Information technology is decidedly strategic; yet, are you confident that you are maximizing your IT investment or that IT is efficiently or effectively supporting your business? Being unsure may put your organization at a competitive disadvantage. Grant Thornton offers clients IT strategy services that help your organization optimize its technology activities:
IT governance
Appropriate IT governance is integral to a company’s success in aligning IT investments to business goals and having those investments be successfully delivered. Developing an IT governance model and approach that accommodates multiple investments and projects can assist you in adding value to your organization. Grant Thornton professionals can help you do this by:
- monitoring the overall risks of projects
- developing risk mitigation plans
- drafting overall IT roadmaps that your governance team can manage to ensure that decisions align to company goals
Software selection and optimization
Mission-critical applications must be selected using unbiased, fact based decision criteria. Grant Thornton uses a structured approach to determine alignment with your business goals and the best overall solution.
To evaluate your technology’s return on investment, our professionals consider:
- key elements of vendor viability
- technology capabilities
- features and functions of the software
- support capabilities of the vendor
- contractual considerations
IT assessment and roadmaps to value Assessing existing IT applications, staffing and infrastructure in relation to overall business value and key dependencies is integral to leverage existing technology. Grant Thornton can help to effectively manage and implement technology solutions by:
- aligning the IT strategy with business goals
- maximizing your return on investment in it assets
- considering outsourcing opportunities and threats
- evaluating and selecting software applications to meet business needs
- developing IT roadmaps that prioritize key it projects
- forming IT governance structures and teams to guide the IT investment and delivery processes
- reducing non-interfacing IT systems and applications
- increasing effectiveness of technology
