Thursday, March 19, 2020

Running IT as a Business Solutionary with Unique Competencies

 IT is the spinal cord that enables business outcomes with unique competencies by integrating people, processes, and technology, simplifying and unifying processes across functional boundaries, and often across the entire enterprise, to maximize business potential.

In most organizations, IT has been perceived as a support center and it’s setting back and waiting for the request from the business. To reinvent IT as a trustful business partner, it has to be configured in a way to understand the business and become a business solutionary that has competencies to do two things for their company: Deliver better, faster and cost-effective business solutions and do profitable things for the organization otherwise, it can't do.



IT has the ability to interact with the business on their processes and pain areas: It’s the strong business orientation and ability to bring the benefits of IT to solve business issues. In reality, many IT organizations that struggle at the lower level of maturity spend too much time on taking band-aid approaches to fix symptoms without spending enough resource and time on cross-functional communication to discover the pain point and solve real problems via outlining the implementation process with assignments, timelines, and deliverables.

Too often, IT is not involved in the strategic goal-setting stage of the business, but instead at a task level. That will create the gap between business priority and IT priority. The well-built IT management framework helps to facilitate IT and non-IT organizations collaborating on creating the common organization's vision, strategy, objectives, mission, and plans, retool IT management to model powerful collaboration and develop unique competencies for achieving the long-term business benefits.

IT has the ability to align the business requirement with the IT capacity: Nowadays IT permeates into every corner of the business, its primary goal is to ensure that IT capacity meets current and future business requirements in a cost-effective manner. IT leaders are able to constantly and dynamically lead an IT structure that will seamlessly enable the business change and well ahead of the business requirement. IT capacity planning needs to be part of the strategic initiative of the organization around continuous improvement.

IT capacity planning allows for a transparent view from across the organization that should improve business performance and competency. Create liaison and business partnership with technical people that can understand the business requirements, figure out what the business needs, share unique business insight as to what IT capacity can provide, work out if it makes financial sense, balancing risk and reward tradeoffs for solving thorny business problems.

IT looks for providing business solutions that will directly benefit the external end customers and improve business competency: IT has both internal and external customers. Point out that customer inquiries are not just support related, you have to know and relate to what customers value and how they quantify that value first before you can add real value to the business. Looking for providing business solutions that will directly benefit the external end customers should be an easier path to grow the innovation fruit and increase business benefit.

IT needs to be proactive, not reactive. Being customer-centric is a strategic objective, not just a performance indicator. Listen to customers, Running a customer-centric IT would follow the principle to gain customer empathy and foster new and better ways that the application can perform and optimize every touchpoint of customer experience. In fact, customer-facing applications are critical at the end of the day as they generate revenue for the business and delight customers by continuously delivering new solutions.

IT leaders have the ability to think analytically and synthetically for managing business solutions via high-performance IT teams: IT management is both art and science. IT has the ability to bring out a technology-driven solution by leveraging structured methodologies and efficient tools and driving the adoption of applications. People are still the center of change, and talented IT professionals and team are the most critical success factors of running high performance IT. IT Engineering practices and management disciplines require systematic thinking, structural approaches, and synthetic problem-solving capabilities with quality deliveries via high-performance IT teams.

IT leaders need to focus on putting together a solid IT Management Framework that matches the needs of the business, develops IT competency, retool IT management to model powerful collaboration, and ensures that the IT plans are in line with the corporate direction to achieve the well-defined business goals. High driven IT staff and teams develop their own individual career goals, and align them with the strategic goals of their organization. Achieving continuous improvement and striking the right balance in high performance IT organizations requires all team members to believe that things can be improved, and ultimately, achieve high-performance business results.

The role of IT today for many forward-thinking organizations is a solutionary for Information Management. IT is the spinal cord that enables business outcomes with unique competencies by integrating people, processes, and technology, simplifying and unifying processes across functional boundaries, and often across the entire enterprise, to maximize business potential.

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