Articulate & Derive IT Strategy from EA Business/BU Strategy – A POLC Framework – Concrete strategy levers

Any Strategy planning Involved two major work areas.

1.????? Strategy Formulation (Planning)

2.????? Strategy Implementation (Organizing, Leading and Controlling)

Strategy Formulation (Business Operating model):

1.????? Business Strategy alignment with goals, objectives, strategy translated into achievable Activities/Themes and they mapping to Enterprise level capabilities.

2.????? EA approach is adopted for the above and help have

a.????? Goals-Strategy Alternates-Objectives-Themes at Portfolio/BU level Capabilities Map.

b.????? Themes-to-Business Capabilities (Baseline, New, Modifiable, Retireable)

3.????? IT strategy support to above goals and capabilities Matrices.

4.????? Use Strategy tools like SWOT, PESTEL and Value-Chain-Stream models. Proven one for EA level is “Value-Chain-Stream model”.

5.????? This tool helps to realize the Strategy Implementation phase.

Strategy Implementation (IT Operating model):

1.????? IT Goals from BU goals

2.????? IT level – What types of problems we will solve keeping “Internal/External Customers in kept in mind”

3.????? IT level – How we solve the problems while realizing those capabilities and able to realize Value-proposition

4.????? IT Operating model – formulation or revisiting the one we have

a.????? How we can build and deploy the capabilities to the customers

b.????? How and Where we can able to realize the Value proposition as apart of Goals by deploying the capabilities so that create a value.

5.????? IT Strategy –

a.????? Strategic alternates among the Core IT Fabric elements

b.????? Enterprise Applications and Technologies, People, Processes and Core Platforms and infrastructure needed

c.?????? that can help us get there where Business Visioned to go.

d.????? Business Vision and Alignment in terms of IT level initiatives, tactics (Projects, Programs)

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?6.????? Enterprise Application Strategy – IT Strategy Lever 1

a.????? What technology and modern trends emerging and how those are help us to go where BU wants to go

b.????? Lot of different directions you go about capabilities-apps-technologies-BU,

c.?????? Single system like ERP

d.????? Multiple systems with best of breed handle with different business functions

e.????? Spot technologies fixing and replacing as on today

f.??????? Tech Inventory

g.????? EA Application strategy to fit in with above alignment items.

h. Value-stream vs Process Step vs Capability vs App vs Business Service vs Product Mapping model

i.????? Enterprises and technologies fit into the fabric of EA.

7.????? Architecture – IT strategy Lever 2

a.????? System integration

b.????? How the systems tie together

c.?????? Cyber security, business/technological architecture with behind overall strategy

8.????? IT Organizational Strategy – IT strategy Lever 3

a.????? Look at right competencies in the IT Org

b.????? IT Skill set, old systems

c.?????? IT upskill, retraining, replacing and bringing right minds

d.????? Right teams and team level goals

e.????? Team level collaboration strategy at Enterprise wide and Local enabled teams

f.??????? Team to Tactic allotment (Portfolio level, Value-Stream level, Program and Project level)

g.????? Future state IT department

h.????? Strategic business focused IT system

i.??????? New technologies and processes

9.????? Business Process alignment – IT strategy Lever 4

a.????? Alignment with Business processes and operational transparency

b.????? How future processes look like

c.?????? Technologies fit into this fabric

10.? Change Strategy – IT strategy Lever 5

a.????? Change management, people strategy

b.????? People, culture fit

c.?????? People to know how to use the technologies and IT support system helps this evolution

d.????? Roles and responsibilities

e.????? Clear change stratregy

11.? Data, Regulatory, Compliance and Security, Deep Observability Strategy – IT strategy Lever 6

a.????? High profile security breaches

b.????? How to use the data cumulated over the decades and times

c.?????? What we do with data, new technology how we roll-out and help get meaning from data

d.????? Data as an asset

e.????? Security aspects and fabric across people, process, technology and data

f.??????? External and internal cyber security

12.? Metrics and measures – IT Strategy Lever 7

a.????? What strategy wants to achieve

b.????? What source of investments and what benefits and goals we achieve

c.?????? IT changes to be done

d.????? Next level benefits

13.? IT Governance (People, process, Technology and Data) – IT Strategy Lever 8

a.????? Portfolio

b.????? PMO (programs and projects)

c.?????? Tools, compliance and regulatory

d.????? IT consistency, IT compliance and regulatory and IT level Accountability

e.????? Standards driven, Metrics/Measurement driven

f.??????? Alignment with Business goals (Business Unit governance)

14.? IT Support Services Collaboration Framework with BU and Enterprise level Leadership teams – IT Strategy Lever 8.1

a. Pyramid collaboration strategy implementation for EA Strategy - Architecture & Integration - PMO

15.? Best practices & Feedback cycle – IT Strategy Lever 9

a.????? Retrospections

b.????? Business feedback, Teams’ level feedback and Customer’s feedback

c.?????? Best practices revise, Enterprise Tenets’ governance

16.? Re-invent & Re-organize cycle – IT Strategy Lever 10

a. AI & Knowledge Lake specific strategy elements needs re-invent on Data/Business Process/Omni channel/Culture adoption.

b. Re-organize the IT Infrastructure which is optimal & rewardable and easily adoptable execution models