CSC helps your company align its IT strategy and architecture directly with your business strategy so you can derive maximum benefit from your IT investment.
CSC’s approach to IT strategy development is shaped by several guiding principles:

• Align business strategy with business capabilities and IT capabilities
  
• Balance risk with control
  
• Embed business and IT agility
  
• Balance technology advances with organisational maturity
  
• Create IT strategy from the ‘top-down’ and the ‘bottom-up’, and rationalise at the capability level

CSC’s approach is to let your business vision govern the development of the IT strategy encompassing, for example, the business objectives, strategy, future business map and key performance measures. Once the business vision has been crystalised, an operating model is developed to support the implementation of this vision, and business and IT principles and policies are developed.

Other key inputs to the IT strategy development process include:

• IT burning issues
  
• Legacy systems and platforms
  
• Existing and new IT plans
  
• Emerging technologies
  
• The company’s culture

Companies tend to develop or review an IT strategy when:

• The future business direction of a company changes
  
• A merger or acquisition takes place
  
• Numerous business and IT initiatives require co-ordination and prioritisation
  
• They experience rapid growth
  
• IT budgets are limited and IT initiatives need to be prioritised according to key business objectives

Offerings

CSC’s three IT strategy consulting offerings are:

‘Fused’ IT-Business Strategy – which is applied to companies who believe that they are not getting tangible benefits from their IT investments, and/or whose IT governance structure is fragmented or ad-hoc, and/or whose business and technology teams are at odds.

Shared Services and Process Re-engineering - is appropriate for companies who:

• Need to define the role of a corporate centre given their business strategy, and what activities should be executed in the corporate centre, in business units and outsourced
  
• Need to understand if shared services can drive value in their company
  
• Need to define an effective IT governance model

IT Management for Mergers and Acquisitions - this offering is appropriate for companies who are engaged in merger or acquisition activities and need to align IT strategies across the merging operations.

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