Protiviti’s strategy and alignment professionals maximize the value of IT by helping you develop an IT strategic plan that is fully aligned with the strategic goals of the business.
IT–business alignment is a perennial top management priority for CIOs1 but remains elusive. Contributing factors include
- Failure of the business to clearly communicate goals, strategy, and key success factors – only 36% of organizations do so2
- IT is not sufficiently educated on the business in general
- IT efforts are overly fragmented from pursuing too many “top” priorities
Whatever the various contributing factors to alignment failure, a fundamental prerequisite to successful alignment is recognizing there is no such thing as generic IT – you must verify you have the right type of IT organization for your type of company and business strategy. Barring that, no degree of IT-business alignment will bring success.
Protiviti’s IT Strategic Planning professionals use proven methodology and innovative tools to achieve IT–business strategic alignment. Using objective 3rd-party benchmarks, we establish mutual agreement about what type of IT organization you need to support the business strategy, and then help you create it. Using our IT Value Model, we help you articulate the value IT brings to the business, in business strategy terms. Using our innovative IT strategic planning tools, we help you design strategic plans that establish the correct priorities, stop unnecessary activities and spending, and maximize the value of the investment in IT. Throughout the process, we help you establish enduring and effective communication between IT and the business to ensure ongoing successful collaboration. Our services include:
- IT Strategic Planning
- IT Architecture Design and Implementation
- IT Benchmarking
- IT Governance
- IT Risk Management
1 See CIO Magazine 2010 State of the CIO Survey
2 See Kurt Milne, Laurie M. Orlov, Know Thy Self: Improving an IT organization’s ability to drive business success