Delivering Business Value With It At Hefty Hardware Case Analysis
Delivering Business Value with IT at Hefty Hardware
By
Vengamma Thalacheeru
Wilmington University
IT Policy and Strategy 7100
December 8, 2014
Table of Content
Introduction 3
Key Concerns 3
Business Issues 3
IT Issues 4
Business and IT Alignment 4
Analysis 7
Conclusion 7
References 8
Delivering Business Value with IT at Hefty Hardware Introduction
The vice president Cheryl O’Shea of Hefty’s new store launch named savvy expressed her view about IT who is failing to deliver projects on time and need to be outsourced to complete the project on time. This failure is mainly due to the IT people lacking the minimum knowledge on Hefty’s business process. She insisted to frame a plan for an effective outcome. Upon the initial analysis of Hefty’s business it showed many fields to be lacking like infrastructure, productivity and bandwidth to be included in the plan. Apart from the view on IT department the COO, Glen Vogel mentioned Jenny, Account Manger of IT department who always attends the business meetings and delivers effectively the business strategies to IT department. He is well versed the business …show more content…
Technical department administrators can plan and put forward recommendations that might be custom-made to guarantee the Return of Investment (ROI). Business executives can go to the seminars and meetings of IT department to enhance their understanding of the specialized abilities and confinements of the organization (Rouse, 2006). “Business Alignment, the degree to which IT applications, infrastructure and organization enable and support the business strategy and processes, as well as the process to realize this.”(Sylvius et al,
By
Vengamma Thalacheeru
Wilmington University
IT Policy and Strategy 7100
December 8, 2014
Table of Content
Introduction 3
Key Concerns 3
Business Issues 3
IT Issues 4
Business and IT Alignment 4
Analysis 7
Conclusion 7
References 8
Delivering Business Value with IT at Hefty Hardware Introduction
The vice president Cheryl O’Shea of Hefty’s new store launch named savvy expressed her view about IT who is failing to deliver projects on time and need to be outsourced to complete the project on time. This failure is mainly due to the IT people lacking the minimum knowledge on Hefty’s business process. She insisted to frame a plan for an effective outcome. Upon the initial analysis of Hefty’s business it showed many fields to be lacking like infrastructure, productivity and bandwidth to be included in the plan. Apart from the view on IT department the COO, Glen Vogel mentioned Jenny, Account Manger of IT department who always attends the business meetings and delivers effectively the business strategies to IT department. He is well versed the business …show more content…
Technical department administrators can plan and put forward recommendations that might be custom-made to guarantee the Return of Investment (ROI). Business executives can go to the seminars and meetings of IT department to enhance their understanding of the specialized abilities and confinements of the organization (Rouse, 2006). “Business Alignment, the degree to which IT applications, infrastructure and organization enable and support the business strategy and processes, as well as the process to realize this.”(Sylvius et al,