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As information technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace, many organizations feel rushed to implement IT solutions in a patchwork manner in order to resolve near term issues. This often results in an increasing number of stand-alone IT applications and infrastructure without any direction aligned to enterprise organizational strategy and goals.

Within medium to large enterprises, the problem can grow to where each distinct business unit has a unique IT infrastructure and implementation strategy. This uniqueness will often prevent the integration and sharing of information at the enterprise level, and increase the cost of supporting different IT applications that perform the same functions.

LABBLEE Corporation has worked with government and commercial organizations to develop enterprise-level IT strategic plans. Our approach is to apply a structured but flexible methodology to assess the current “as-is” business and IT environment, and to develop a single future “to-be” business vision and supporting IT strategy.

This requires that we create an environment where all organization stakeholders, including internal IT personnel, external IT customers, and key subject matter experts, can interact in a collaborative manner. The result of this collaborative process is the creation of a documented strategic information resource plan, aligning long-term organizational goals with realistic user expectations.

LABBLEE's approach also provides a framework for implementing the integrated information resource plan incrementally, while the evolving the existing IT environment to a portfolio management (PfM) approach.

LABBLEE Corporation developed a strategic information resource plan for a major Federal Government organization. LABBLEE performed an initial assessment of the existing business processes and supporting IT applications and infrastructure. The assessment methodology utilized one-on-one interviews with key organizational stakeholders and subject matter experts, and facilitated sessions with selected teams.

With the existing business and IT baseline defined, LABBLEE worked with key functional and technology stakeholders and experts to develop an integrated enterprise-level vision of the future business state. In addition, the IT and process enablers, required to successfully reach that future state, were defined in these collaborative sessions.

LABBLEE did specific assessments of current and future information technology trends to assure that the recommended IT solution was both realistic and achievable within the organization and its parent government agency.
A key part of the strategic plan was to implement the recommendations and the overall vision. Because of the significant size and overall functional scope of the organization and its user base, the implementation plan required an incremental and holistic approach to evolve the legacy systems and acquire new capabilities.

The plan assumed that business requirements would change over time, and that the strategic plan would need to be periodically updated and refined. As such, the project succeeded because its approach was built on a dynamic strategic plan, responsive to customer requirements and priorities.

For more information about LABBLEE's proven approach to developing strategic information resource plans, contact us at: IT@labblee.com.