IT Effectiveness

Information Technology is critical to an organisations's operations and competitiveness. However up to 25% of an organisation's total IT spend is wasted or used unwisely. In today's business and regulatory environment, it's no surprise many senior executives have serious and valid concerns about whether their IT function is delivering maximum value to their business.

Client situations

If you are seeking to achieve any of the following, our team can help:

  • IT strategy not directly contributing to business objectives.
  • IT under-performing, or costing too much.
  • Increase understanding of the benefits and opportunities of IT outsourcing.
    Measurement of the performance of your IT department.
  • Reduce the cost of ownership of IT.
  • Maintain and integrate legacy systems more effectively.
  • Implications of regulatory changes (Basel, IFRS, Sarbox) for your IT systems and governance.
  • Business outgrowing your current IT systems or IT cannot support your business processes.

How PwC can help you

Our experienced team can assist your organisation improve the alignment between IT and the business, and we can demonstrate the value IT can deliver.

We assist organisations to reduce unnecessary spend but retain the ability for IT to support future business strategy, operations, processes and regulatory requirements.

PricewaterhouseCoopers can advise on agile business strategies, and the implementation of strategic IT on-time and within budget.

Services we provide include the following:

Aligning IT to the business

We assist companies to define their decisions and accountability in IT governance, ensuring appropriate management of all IT-related matters occurs within the organisation. This includes strategic alignment, IT value delivery and resource/risk/performance management.

Delivering Enterprise Security

Considering security from day one will reduce your risk profile and save time and effort.

Managing IT cost and value

Based on standard industry practice frameworks for IT cost and value measurement, we assist our clients to better manage costs and budgets, understand the utilisation of current IT spend, identify cost and business drivers, and articulate the value that IT contributes to the organisation.

Making Large IT projects perform

Just delivering on-time and on-budget is only the first step. Today’s IT projects must deliver and leverage real business benefits. We have the experience, methodologies and practitioners to help.

Selection and Implementation

Through an analysis of the business applications portfolio, we identify areas for improvement, develop the requirements, and assist in the package and vendor evaluation and selection.

Sourcing and Service Management

Taking our clients’ specific conditions into consideration, we help specify and select the right systems for their business, develop the business case and service level agreements, and advise on funding and risk management.