Moving to Transformational

by Sal Serra 9. January 2012 13:33

The global business unit is meeting within the next two weeks.  The business unit leadership wants to be educated on IS strategy and services.  There are a number of factors that limit a drive toward tranformational strategy (in my thinking) including: local project funding, limited shared-services (leading to local hosting), non-standard business processes.

What would you advise to bring the business from 'don't know what they don't know' to 'know they don't know?'

There is significant organizatioinal learning required to move from local => regional => global.  We all know it is easy to say global -- it's not so easy to behave global.

Thank you.  Sal

 

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1/13/2012 9:52:28 AM #

José Carlos Eiras

Dear Sal,

Nice to hear from you…. Thanks for your post…

To make this short, I suggest the following:

1.  Determine what business processes are strategic to the business and/or unique. Make sure everyone agrees. Then it is easy to say that the business should invest on the strategic processes to exploit the competitive advantage that these processes bring. Investment in unique processes that are not strategic should be minimized.
2.  Business processes that are neither strategic nor unique should be leveraged, streamlined, centralized, outsourced (if makes sense) and should bring important cost reduction to fund item #1.

Hope this helps…

José Carlos

José Carlos Eiras United States

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