Strategy and design consulting services

An IT strategy that considers technology a mere support tool for delivery of business processes is no longer sustainable. An inefficient IT architecture or weak alignment between your IT and business strategies can inhibit the growth of your business. Your IT strategy and architecture must reinforce IT as a key enabler for your business growth-closely aligning with your business vision to promote innovation and improve service quality.

Strategy and design consulting services from IBM can help you successfully assess, plan and design an enterprisewide IT strategy and architecture that supports your business goals. Using our expertise and proven methods, these services can provide a strategic road map and technical design for an effective implementation. We can help you identify ways to reduce costs, streamline your infrastructure, improve the quality of service delivery and realize a faster return on investment. Our Strategy and design consulting services include:

• IBM IT Transformation Strategy and Design Services. We can help you create an innovative and dynamic infrastructure designed to deliver improved business responsiveness and return on investment (ROI). We integrate best practices to help transform and optimize your IT. Following a detailed assessment of where you are, we can help you develop a strategy and road map for where you want to be, including an ROI analysis. We can also help you design the solution architecture.
• IBM Service Management Strategy and Design Services. We can help you assess, plan and design your IT service governance and management capabilities. Using industry best practices such as the Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) and the IT Infrastructure Library® (ITIL®), we can help you create business-focused IT services with improved service capabilities.
• Strategy and Design Services for a Cloud Infrastructure. We can help you gain the information and insight you need to make a strategic decision on where and how to implement cloud computing in your environment. We can develop a roadmap of IT improvements required over a 2-3 year period to implement cloud computing, as it is most appropriate for your environment, constraints and business needs. We help you to identify where cloud solutions can reduce your costs or provide additional value and we can accelerate your cloud deployment by removing impediments to successful implementation.

As a global technology and services leader, we integrate our intellectual capital and experience from both IT and business consulting services. IT strategy and architecture services from IBM combines our broad expertise, experience, best practices, tools, methodologies, assets and proven delivery methods with a pragmatic approach to planning and design. Our versatile reference architecture can provide blueprints for you to build optimized and agile IT environments.