCORE, we specialize in helping organizations match their vision with the appropriate technology architecture. We work closely with clients to develop a business services-based view of IT activity and set a direction for IT investments based on key business objectives, strategies and drivers.
Our IT Strategy approach focuses on ways to extract greater value out of the IT investment. The process includes:
- Clarifying the underlying operating principles for IT, to set a context for decision-making
- Building a practical strategy that provides statements of direction for the portfolio of systems and addresses issues around how basic IT processes for delivery, support, management and planning should be structured
- Defining an appropriate governance structure for IT
- Identifying the IT capabilities needed to support the systems portfolio as well as how these capabilities should be sourced
A Dynamic Approach to Managing IT
The IT Strategy is the foundation and is critical to development of an IT initiative prioritization process.
Developing an IT strategy is not just an exercise of describing the future. It must also address the political and strategic dimensions of where the IT organization is going. We structure our IT Strategy projects to emphasize a collaborative and iterative approach as well as using facilitated workshops that bring together business and IT stakeholders.
A defined strategy is not a static document but represents a dynamic process. It must be updated and refreshed as business and technology changes. To that end, we leave a repeatable process behind when we finish our projects so our clients can integrate the IT strategy process into their existing planning processes to ensure technology stays aligned with evolving business needs.