Decode the Corporate Strategy
Access Granted: Commencing IT value delivery.
- IT is not included in corporate strategy discussions and required strategic information is challenging to obtain.
- Corporate objectives are too vague.
- Business units keep changing their minds about corporate imperatives.
- Business units demand more than IT can deliver.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
The corporate strategy is the treasure map to corporate prosperity. The CIO needs his own copy so he doesn’t get lost.
- You’ll need data from many sources to fill in the missing pieces of the map.
- Finding all the treasure is impossible; prioritize IT support.
- Identify the capabilities required to reach prosperity; a boat and crew will be required.
Impact and Result
- Collect all relevant corporate strategy data to get a holistic view of your organization’s structural, customer-related, and operational direction.
- Analyze corporate strategy data to identify all relevant corporate objectives and initiatives.
- Limited IT resources necessitates prioritizing corporate objectives and initiatives; allocate IT resources to key imperatives.
- Identify the business capabilities required to execute the corporate strategy. Supporting these business capabilities will drive IT strategy formation.
- Prioritize the use and modification of business capabilities required to achieve corporate strategy.
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A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Speak With An Analyst
Get the help you need in this 1-phase advisory process. You'll receive 4 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
- Call 1: Get off to a productive start
Discuss who to include on your project team and what the project team will be doing. Discuss the corporate strategy decoding process at a high level.
- Call 2: Get the information you need
Discuss what information available in your organization can help you understand the corporate strategy. Discuss best practices for interviewing stakeholders.
- Call 3: Identify and prioritize organizational imperatives
Identify and discuss key corporate objectives and initiatives. Evaluate objective and initiative importance to organizational success and the perceived importance to key stakeholders.
- Call 4: Identify the capabilities required to execute corporate strategy
Discuss how corporate objectives and initiatives affect business capabilities. Evaluate capability change importance to organizational success and the perceived importance to key stakeholders.
Contributors
- Stephen Davies, Managing Director, Transformation by Design Business Consultants Inc.
- Paul Hingorani, Managing Director, Transformation by Design Business Consultants Inc.
- Stephen Hogg, Senior Manager, KPMG Canada
- Sandy McBride, Enterprise Architecture and Transformation Leader, KPMG LLP
- Ian Shelley, Partner, Blackline Consulting
- Dave Wallace, Chief Information Officer, University of Waterloo