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Business-Aligned IT Strategy

Understand the capabilities and focus areas required to meet your industry’s needs and enable value creation.

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Identify resource, process, and environmental trends impacting your industry. Implement strategies to mitigate specific risks and take advantage of all relevant opportunities.

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Reveal the true state of your IT services, processes, spend, and staffing levels to align your priorities and resources. Benefit from peer data to get a reference point for how well you stack up.

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Restaurants Business-Aligned IT Strategy

  • Learn about the ecosystem of factors that impact the Restaurants industry.
  • Explore how your IT team is set to deal with those factors from PESTLE and SWOT perspectives.
  • Leverage expert insights and takeaways and update your IT strategy accordingly.
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Restaurants IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook

  • With input from our research and analysts and your peers, identify new or updated initiatives for your IT strategy.
  • Working with our team, update your IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook.
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Restaurants Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template

  • Once you’ve completed the IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook, it’s time to pull it all together and share with your organization’s leadership team.
  • Use the Restaurants Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template to highlight the key findings from the business-aligned analysis you’ve done.

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Restaurants Healthier, Local, Casual Report

  • Consumers are choosing fast, casual, and healthier dining options when they want quality food that is affordable and still fast. Fast and casual means streamlining activities to deliver the best food experience in the shortest amount of time.
  • Learn about how the healthier, local, casual trend affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Restaurants Restaurmart Report

  • Just as grocery stores have opened dine-in experiences, restaurants are reversing the trend and offering retail grocery options in their facilities.
  • Learn about how the restaurmart trend affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
  • Devise a list of initiatives you can integrate into your IT strategic plan to transform the role IT plays in your organization.
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Restaurants Ghost Restaurants Report

  • The forces that have transformed transportation, media, retail, and logistics are also driving the next big restaurant trend – no kitchens.
  • The creation of a network of shared kitchens and storage facilities cuts down on overhead and spins up new concepts in dining.
  • Learn about how the ghost restaurants trend affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.

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Industry Benchmarking


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Benchmarking Report: A Cross-Industry Comparison of IT Stakeholder Satisfaction

  • Every industry has unique characteristics that can hamper progress or facilitate success in satisfying IT stakeholders. Reimagine your strategy by shifting the definition of who your peers really are.
  • Discover which industries achieve high stakeholder satisfaction across 13 core IT services.
  • Learn the characteristics that different industries have that can help or hinder IT success.
  • Understand what your industry has in common with others that you can leverage to improve stakeholder satisfaction and overcome your own institutional barriers.
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Restaurants IT Staffing Benchmarking Report

  • Many IT departments are already running lean, struggling to keep pace with never-ending demands from the business. IT staffing is stretched thin.
  • By taking the IT Staffing Assessment diagnostic and participating in our unique IT Spend benchmarking, you will gain critical information to position your team to be seen as strategic.
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Restaurants IT Management & Governance Benchmarking Report

  • Understanding your IT team’s perception of what’s important and how well they’re doing is central to identifying strengths, weaknesses, and potential misalignments with business priorities and expectations.
  • Learn about how IT departments in your industry assess the importance and effectiveness of 45 IT processes to gauge your own alignment and identify select processes for targeted improvement.
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Restaurants IT Stakeholder Satisfaction Benchmarking Report

  • IT leadership needs to understand where their clients are unsatisfied with the quality of service they are receiving from IT.
  • Understand important focus areas to address and insights into how your team compares with other Restaurants IT organizations.

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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection


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Restaurants Point of Sale Systems Report

  • A modern point of sale (PoS) system has many features and capabilities that optimize operations, enhance customer experience, and assist in selling through various sales channels, which make them very complex.
  • Learn about what a PoS system is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
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Restaurants Human Resource Information Systems Report

  • Employee time management is the biggest element in the workforce management use case for a restaurant.
  • Workforce planning elements, which are addressed by human resource information system (HRIS) capabilities, are an important requirement for a restaurant.
  • Learn about what an HRIS is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
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Restaurants Web Experience Management Report

  • Every retailer, including restaurants, must meet customer expectations through many sales channels, and e-commerce is growing the fastest.
  • Merging with web content management and analytics, web experience management (WEM) is evolving away from basic websites to enabling omnichannel customer experiences.
  • Learn about what WEM is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.

Latest Restaurants Notes

Short, tailored research notes aimed at providing you with timely insights, relevant to your industry. Hot off the press, these notes will be published regularly and pair great with your morning coffee.

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Meet the Manufacturing Sector Executive Services Leadership Team

Date published

November 7, 2023

Authors:
  • Chris Goodhue

  • Steve Schmidt

Manufacturing is big business for Info-Tech, and so is our dedicated Manufacturing research and advisory services team’s ambition: Ensure that our members in manufacturing companies consistently receive exceptional value from their investment with Info-Tech! We do that by providing material, ongoing support for IT leaders in manufacturing on key IT initiatives, personal/professional development, peer networking, and career advancement.

Don’t Get Left Behind: American Rescue Plan Provides $28.6 Billion in Relief for Restaurant Industry

Date published

May 28, 2021

Author:
  • Larry Fretz

The American Rescue Plan (ARP) is the third stimulus package passed by the federal government of the United States since March 2020. Stimulus funding aims to address gaps created as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. ARP comprises $1.9 trillion in mandatory funding, programming, and tax policies, which will provide significant relief to Americans adversely affected by the pandemic. Restaurant industry IT professionals must be aware of the variety of funding opportunities available that are designed to help restaurants and other eligible businesses keep their doors open.

Discussion Summary: Info-Tech LIVE Las Vegas Retail & Wholesale Industries Roundtable

Date published

December 19, 2019

Author:
  • Jennifer Perrier

Info-Tech LIVE took place November 19-21 in Las Vegas, NV. Here, we hosted nine Industry Roundtables focused on the direct and longer-term ripple effects of Industry 4.0 and its hallmark technologies on the different industry sectors. Read this summary of the Retail & Wholesale conversation to learn the main challenges and opportunities your peers think Industry 4.0 presents and what they believe are the next steps to manage this sea change successfully.

Establishing a Balanced Scorecard for IT Performance in the Retail Industry Is an Important Complement to IT Strategy

Date published

June 11, 2019

Author:
  • Sidney Hodgson

The IT balanced scorecard must go beyond the usual IT metrics. To be most effective, the IT balanced scorecard must demonstrate the value IT provides and reflect corporate strategies and goals.

Generation-Z Shoppers, Technology, and Their Impact on Brick-and-Mortar Retail

Date published

March 8, 2019

Author:
  • Andy Liu

Gen-Z shoppers are going to cause brick and mortar stores to return to popularity. IT has an important role to ensuring your organization’s stores can attract these shoppers.

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