The convergence between Business and IT is critical to Vair’s future success. It requires us to strategically align change initiatives in a way that supports a cross organizational partnership. To accomplish this, I recommend the adoption and integration of BB&W’s 5 New Information Economics (NIE) Practices.
NIE Practices
1. Strategic Demand/Supply Planning
2. Innovations
3. Prioritizations
4. Alignment
5. Performance Measurement
The NIE practices will benefit our goals of moving ACES forward to organize the IT portfolio. Our target is to integrate all 5 practices, but we must do so with intent. Therefore, we will focus on the following practices first:
• Practice 1: Strategic Demand/Supply Planning – These are strategic intentions that …show more content…
By prioritizing the initiatives, Vair will be more successful on capturing both IT and business needs. Our end game should be to select the right activities that improve upon our bottom line first.
• Practice 4: Alignment - This practice goes hand in hand with prioritization. We need to align the right activities with the correct processes. By prioritizing highest activities first, we will know where to assign resources with the most impact.
Vair is now just realizing the challenges of a divided enterprise. Our actions going forward need to address these gaps. The ACES change initiative and NIE practices will allow for the elimination of misalignments and integration of creative solutions for re-alignment. To succeed as this, I recommend two strategies to unite these initiatives:
• ACES Work group: I will select key stakeholders from each department to form a working committee. This group is responsible for; 1) development and alignment strategies of business and IT, 2) aggregating employee feedback, 3) working with C-levels to select technology solutions and 4) mapping and cross walking solutions for gap
NIE Practices
1. Strategic Demand/Supply Planning
2. Innovations
3. Prioritizations
4. Alignment
5. Performance Measurement
The NIE practices will benefit our goals of moving ACES forward to organize the IT portfolio. Our target is to integrate all 5 practices, but we must do so with intent. Therefore, we will focus on the following practices first:
• Practice 1: Strategic Demand/Supply Planning – These are strategic intentions that …show more content…
By prioritizing the initiatives, Vair will be more successful on capturing both IT and business needs. Our end game should be to select the right activities that improve upon our bottom line first.
• Practice 4: Alignment - This practice goes hand in hand with prioritization. We need to align the right activities with the correct processes. By prioritizing highest activities first, we will know where to assign resources with the most impact.
Vair is now just realizing the challenges of a divided enterprise. Our actions going forward need to address these gaps. The ACES change initiative and NIE practices will allow for the elimination of misalignments and integration of creative solutions for re-alignment. To succeed as this, I recommend two strategies to unite these initiatives:
• ACES Work group: I will select key stakeholders from each department to form a working committee. This group is responsible for; 1) development and alignment strategies of business and IT, 2) aggregating employee feedback, 3) working with C-levels to select technology solutions and 4) mapping and cross walking solutions for gap