BeAligned has built consulting services around 7 key alignment topics. We believe that Business and ICT should be harmonized by implementing best practices in the area of:
Our experts and programme managers guarantee that best practices in these areas are pragmatically implemented and coached in your organization.
Strategic Alignment
We obtain strategic alignment by translating the business strategy into a realistic ICT strategy and plan. We define and manage a strategic project portfolio, we set up proven best practice governance structures and we implement integrated business and ICT process frameworks.
Through proven assessments, BeAligned analyses the maturity, strengths and weaknesses of your organization, we recommend and implement the improvements. read more >>
Programme & Project Management
The first step in Business / IT alignment is to understand vision and mission and to formulate strategic and operational goals. These goals are translated into strategic projects and/or programmes. But how do you define them? How do you staff them? How do you settle prioritization conflicts? How do you realize those projects/programmes? And finally, how do you stop them properly?
Well structured and pragmatic management is the key answer to these questions. It enables you to control strategic and complex projects and programmes in an ever-changing environment. BeAligned has senior expertise in managing various projects and programmes. We have helped companies in different industry and government sectors, both in small and large enterprises. We pragmatically implement the best practices from Prince2 & PMI mixed with focus on “result”, “change” & “people”. read more >>
Requirements Management
ICT people have always struggled to manage the business requirements. Many mechanisms and techniques were introduced in the past. Often they ended up in complex methods and mutual misinterpretation of business and ICT people.
BeAligned introduces an end-to-end approach in Requirements Management. We start from an idea and end in the management of operational changes to ICT systems. We lift up requirements processes out of the product life cycle. We introduce lean mechanisms to manage business requirements. read more >>
Process & IT Architecture
Establishing the right Enterprise Architecture enhances profitability and time to market. It improves strategy execution and lowers IT costs. A better integration of business processes and business applications is crucial to a better Business/ICT alignment.
BeAligned uses proven methods, techniques and tools for documenting, analyzing and improving the business processes and IT architecture of your company. We establish the right governance structure for Enterprise Architecture. We select the best vendor solution and ensure that the complete solution becomes operational. read more >>
Content & Knowledge Management
Today’s enterprises have a concern to harvest their enterprise knowledge. A lot of knowledge is inside the head of people, in information, content (documents, images), in systems data. Only a few mechanisms or systems are in place to ensure that the right and valuable knowledge is accessible by the right people.
BeAligned analyses the knowledge domains that are crucial in your company. We set op mechanisms to ensure that crucial knowledge is documented, published and reported. We focus on the selection and pragmatic implementation of content management systems, integrated with existing systems such as an ERP or CRM. We implement and embed the knowledge management processes and responsibilities into your organization. read more >>
IT Service Management
IT Service Management is the delivery of customer-focused IT services with a process-oriented approach. BeAligned helps organizations with implementing and improving IT Service Management. In practice, we implement and improve (IT) processes, we train and coach employees in the new ways of working and we perform independent audits to ensure that objectives are actually reached.
For these types of assignments, BeAligned uses proven best practices, amongst which:
| ITIL V3: the world’s de facto international standard for IT Service Management | |
| Cobit 4.1: a widely known and internationally accepted control framework for IT Governance |
We combine these best practice frameworks in a pragmatic way, based on our experience from past successful projects. read more >>
Operational Alignment
We walk the talk as we talk the walk.
Being “resultants” instead of just “consultants”, we operate what we have designed. Our consultants temporarily take up (operational) roles after the implementation of new concepts to ensure that these concepts are working in the day-to-day practice. Until you have filled in your permanent positions, we provide you with project/programme managers, PMO managers, process owners, service managers, business analysts and enterprise architects.
Alternatively, we implement new or optimised methods in a "bottom-up" way. By filling in one of your management roles in PMO, projects/programmes, enterprise architecture or while we manage your service centre, we play an “example“-role. During such an assignment we introduce the best practices and teach/coach your employees. read more >>
