Annual Planning Optimization

Reducing cycle times for annual planning is becoming critical. Looking at annual planning activities as an organizational process allows us to improve traceability of investments to business outcomes, simplifying initiative selection. Ongoing process tracking enables our clients to make quick and effective course corrections as market conditions change. Annual Planning Optimization addresses the following challenges:

Is the annual planning process taking longer than is necessary? How are funding decisions tracked and adjusted? How is organizational impact represented in funding decisions? How are funding decisions for technology investments traced to business outcomes?

BPM Sanity Check

Provide impartial assessment of your organization’s BPM investments within the context of your business operating model. These assessments include financial, technological, risk, as well as organizational perspectives. Identify possible reallocation of BPM investments. BPM Sanity Check addresses the following challenges:

How LEAN should I be? What is BPM's relationship with SOA? Should BPM cut across Business Units?

SOA Sanity Check

Provide impartial assessments of your organization's SOA investments within the context of your business operating model. These assessments include financial, technological, risk, as well as organizational perspectives. In addition, we identify the possible reallocation of SOA investments. SOA Sanity Check addresses the following challenges:

What is the business value of SOA? How do you track the businesss value of SOA? How much SOA do you need? What is SOA's relationship with BPM?

Office of the CIO Development

An effective Office of the CIO increases the overall stakeholder understanding and satisfaction with Information Technology while providing the appropriate level of oversight to ensure successful delivery. Developing Office of the CIO addresses the following challenges:

How does an Office of the CIO contribute to the bottom line? What are the long term benefits of an Office of the CIO? What are the necessary perspectives to maintain proper oversight? Has the proposed IT Governance Model been optimized to delivery expectations? Are the right organizational tracking and reporting mechanisms in place for sustainable success? Have your technology assets been assessed to justify alignment with your current/future business operating model?

Initiative Cost-Benefit Analysis

SenseAgility's approach to cost-benefit analysis is quick and accurate because it incorporates capability-based thinking into the traditional process. The capabilities-based approach clearly links initiative benefits to strategic goals. Initiative Cost Benefit Analysis addresses the following challenges:

Can you clearly tie costs and benefits of your initiative to strategic goals? Does your organization have a consistent process in place to assess and rank the value of its initiatives? Do your in-house resources have the bandwidth to perform Cost Benefit Analysis?