Overview

Business & Information Strategy

Alive Network's Business & Information Strategy (BIS) practice is focused on helping today's business and IT leaders define the strategy, innovation, operations and governance that will deliver competitive advantage.

Collaborative Business & Information Strategy

Our collaborative approach - a mainstay of Alive Networks delivery - enables us to work alongside our clients to define and develop IT-enabled transformation strategies that drive top-line growth, profitability, efficiency and agility.

We collaborate with clients to:
* Define IT strategy, aligned to business imperatives
* Drive competitive advantage through technology
* Transform the IT operating model and delivery capability
* Establish value-driven governance between IT and the business
* Build business-focused regulatory compliance
* Develop world-class business technology leadership
* Realize sustainable benefits through robust business cases
* Shape innovative sourcing strategies that deliver cost effective use of resources.

How We Can Help

In response to business pressures from globalization, competition and regulation, the CIO agenda is increasingly focused on optimized delivery, value-based services and leveraging existing assets. At the same time, business also expects IT to deliver top-line value creation through innovation and flexibility, despite 60% of CIOs believing that their function is actually able to deliver innovation and IT services, accordingto our 2008 CIO Survey.

Leading organizations are learning how to respond successfully to these seemingly contradictory challenges. Alive Networks Consulting is playing a part in this by designing cost optimization plans for the IT function to help deliver value for money and defining new and efficient IT operating models for the 21st century. We're helping our clients take a more transformational approach, encompassing IT strategy, governance, the IT delivery operating model, and core IT processes across the whole IT value chain.

The knowledge and experience of Alive Networks Consulting teams ensures that the business and IT transformation programs we support meet these objectives.