IT Strategy and Transformation: Services Overview

We bring both business and IT perspectives to assist organizations in evaluating technology opportunities and developing IT strategies and plans. Combining our deep IT strategy, industry and technology implementation experience with functional and other skills available throughout Accenture, we help IT and business leaders:

• Guide their enterprises in leveraging IT to move the business forward

• Quickly identify how the IT organization can provide greater value to the business

• Determine the IT capabilities and strategies needed to exploit emerging business opportunities

• Develop the appropriate IT strategy and application blueprint—as well as a plan we can implement with organizations, anywhere in the world

• Improve the operations and processes of the IT function, make it more effective and efficient, and align it more closely to business strategy

• Get the most business value from IT investments

IT strategy—Our comprehensive IT strategy services help organizations shape the direction of IT over the next three to five years to maximize shareholder and business value. We assist organizations in developing:

• A comprehensive IT strategy, including IT opportunity assessment, shareholder value diagnosis and IT investment prioritization

• IT strategy for mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, divestitures and carve-outs

• Strategies for all key components of IT, including information strategy, IT sourcing strategy, IT systems strategy and IT infrastructure strategy

Enterprise architecture—We help organizations establish and implement a vision, road map and governance for the use of information technology to address today’s business needs and support future growth. Our services comprise:

• Custom and framework-based enterprise architecture development

• Development and implementation of enterprise architecture governance and architecture team operating models

• Use of industry-specific enterprise architecture blueprints that leverage Accenture High Performance Business industry research and process models, as well as our extensive industry experience

IT transformation—Our IT transformation services help companies drive significant, sustained change to their IT organization’s processes, technology and culture. Our services comprise:

• Global IT operating model design and implementation
• IT governance and investment portfolio optimization
• IT solution delivery optimization
• IT workforce transformation