Information Technology

IT Transformation and Strategy:

In recent years, companies have invested heavily in information technology (IT) while trying to maintain competitive parity, support robust growth and track ROI. However, in many cases, it can be difficult to gauge accurately the value derived from IT and to identify the pragmatic options that will allow a business to segment risk and drive growth, while simultaneously streamlining costs and improving performance.

Without the right strategy, organisations have driven huge complexity into their IT infrastructures and created much confusion within their businesses. It should come as no surprise that executives remain unsure of the returns they are receiving from the IT function and why their IT costs keep rising.

To approach these issues objectively, Booz & Company takes a revolutionary view of IT as a business operating within a business, and addresses a focused agenda.

Structuring IT to support and enable business growth in line with the overall organisation’s business strategy through initiatives that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness. This approach requires IT executives to engage their firms in a dialogue about how and where IT drives the business.
Reducing IT cost and complexity, thereby minimising risk and challenging IT to ‘flex’ better with the organisation rather than act as a fixed and increasing cost base.
Increasing the transparency into IT costs and performance. This allows the business to understand the value of what it is buying and to facilitate proper economic trade-offs between IT and non-IT spending.
Building IT into a business within a business. This means instituting world-class practices focused on pragmatic outcomes.

At Booz & Company , we have the skills and experience to help businesses and organisations maximise their IT return.

Our capabilities to support this agenda span four areas:

IT strategy
Business value capture
IT operations and delivery
Technology architecture

IT Architecture and Design

The technical capabilities of our IT professionals are recognised throughout government and industry, including by the world’s leading hardware and software manufacturers.

Across industries, Booz & Company has made the mission of our clients ‘our mission’, and we apply this in-depth understanding of client-specific objectives, resources, and constraints to build business and government systems ideally suited to support mission requirements.

Booz & Company team members specialise in IT architecture and design solutions that strategically plan client architectures to be more competitive in the marketplace, and to safeguard information and communications. We provide the entire range of technical and management skills to support multi-level security systems, electronic key management systems, and secure workstations, as well as internet-based solutions designed to support global implementation.

We have capabilities in the following areas:

Baseline assessment
Requirements analysis
IT investment management training
Operational enhancement
Client-server architectures/open systems
Multi-level security systems
Web-based architectures

Technology Transfer:

Booz & Company offers clients more than 90 years of management and technology consulting experience. We work to help clients achieve best practice levels of technology use and develop long-term strategies for technology initiatives.

We’ve assisted government agencies and major corporations worldwide in assessing and improving their technology infrastructure and building client ownership of implemented solutions. With our expertise in the broad areas of strategy, training, engineering, program management, information technology, and systems development, Booz & Company understands the competitive factors that can trigger or inhibit the adoption of candidate technologies.

We provide a full range of services tailored to help our clients achieve essential advantage with the replacement of and migration to new information systems, as well as to address assured access, financial planning, and dual-use considerations.

We have capabilities in the following areas:

Return on investment (ROI) analysis
Funding strategy development
Market research and analysis
Dual-use technology analysis
Industrial sector assessments
Implementation planning
Business process redesign
System rollout support
Program management support

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For more information on information technology services, contact Branko Panich on +61 3 9221 1900 or email anzsea.enquiries@booz.com.