WHERE BUSINESS MEET’S ITPrasad Narasimhan – Technical Architect

WHERE?

IT should be a facilitator for business

Disruptive IT should bring new lines of business

Information needed should be at door steps for all major decisions

IT should support all the product lines and it should help consumer to do business in a comfortable way

CHALLENGES

IT has its own way of execution (Strategy, Execution ,…)

IT may not have integrated system in terms of data , application ..

IT Solutions may not totally extendible , not plug – play, slow turn around, every additional solution costing more investment.

Business Team has their own aggressive targets and deadline which IT finds difficult to match

IS THERE A SOLUTION?

After a lot of transformation in IT we are marching towards the solution. This is a long term one which if adapted we would be there.

Enterprise Governance (Data , Application, Infrastructure) aligning to (Enterprise Vision, Mission,…).

Self Service applications to Business Users.

Information should be available as Service or API which any application or end user can access to.

HOW TO GET THERE?

Look at where we stand

Do a GAP Analysis to reach the vision

Defined well defined metrics in terms of Governance targeting mission , vision..

Try to make the application self configurable by Business Users and they can tailor the Business rules & data based on their need.

FRAMEWORKS/TOOLS.

Adoption of TOGAF, Zachman Enterprise framework for defining the Governance model.

Troux Kind of tools can be used to collect the Metrics and validate the Enterprise Performance against standards

THANKS

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