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Started by : sumitra dutta, Consultant, XYZ   06 23 2009 10:14:17 +0000
Industry : Technology ConsultingFunctional Area : New Technologies(Technology)
Activity:  101 views;  last activity : 07 06 2010 20:18:09 +0000

Strategic IT plays a vital role in an organization's business plan by improving efficiency, creating opportunities, and interacting with customers and vendors. But do we understand what their roles are? Lets have a brainstorming session on what roles these IT consultants play in improving the company's efficiency so that all of us can be on the learning side.

 
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1 Align IT strategy to support business
2 Execution of the project
3 Business Understanding and Economic Factors

Align IT strategy to support business

idea posted by Dawood Subedar Project Leader/Managing Consultant, ASDO Inc

IT does not exist to introduce technology for the sake of technology. Its there to help the business. If the business units cannot get the support they require, they will bypass IT. IT consultants need to understand the business and help the business managers understand how the planned use of technology can improve their current business processes and position them for the future.  Business will then readily support IT endeavours, will be more tolerant of IT shortcomings and will accept IT as partners in the business.

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In my opinion, IT is NOT for the sake of technology or for such a purpose;  It is for enabling business, efficiency, optimization of cost etc in order to achieve the business goal; But not sure about the consultants  priorities.

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by sumitra dutta, Consultant, XYZ  | 06 24 2009 08:23:08 +0000

Makes good sense. But IT has become such a big platform that nowadays it seems more like a necessity. There are areas where the use of IT can be avoided. But the mentality is such the company feels handicapped without it.

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Execution of the project

idea posted by sumitra dutta Consultant, XYZ

Sometimes a client will have a project planned and evaluated, and they simply need an IT consultant to complete it for them because there have been many instances wherein, the professionals of the company, in spite of all their experiences tend to make mistakes. If you have the skills to complete the job, this can be an easy task because you have the guidelines already set for you.

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Business Understanding and Economic Factors

idea posted by Mandar Joshi Product Development Manager, Thomson Reuters

I think in todays world for an IT Consultant and his parent organization its not merely important to implement the idea of the client. Its more important to bring value to the table by suggesting 5 better ways of executing the same application flow..moreover the consultant should also concentrate on long term prospects of the application and build it as open ended to leave the space for further enhancement of functionalities. The architecture should be open ended as well as driven with aspects of performance and reusability. Only in such cases can the client look upon upgrading or feature enhancement of his application which gives more ROI for the investment and long term and better business for the consultant

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