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Version 1.004.2016

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Question 1: How strong will bethe impact of new technologies(information technology, mobiledata, sensorics, robotics, dataanalytics, digitization) on yourfuture business model?

Does your company need a new, business‐oriented IT strategy?Please derive here your key topics and their resulting business value.

Do you have enough financial resources to implement current orplanned projects even in an ineffective or inefficient way?

Continue your drive!You don't need a new IT strategy: Your current IT meets your needs,new technologies are not getting very important for your business.Friendly reminder: You should look frequently in the rearview mirrorto detect overtaking companies in time!

Are you willing and able to resolve now the issues and problemsin your IT?

Please check: A

Risk of skidding and dead end!Despite high IT cost, you realize little business benefit from yourIT. You risk to miss strategic decisions for your IT and your business.However, an IT strategy helps only if you really want to changeyour company's IT and business management.

Can you clearly derive IT objectives and investment prioritiesfrom your business strategy?

Current needs for action in your IT

Do you have sufficient budget for IT‐enabled businessinnovations, are you investing in the right IT topics?

How much time do your IT projects need to realize even simplebusiness requirements?

How satisfied are you with the quality of your IT projects (interms of functionality, timeliness, costs)?

Do you have enough resources and skills for your current andplanned IT projects?

Does the delivered quality of your IT systems (e.g., availability,error rates, recovery times) correspond to your business needs?

How much are you satisfied with your current IT service providers(cost, quality, customer and business orientation, innovation)?

How strong are you bound to your IT service providers and ITvendors, how big are switching costs?

Are the responsibilities regarding your IT clarified and accepted ‐across business units and geographies and between business andIT?

Need help creating your IT strategy?

Trainings for your employees to derive your company's IT strategy:

http://seminars.sauerborn.ch

Management workshops to define the tailor‐made IT strategyfor your company:

http://it‐strategy‐workshop.sauerborn.ch

You have the need for a new IT strategy and you aredetermined to implement it. Please find here yourareas of action and corresponding business goals.

A. Business IT alignmentIT projects are aligned with the business strategy, IT investmentschanneled into the right projects, business objectives are clear

B. IT architectureShorter time‐to‐market, reduced IT operating costs and complexity

C. Project portfolio managementIT projects are prioritized according business strategy and availableresources; high reliability of go/no‐go decisions for projects

D. Methodology of project managementProfessional project management to increase quality of IT projects

E. IT controlling/allocation of IT budgetsTransparency on IT costs, clear allocation of IT budgets instrategically important areas

F. IT sourcing/IT contract managementMarket‐conform conditions for IT services, consciously‐manageddependencies from IT suppliers, reduced operating risks

G. IT service managementClear‐defined IT service catalog of the IT organization (incl. qualityindicators/service levels, costs, planned volumes)

H. IT organization and IT governanceImproved interaction between business and IT as well as betweenIT service providers and IT; streamlined IT management processes

I. IT skills and resourcesHigh and cost effective service quality of IT by optimized skillsand sizing of the IT organization

please checkhere

Question 2: Overall, how satisfiedare you with your IT (in terms ofbusiness orientation, projectquality, value add, systemperformance, cost, innovation)?

Question 2

Question 1

Please assess the overall situation of your company's ITalong the following two questions:

Please check: A, C,E

Please check: B, D,F, H, I

Please check: B, D,H, I

Please check: C, F,H, I

Please check: F, G,H, I

Please check: F, G,H

Please check: H

Please check: B, F