Strategy & Governance - Blueprints

Establish a Service-Based Costing Model

Service-based costing brings clarity to IT expenditures and visibility to IT consumption. However, overcoming the challenges of service-based costing requires a logical...
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Make IT a Partner in Successful M&A Due Diligence

Even though IT-related activities can be the larget cost item in an M&A, many organizations continue to underestimate the role IT plays in successfully executing a merger...
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Implement an IT Chargeback System

IT needs to recover its costs from those that use IT services with a fair and transparent approach. Develop a chargeback model that explains IT costs in a way that...
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Map Your Business Architecture to Define Your Strategy

Business architecture provides a holistic and unified view of the organization’s activities that provide value to their clients and the of the resources that make those...

Create an IT View of the Service Catalog

Organizations must have a clear understanding of their IT services and how IT delivers them. Use the structured guidelines within this blueprint to help you document the...
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Define Your Digital Business Strategy

A value-driven approach to digital transformation that allows you to identify what aspects of the business to transform, what technologies to embrace, what processes to...
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Establish a Foresight Capability

An innovative CIO must identify relevant trends early and respond to them quickly. By applying strategic foresight, CIOs can help their organizations become more...
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Implement a New IT Organizational Structure

Managing organizational design (OD) changes effectively is critical to maintaining IT service levels and retaining top talent throughout a restructure. Yet many...
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Initiate Your Service Management Program

Derive full value out of service management by running it like a program with defined goals that are tied to business needs and governance that keeps decisions aligned to...
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Make IT a Successful Partner in M&A Integration

Many organizations forget the essential role IT plays during M&A integration. The involvement of IT is critical to providing a better view of risks, improving ease of...
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