Co-management services

Do you feel that your IT organisation could be delivering more value to your business? IBM's co-management services provide guidance with process transformation, IT governance, application testing and architecture, and organisational change.

With budgets being reduced and customer expectations for time-to-market and project backlog increasing, it is critical to ensure that investments in applications are producing maximum business value in today's world of continual change. High costs, delayed projects, and the constant challenge of attracting and retaining key IT skills can produce an environment where it is difficult to support business goals and enable business flexibility with applications.

Business challenges

• Do you have the capabilities and skills to manage all of the IT projects required to meet your firm's business objectives?
• Do you need to deliver greater value to your business by implementing a new IT model focused on innovation and differentiation?
• Are you looking to improve the relationship between IT and business leaders?
• Do you need to generate significant cost reductions for re-investment in your company's strategic business initiatives?

Co-management services that we offer:

• Process Transformation. This increases speed to market, stimulates innovation, and helps increase quality.
• IT Governance model. This model helps to align your business strategy with your IT goals.
• Application Testing. Reduce risk and enable faster delivery at higher quality.
• Applications Architecture and Revitalisation. Transform your application portfolio for a more adaptable technology environment.
• Organisational Change and Delivery Excellence. Build a strong internal project delivery competency to accelerate the delivery of business goals.

Why IBM

IBM collaborates with businesses to transform IT organisations to a high-performance unit through targeted transformation strategies and hands-on staff mentoring. IBM acts as a strategic partner to help achieve low cost and high performance application development and management. We can help organisations continue to invest in people and new projects, while retaining more control than a fully outsourced environment. IBM recommends a program of integrated initiatives that address people, processes and technology areas to achieve the strategic objectives of the IT organisation and accelerate business and IT collaboration.

As one of the largest providers of consulting, systems integration and application services, IBM has unrivalled experience optimising application investments and aligning them to business requirements. IBM Application Services' industry expertise, world-renowned research capabilities, and global footprint can help increase productivity, accelerate implementation cycles and empower growth for companies and organisations around the world.