Business/ICT alignment starts at the strategic level of your company: translating the business strategy into an ICT strategy, selecting and managing strategic project portfolio, implement the right governance structures.
One of your questions could be:
- Which projects are really strategic for my company?
- Which services should ICT provide?
- How can I better control and manage ICT?
- Do I have the right competencies to support my current and future ICT?
- How can I reduce ICT costs?
Audits
BeAligned audits and analyses your current strengths and weaknesses on Business/ICT alignment and formulates the actions for improvement. According to your needs we perform one of the following audits:
An Alignment Assessment is a combination of a survey combined and interviews. It combines the strengths of EFQM and COBIT. We highlight your Business/ICT alignment issues and detect opportunities for improvement.
Via a CIO Quick Scan we deliver a dashboard containing a portfolio of initiatives with clear prioritization criteria , we highlight the link between these projects & processes, subsequent benefits and the impact on the resource capacity and risks.
A COBIT assessment is a best practice tool to assess your IT Governance and processes. We analyse your current state of maturity and recommend actions for improvement towards a higher maturity scale. Our COBIT self-assessment tool is free of charge.
The 360° IT Inventory and Analysis is a BeAligned tool that we use to get a detailed view on your IT: applications, technology, infrastructure, IT budget and costs, organization, processes, competences and projects. On each of these dimensions we give you an analysis compared with benchmarks on staffing, costs, process maturity, technology direction, etc.
On top of the different types of IT assessment we often use the EFQM Assessment to audit the efficiency of your business organization. With this broader assessment we can identity improvements at the business side and particularly on business/ict alignment issues.
IT Strategy
Translating a Business Strategy into an IT Strategy and Project Portfolio are the first two steps in Business/ICT alignment. We assist you with the selection of the strategic project portfolio of your company.
Your Business Strategy, Project Portfolio and the IT market trends are the major three inputs of your IT Strategy. We help you to establish an IT strategy and IT plan or roadmap for the near future.
Governance
A good Business/ICT alignment requires good governance. To obtain this, several governance mechanisms need to be established along the life cycle of your company products and services.
BeAligned helps you to establish or enhance governance structures, such as:
- Portfolio Governance
- Product Governance
- Service Governance
- Architecture Governance
- Process Governance
Frameworks Integration
How do you get the best out of PMI, Prince2, CMMI, COBIT, ITIL, eTom, BPM, EA …? How does this all fit together?
BeAligned has experienced consultants in one or more of these best practices. We even help you to ensure they are well integrated in your company. Ask our consultants to show some customer cases where we have implemented integrated frameworks.
