Strategy and Change

IBM Global Business Services' Strategy and Change solutions help clients transform their organisations and operations by:

- Framing opportunities and challenges into specific strategic options

- Formulating actionable strategies that intersect business and technology

- Accelerating implementation through tailored change programs

Our services meet today's most pressing business needs:

• Business value from technology:
  Deriving new business positioning (models, channels, markets) and customer value from the capabilities of new and future technologies
• Enterprise Architecture (EA):
  Building an architecture — analogous to a 'city plan' — for the way IT should be used to meet a company's business needs
• Growth/customer strategies:
  Helping companies outgrow their competitors and translate that growth into shareholder value
• IT management:
  Optimising the operational effectiveness of the IT function, balancing cost management with the effective delivery of IT service
• Six Sigma/performance transformation:
  Optimising performance throughout an organisation by delivering improvements linked to company strategy, core processes and critical customer requirements
• Strategic Profit Improvement (SPI):
  Delivering an integrated, strategic analysis of the opportunities for improvement and the recommended plan to implement them
• Technology integration:
  Bringing the benefits of our deep experience with change management and implementing technology solutions into a modular solution that can be incorporated into any technology program
• Transformation:
  Helping clients aggressively address the core strategic questions confronting them, including repositioning assets, disaggregating parts of the company, redefining customer programs and developing new revenue streams

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