Our IT strategy solution helps clients meet business objectives when engaged in dynamic IT changes. Over the past two decades, Align has teamed with many organizations from multinational to regional companies — providing direction and program management to successfully align IT strategy with business and performance requirements.
Our IT strategy group helps with:
- Business/IT service alignment
- Performance management (measurement)
- Transformation project portfolio management
- Data center optimization
- Green IT
Align acts as an advocate for business alignment and performance management and takes a leadership role to foster the transformation of your technology projects. From planning large, fast-paced data center relocation projects to enterprise-wide system upgrades and desktop rollouts, our proven process measures risk, leverages resources and manages expectations. This ensures that even the most demanding technology projects are run as smoothly as possible.
COST OPTIMIZATION
Successful businesses are challenged to do more with less — and finding ways to drive efficiencies and reduce costs is a specialty of Align. We have extensive experience helping organizations evaluate and optimize their IT environments to meet service requirements and budget objectives. <more>
An Align cost/value optimization engagement provides an assessment of current process capabilities and maturity. Our trained and certified leaders follow best practices to optimize IT portfolios using:
- Service and portfolio assessments
- Analyze/evaluate/recommend
- Prioritize/selection
- Business case/cost justification ROI
- Charter (into transformation project portfolio)
- Monitor and track benefits
Ultimately Align’s work serves as a driver for change and cost savings, helping organizations:
- Improve the ability to address go-to-market dynamics and changes
- Drive consistency in IT service management delivery with reliable outcomes
- Enable cost predictability with a high level of credibility
- Develop new processes, specialties and innovations
IT RATIONALIZATION
IT has become one of the primary determinants of an organization’s success and competitiveness, and demands for infrastructure continue to increase. Meeting these business needs and maintaining service levels results in pressure to constantly improve performance. Optimizing infrastructure is key to providing enterprises with more functionality and higher service levels at no additional cost – or even at a reduced cost. <more>
Align’s approach ensures that you get the maximum value for money from your IT Infrastructure without jeopardizing long-term strategic directions. We:
- Conduct a technology appraisal of your IT infrastructure and service components
- Review against best practices and create value-add opportunities
- Identify “quick wins” without jeopardizing service
- Implement focused transformations that do not jeopardize the strategic direction of the organization
Align offers a unique blend of strategic, technical and implementation capabilities to define the strategy and delivery roadmap – and execute against these recommendations.
To learn more about IT strategy services, contact Align.
