Goods Transportation & Logistics Industry Business Reference Architecture
Your guide to building business capability maps, value streams, and strategy maps for the goods transportation & logistics industry.
- A lack of understanding of the business’s landscape and how IT can support the delivery of successful projects.
- A lack of a business- and AI-aligned view of mission, strategy, goals, objectives, processes, projects, and measures of success.
- Presence of silos that miss the big-picture and don’t understand the need for a synergistic approach for successful outcomes.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
Using an industry-specific reference architecture is central, and has many benefits, to organizational priorities. It is critical to understanding, modeling, and communicating the operating environment and the direction of the organization but, more significantly, it enables measurable top-line organizational outcomes and unlocks direct value.
Impact and Result
- Demonstrate the value of IT’s role in supporting your goods transportation & logistics business capabilities while highlighting the importance of proper alignment between organizational and IT strategies.
- Apply level 2 business reference architecture techniques such as strategy maps, value streams, and capability maps to design usable and accurate blueprints of your construction business.
- Assess your initiatives and priorities to determine if you are investing in the right capabilities. Conduct capability assessments to identify opportunities and to prioritize projects.
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What Is a Blueprint?
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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Get the help you need in this 4-phase advisory process. You'll receive 9 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
Guided Implementation 1: Build Your Organization’s Capability Map
- Call 1: Introduce Info-Tech’s industry reference architecture methodology.
- Call 2: Define and create value streams.
Guided Implementation 2: Use Business Capabilities to Define Strategic Focus
- Call 1: Model Level 1 business capability maps.
- Call 2: Map value streams to business capabilities.
Guided Implementation 3: Assess Key Capabilities for Planning Priorities
- Call 1: Model Level 2 business capability maps.
- Call 2: Create a strategy map.
Guided Implementation 4: Adopt Capability-Based Strategy Planning
- Call 1: Introduce Info-Tech's capability assessment framework.
- Call 2: Review capability assessment map(s).
- Call 3: Discuss and review prioritization of key capability gaps and plan next steps.
Contributors
- David Engel, Global Head of IT, Worldnet International
- Vincent Tung, Global Head of Quality & Compliance, Worldnet International
- 1 anonymous contributor, Purolator
