Striking a Critical Balance

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Striking a Critical Balance IT Strategic Framing Session March 2008

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Illustrates the role of IT in positioning any business it supports along a common-to-differentiated value continuum so that the business can participate more effectively in the market

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Striking a Critical Balance

IT Strategic Framing Session

March 2008

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The Critical Continuum

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Common vis-à-vis Differentiated Value

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Bringing Technology to the Customer’s Business

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Our Value-Add: Integration and Modeling

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PORTFOLIOWhere the Customer’s Interests Are Focused

Delivering Value to Meet the Customer’s Interests

ASSETSWhat the Customer Owns to Meet Interests

PRACTICESHow the Customer Meets Interests

The Company That “Owns” the Triangle, Owns the Customer’s Buying Decision

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“Becoming the Integrative Agent:Proving the Pieces

Fit and Work Together”

“Solution Paid for byIncreased Value”

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Portfolio

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Includes Source CodeCharge for Software

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The Value-Add Space Where IT Plays…

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…And Where the Customer Is Won or Lost!

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Framing Next Steps

• You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

• If you want to build change, you have to start everywhere at once. – Margaret Mead

• The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein