Business/Technology Alignment
The successful business and technology alignment project requires that both functional areas have a fairly detailed plan of what they want to accomplish in a given timeframe – typically 1-3 years. What has transpired within the organization is that there is lack of a coordinated effort to (typically, due to the leadership not recognizing that this coordination would be beneficial) merge the two plans and see where there are dependencies.
The true need for this level of coordination is typically identified/magnified once the organization has adopted some level of corporate project management. Adoption of project management basic tenets helps to insure that accountability, status and issue communication and escalation processes are established. Through issue resolution and escalation it becomes readily apparent that the functional areas are not “in sync”.
Benefits of Service:
Top 5 Benefits to your Company upon achieving Alignment
- Clear project prioritization all for all Business Functional areas to communicate corporate priorities/goals and help all employee, vendor and customer facets understand the organizational timeframe and how it is holding itself accountability – which promotes corporate integrity and discipline, key for investment and shareholder, board member confidence.
- Documented project prioritization that can be explained/understood – outlining key impacts and ramifications – allows for upcoming (inevitable) changes to be applied to the existing plan with a high level of precision that can be readily communicated.
- Maximize resource utilization - allows for projects with similar impacts on certain applications, processes, people to be “combined” into a single project with shared benefits to external and internal resources.
- Minimize redundancy of training/education needs, implementation of process and system changes.
- Confidence in project resources, confidence in project sponsors are intangible benefits indicated by enthusiasm of team members and target dates being hit with a high level of consistency.
Service Specifics
- Business strategy development
- Information strategy development
- Strategic Information systems planning
- Strategy Implementation
- “Business and Technology Alignment – Taking away the final excuse”, speaker series
Value
- Current on the healthcare services trends in EHR/EMR, data consolidation and requirements for federal guidelines on quality/compliance data, transparency and evidence based medicine, and electronic prescriptions.
- Expertise with companies that need to evolve and transform their mission statement into a granular EXECUTION plan to promote market share and implement efficiencies.
- Can translate the business functional knowledge and needs into the information technology infrastructure and application production world.
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