Businesses are constantly looking for ways to increase their productivity and efficiency. They create their value propositions, place their innovative idea(s) out in the market space try to gain a competitive advantage within their respective industries. Gaining a competitive advantage for an organization doesn’t simply rely on sales figures; it means effectively communicating throughout the entire organization. By effectively communicating with the information technology (IT) department an organization can continue stay on top of its competition and understand the inner workings of all departments.
Why is it important to align an organization’s business model with the IT department? A recent survey conducted by Serena polled a selection of business executives and professionals. Additional findings are detailed below:
“- 59 percent of respondents cited delivering applications faster as the top application development priority in 2013
- 48 percent cited better alignment to business needs as the top priority, more than double the percentage of last year’s survey
- 62 percent of respondents cited managing application development as a business process as “very important to extremely important” to their organization
- 61 percent said having end-to-end traceability (from code in production back to the business requirements) is “very important to extremely important”
- 36 percent cited developing mobile applications as an important development priority in 2013.
Almost 100 [professionals] participated in the survey – many senior level IT executives from financial services, public sector, IT services and healthcare organizations.”*
What does this mean for those professionals operating inside the IT departments today? By making sure management understands the needs of IT, an effective business model will be sure to follow. Innovation will coincide with the overall business model. Having the ability to therefore, report effectively on what is going on inside the IT department is critical. Producing information which can be read and understood from the ground up is imperative for business. To learn more on how Heroix can help the IT pro product these reports, check out www.heroix.com or send us an email at info@heroix.com
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