Strategy & Masterplan

The prime task for senior executives with IT responsibility is to bridge the gap between business strategies, processes, organization structures and IT. This applies to CIOs, managing directors, company chairmen or even members of the supervisory boards as part of their supervisory functions.

An IT strategy and also a corresponding IT master plan therefore constitute an indispensable part of every corporate strategy. They translate business concepts and requirements into the requirements, objectives and critical success factors for strategic IT management.

The IT strategy helps to enhance awareness of the chances offered by IT and to ascertain their value for the company. It provides impetus for new products, improved services and more efficient business processes. It gives a structure and priority to the activities for cultivating these chances, and describes how to overcome hindrances and minimize risks. It defines technological standards and strategic products. And it draws up guidelines for the selection and efficient use of global internal and external resources.

The IT masterplan translates the measures resulting from the IT strategy into an overall planning dimension. It defines long-term measures and intended results in the context of the factors "time", "resources", "budget" and "risk".

The detailed objectives and benefits of your IT strategy must include:

• Transparent translation of the requirements stipulated by the company management and specific departments into IT dimensions
• Appraisal of the impact from new technological developments on your company
• Transparency through business cases, costs and revenues involved in IT investment, providing an effective instrument for investment and cost management
• Transparency regarding the scope of IT services in the company
• Clear procedures and rules for safeguarding economic IT operations
• Identification, prioritizing and planning programmes, projects and measures for strategic IT development in your company
• Stipulation of guidelines for security, compliance, data protection, etc.
• Clear distribution of roles and decision-making processes between IT units and users on the basis of standards and directives

INTARGIA provides you with comprehensive, holistic support in putting together your IT strategy and implementing it in the company.
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