Technology Strategy
Businesses rely on technology to enable their wider business strategy and achieve competitive advantage either through operational excellence or agility and innovation. Aligning these upfront and co-developing an integrated technology strategy is essential to create and sustain long-term value.
The biggest challenge is understanding how all the pieces fit together:
- How can technology enable new business models?
- Does the new technology work with your legacy hardware and software and existing capabilities?
- Will the technology service your needs now and into the future?
- How will innovation in technology affect your strategy?
Areas of focus
- Practical technology strategy
- Understanding technology implications
- Making the business case
- Regaining technology oversight
Practical technology strategy
We make sure that technology ties in with our client’s overall business strategy, supports their key business drivers, and can be realistically executed. Our experts apply an iterative approach to technology strategy - reducing broad ideas down to a small number of ideal solutions.
We also demonstrate how each solution meets your business goals and supports desired business capabilities - showing the art of what’s possible through available technology solutions.
Understanding technology implications
It pays to understand the implications of the technology across the entire business, and to tie everything into a single, integrated roadmap for technological transformation.
Allowing any corporate function to master the conversation around technology strategy will result in a solution that favours their goals. By bringing together specialists across a number of disciplines we create a business-led strategy that will enable business objectives to realise in the long-term.
Making the business case
Taking measured risk for strategic benefits is much more effective than being overly risk averse and conservative. With specialists ranging from technology consultants through to business experts, PwC is perfectly positioned to help the business case for the new technology strategy and to assist our clients through their transformation process.
By using portfolio investment management techniques – to balance risks and returns, we develop a tangible case for change and an actionable roadmap, allowing our clients to drive a tailored, pragmatic and holistic business case for the transformation.
Regaining technology oversight
Staff tend to use a host of devices, apps and other hardware without any oversight by the IT department. To stay relevant, IT must deliver a technology strategy that fulfils these unmet needs without adding unnecessary complexity to an already complex landscape.
Modern businesses need to be:
- Fast and responsive - for the "always on" customer
- Fully mobile - to connect people on the move
- Using specialist software - to minimise work-arounds
- Looking at virtualisation and the cloud - to reduce costs and increase performance
- Plugged into the broader ecosystem - to leverage economies of scale and enhance operations through service integration
Our technology strategy consulting makes it easy to stay ahead of trends, delivering the most effective technology strategy to enable your entire business.
