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No company or government today can effectively lead in its market without a clear understanding of IT’s role and a strategy for how to best leverage technology.
As with finance and marketing, IT must enable business-necessary capabilities and be a well-thought-out part of any strategic effort.
Our experienced professionals work with leadership and IT teams to identify the roles of technology in a business strategy, the capabilities IT can provide and how the IT organization needs to be managed to deliver its commitments.
We then work with clients to understand the ROI that can be leveraged from current and leading technologies.
For most companies, information technology strategy and execution are critical for enabling growth, enhancing profitability and reducing risk. Today, even organizations large enough to have their own chief information officers (CIOs) still need strategic guidance to keep their businesses aligned with their technology.
Our CIO Consulting Services team brings deep IT skills and experience to help with strategy and execution. Comprised of seasoned IT professionals, many of whom are former Centric Consulting clients, they use our remote-work technology to deliver services that will help you be ready for continuous renewal.
Our team is a working example of the “gig economy” that enables us to tailor our involvement specifically to meet each client’s strategic and tactical needs. We can either serve as a key member of your IT team or coach and support your internal CIO or IT team. Either way, our CIO Consulting Services team is committed to working with you to deliver better, together.
Customers and employees expect a more seamless and consumer-friendly way to interact with the companies they do business with. For many, the gold standard is the ease at which you can transact with Amazon. Becoming more digital internally and externally is increasingly the only path to greater profitability, differentiated offerings, speed to market, and market share.
What is my Uber? What digitally enabled competitor is working to upend my business?
How do I set clear priorities around “being digital” and optimally deploy capital?
How do I convince my management team that this is a long journey? And how do I adopt a digital mindset and ensure alignment at all levels of my organization?
What areas of digital should I focus on (GTM strategy vs. product/service innovation vs. supply chain, etc). Which has the most significant return? Which is the most risky? Which can be accomplished the quickest?
Should I invest in new digital business opportunities or focus on digitizing my current operating model?
Can we reimagine and digitize our current business processes and how does our digital platform leverage data insights to evolve our business model?
Is IT working on business solutions that create competitive advantages in the marketplace? Are companies maximizing the ability of IT to deliver solutions in the most effective and efficient way possible?
Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a proven, repeatable means to improve the coordination and alignment of IT and business investments to efficiently deliver strategic initiatives.
Many organizations are interested in exploring EA methods as a way to improve alignment between business strategy and the delivery of technology solutions to enable the execution of that strategy.
Employing and managing an EA implementation can seem like a daunting endeavor due to the complexity of typical EA frameworks. However, with our help, it doesn’t have to be.
Our Modern Software Delivery (MSD) practice delivers software that your CIO loves to manage, your CFO is willing to pay for, and your CEO is excited to talk about, including:
Software development that alleviates delivery and operational friction.
Innovative applications that enhance users’ satisfaction and usage.
Seamless tools that leverage modern software practices and improve culture.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies that automate processes and delight customers.
Modern tools and the skills to create them are critical in today’s market, where business success depends on your ability to identify and adapt to rapidly changing business conditions. Failing to deliver technology in a modern way has very real impacts. Over the last 10 years, innovative S&P 500 companies have outperformed less innovative companies by more than 200%.
However, outperforming today is not just about who gets to market first, but also who can scale the fastest, with the most optimized costs. Companies that do so succeed and thrive, while those that don’t go extinct.
Our proven MSD methodology enables software delivery that provides reliable, scalable solutions for our clients. But we also teach teams to build and deliver modern software themselves, synergizing Agile management, effective test automation, DevOps practices, modular architecture and cloud platforms.
Our MSD software consulting services can help.