Architecting IT to enable business success

A leading South African asset finance business trusted BSG to help them transform their IT function to support the needs of an evolving digital business.

overview of the clients needs
  • Consolidate and optimise IT services to better manage current and future business demands
  • Enable IT to be more responsive to customers, through a future-focused IT operating model
  • As part of the IT operating model, create clarity of supply and demand by defining service level agreements through an IT service catalogue
  • Define how IT should operate to effectively support current business demand
  • Address future business needs by defining how IT should be positioned in a federated business model
  • Increased levels of collaboration and synergy between IT and business segments
  • Business empowered with the autonomy to enable customer centricity, by allocating IT functions to business segments
  • Increased flexibility enabled by a modular framework with ownership of functions in the federated context Better decision making and reporting enabled a clear view of all 200 services that IT provides
  • Better focus on measuring real progress against strategic themes, through a balanced scorecard, which was cascaded to the six key functional metrics within IT

The IT operating model conceptualised and delivered by BSG has enabled a more responsive IT function, improved productivity and increased business agility.

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