IT Effectiveness - Adding value from IT investment

Information Technology and its issues

Information Technology (IT) has become critical to businesses operations and an important factor influencing their competitiveness in the global economy.

Being among companies top five expenditures, the effective IT management is a top priority for senior company executives. In the mean time an average of 10 to 25% of a company's total IT spend is inefficient or used unwisely.

With today’s complex compliancy regulations, there are serious, valid concerns about the risks IT poses on organisations and the accountability of costs. It is expected that IT provide better controls and transparency, advance efforts to mitigate fraud and risk, and comply with regulations.

Controlling costs and ensuring efficient operations also continue to be unabated demands, while at the same time IT customer satisfaction is becoming an important parameter on the IT management dashboard.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory’s IT Effectiveness provides practical advice to senior executives on how to manage and develop IT for their business in line with these challenges. PwC can help You to achieve sustainable IT effectiveness.

Your IT challenges

  • to demonstrate the value IT delivers to the business and how it supports your business strategy
  • to improve IT effectiveness by better sourcing and managing your IT services
  • to be prepared to respond to regulatory requirements
  • to improve security and controls
  • to reduce unnecessary spend
How PwC can help you
  • Through ensuring that IT spending and initiatives are aligned with the business goals we’ve helped the world’s largest organizations improve performance, manage risk, achieve compliance, manage cost and deliver value.
  • We assist you in managing IT as soundly and rigorously as a business.
  • We help you to adopt leading practices in IT management, quality assurance and IT governance.
  • We deliver insight based on comparative evidence and fresh, compelling options for structuring IT and taking advantage of technology.
  • We improve the effectiveness of relationships between IT, the organisation and external suppliers.

PwC’s Solutions

Our solutions are tailored to your business objectives and focus on few main areas:

Aligning IT to the Business

  • IT Governance (CobIT, ITIL, BS7799, ISO17799 )
  • Risk Assessment
  • IT Strategy
  • IT Operation and IT Organisation
  • IT Asset Management
  • IT Due Diligence/Valuation
Project Services
  • Advise on IT Best Practices on project governance, risk and controls
  • Support in Project Office and Project Management
  • Change Management
  • Training
IT Spend Analysis
  • Spend Analysis and Benchmarking
  • Cost Modelling
  • Cost management and optimisation
Data Management
  • Revenue Assurance
  • Data Migration Support
  • Fraud Investigation
  • Data Mining
Security
  • Security and Controls implementation and reviews (SAP, Oracle)
  • Identity Management
  • Business Continuity Planning/Disaster Recovery Planning
  • IT Security review
IT Sourcing and Service Management
  • Business case, selection and SLA development
  • Sourcing Risk Management
  • IT Performance Management
Package Selection and Implementation
  • Business case development
  • Package and supplier selection/validation
  • Blueprint Design/System Implementation
Compliance
  • Support in Compliance Framework Design
  • Regulatory Compliance Reviews