Do you have an actionable strategy?A clear and efficient investment plan that positions a company for success starts with the proper understanding of the business model. Understanding how an organization creates and delivers value is the foundation for planning where it needs to be and how it navigates the competitive landscape to seize the right opportunities. Capability based planning translates a company’s business model and strategic objectives into required building blocks that identify what is needed to succeed. Comparing where a company is today to where it needs to be, drives investments in capabilities that need to be enabled or enhanced, and away from capabilities that are not directly linked to delivering value.
Are all components of your organization aligned?All companies can be broken down by the people, processes, information and technology that make them run. Successful organizations optimize how these components operate in conjunction to achieve shared business objectives. Using proven frameworks and methodologies based in enterprise architecture form the strategic information base that analyzes the relationships between these components, and informs key decisions required to achieve a desired state.
Do you have plans to get where you need to be?It is a typical situation where a high level strategy is defined, but it is difficult to interpret how to execute on it. Business blueprints take strategic planning down to a more tangible level, usually focused on a subset of the enterprise, and inform decision making. The process to create a blueprint includes clearly defining the problem statement for the area at hand, assessing the current state business and technology environments, establishing a clear vision and structure for what the future state should be, and developing an executable roadmap for how to get from where you are to where you need to be. Having this in place provides a vehicle to focus investments in the right places that are tied to strategic objectives, and allows for the mobilization and coordination of the right program activities that need to align to achieve common goals.
