Business & IT Alignment

Your IT and Recruitment Business Processes should work hand-in-hand, and at the same time, your company needs to maintain strong, competitive IT capabilities and still meet demands for reduced IT spending.

What is Business & IT Alignment?

Pan Eight's Business & IT Alignment service takes a holistic, comprehensive approach that is designed to capture a snapshot of your existing IT function, and deliver a strategic roadmap leading to business and IT synergy and significant benefits. We can help you determine where you are, where you want to go, and how Technology can help you get there.

What are the main benefits?

• Cost Reduction
  • Operational streamlining
  • Removal of process bottlenecks
  • Reduced Vendor costs Revenue
• Revenue Generation
  • Increased business performance
  • Increased competitiveness through technology innovation
  • Increased customer engagements
• Workforce Engagement
  • Increased employee engagement
  • Increased employee productivity
  • Increased workforce mobilisation
• Green IT Credentials
  • Increased Green IT credentials
• Growth
• Allow your core business to focus on revenue generation, stability, customer satisfaction and growth

How is it done?

We utilise our own proprietary four-phased methodology to perform Business & IT Alignment. The process includes:

Phase I - Discovery

1. Review the business plans, goals and processes
2. Review of the structure and skills of the IT function
3. Review the existing applications, systems, services and processes
4. Review the existing IT services

Phase II – Gap Analysis

Deliver a gap analysis of the performance and capability of your IT function against business objectives, forecasts, best practice, industry norms, technology evolution, and competitor metrics.

Phase III - Strategic and Technology Opportunities

Identify business and technology opportunities which may create new strategic or tactical options based on industry trends, the availability of new products and technology and IT budget constraints.

Phase IV – Strategic Roadmap

The Strategic Roadmap will cover the following areas:

• Technology
• Application
• Structure and skill sets of the IT function
• Methods and internal processes of the IT function
• Alternative approaches, such as outsourcing
• Discussion and agreement on the way forward

What are the deliverables?

1. Documented review of the existing IT function
2. Documented strategy for the IT function, in line with the business strategy
3. A detailed, justified and planned roadmap for proposed changes to the IT function

Next Steps?

Learn more about how you can take advantage of Pan Eight's Business & IT Alignment service and ensure your technology function is ready to meet your business objectives - Contact us today.