Strategy Solutions, Software Planning Solutions, ROI

• Are your Corporate Business Plans aligned with your IT Strategy?
• Do you have an IT strategy that will help your business achieve its Goals?
• Does your future include new lines of business, new locations, new service offerings? Are your systems ready to support those?
• Is your business growth outpacing your IT capabilities?

• Strategic Information Systems Planning
• Software Selection
• Organizational Change Management
• Program and Project Management

We believe that for a business to be successful it must plan for its future. That planning is not just limited to business planning, there must be Strategic IT planning which is aligned with the business plans to ensure that IT is in place to support the businesses direction and growth. IT planning isn’t just adding another PC when a new employee is hired, it’s anticipating the network infrastructure needs when a new division established. A successful SISP must include planning for:

• Application Plans – Focused on supporting the business’ functional needs in all the operational areas of the business (i.e., Manufacturing, Finance, Supply Chain, etc.).
• Technology Plans – Infrastructure and current state technology to support the growth and application needs.
• Data Plans – Appropriately securing and tracking Data, an invaluable corporate asset.
• Organizational Plans – People training, support, head count, and operational needs to support the user base.

Comprehensive software selection services to help your enterprise ensure it has business software designed to support your business functional needs as well as the volume of data and user access. Just having software isn’t the answer, having the right software for your business’ stage of its evolution. We offer both traditional and rapid software selection services. A rapid software selection can be used under certain circumstances to skip steps in the Traditional approach. The traditional approach follows the steps below:

• Are you investing enough (or too much) in your future?
• Will your business gain from your investments or will its growth be stifled because you have not invested in the right areas or at the appropriate levels?
• Do you have a plan on how to invest in your businesses future?

ROI is one of several approaches to building a financial business case. The term literally means that an enterprise’s decision makers evaluate the amount of money invested by comparing it to funds earned (or saved) through the investment and length of time it takes to earn those funds (return).

Why is this important? Understanding if your company is investing enough to be able to support its operations in the future, or if it is over-spending and the time required to gain the value from the investment is too great and will thus not benefit the business in either the short or long-run is critical to juggling the ever changing technology with the shrinking value of the dollar.

Most IT professionals are strong with technology but struggle some with finance. Let Denovo help you Bridge the Gap. Getting budget approval from the finance organization requires knowledge of the value and the subsequent return (what will it get me) from those monies spent. The fastest way to get future budget dollars allocated to IT is to build a strong case for today’s spending, which includes a carefully planned and articulated ROI; which is subsequently proved accurate. Tracking ROI to demonstrate that the analysis paid the dividend it was planned to, will enable future budgeting.

As such, ROI is not a one-time event, but a budgeting and planning process which must be tracked and validated as time moves on. Without on-going monitoring changes in either the business, the economy, or both will affect predicted results and could have been adjusted to be more favorable or less disruptive.