Process & Concept
IT is not an end in itself.
IT is the basis for digital products, service components and sales channels in the range of products offered by companies, and thus a crucial factor in their market strategies.
The share of digital elements on offer continues to see massive growth in all branches. In some sectors, such as the media and entertainment industry, together with many areas of banking and financial services, value adding chains are almost completely dependent on IT. Production, sales, order processing, distribution, customer services, billing and dunning are all computerized, or even completely automated.
IT is the platform for successful business concepts
and for efficient, economic workflows in the company and in interaction with customers, suppliers, public institutions and other market partners.
Integration, avoiding media failures, automation, flexibility, security and a high level of mobility are quality criteria for business processes for which IT has become simply indispensable. This assumes special significance particularly where processes take place and have to be managed on a multi-company level, frequently on an international scale, involving several partners all at the same time.
IT is the indispensable source of target-oriented information when it comes to corporate planning, management and control. Today it is simply inconceivable for decisions to be taken without a perfect mixture of current and safeguarded information, analyses or forecasts from internal and external information systems.
Tighter regulatory conditions (how about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act? Basel II? the Corporate Sector Supervision and Transparency Act?) and international accounting standards such as IFRS or US-GAAP expand the requirements made of the quality of data and information.
IT plays a crucial role in addressing information needs and the information rights of "environment players".
Given the significance of IT systems and IT projects for the future viability of companies, these aspects are increasingly the focus of attention from supervisory boards (i.e. corporate governance), customers (i.e. traceability of products, product liability) financial backers (i.e. Basel II) or branch-specific supervisory bodies such as the German federal financial supervisory agency (BaFin), the American Stock Exchange Commission (SEC) or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
These areas of application verify the close relationship between "process" and "concept" in terms of IT and thus also the significance for the whole spectrum of requirements management in the context of strategic IT development.
INTARGIA provides you with support in this context:
- in elaborating and evaluating new business ideas, product and process innovations and converting these into detailed specifications and IT concepts
- in enhancing your company's efficiency by analyzing and re-aligning business processes and organization structures
- in elaborating solution proposals, detailed concepts, tender and performance specifications
- in developing IT concepts and specifications
- in the conceptual development of your IT requirement management for IT management and IT project management.
