In today’s global, digitized economy, businesses need Information Technology (IT) to support rapid and agile innovation. Unfortunately, many organizations don’t get adequate value from their IT investments due to a piece-meal, non-strategic approach that fails to align the IT platform and organization with the company’s operating model.
 
Companies with non-aligned IT spend excessive time and money maintaining systems and data stores that are difficult to upgrade, that don’t help to integrate or standardize business processes, and may even hinder the ability to respond to changing business conditions. Because of unaligned IT, many companies come to see their IT investment as a strategic liability, instead of a strategic asset.

Skyline’s IT Business Consulting Practice provides businesses with the strategy, mentoring, and leadership skills needed to transform IT from a liability into a strategic asset. We’ll help your entire organization see IT as a value-added business resource and teach you to integrate it into critical business processes and to drive profitable growth, control costs, and improve customer service.
 
Skyline calls this Business Ready IT.

Skyline’s IT Business Consultants will help you design, build and deploy Business Ready IT by:

• Helping you identify and understand your business’s operating model as a foundation for defining a robust IT services portfolio integrated into your company’s critical business processes. 
• Helping your company’s senior leadership team reach a consensus on the role IT plays at your company, how it should be funded, how IT impacts each business unit or function, and what business value IT must provide to support your customers. We’ll also help you determine the level of commitment needed by leadership to transform IT into an integrated business enabler, determine which critical areas, functions, or applications within IT are “broken” and what each senior leader thinks should be done to repair them.
• Guiding and mentoring your company in best-of-breed lifecycle methodologies, innovative business analysis techniques, and thorough quality assurance programs that provide measureable long-term business value.
• Providing you with program and project managers certified in PMI and Agile/Scrum, senior quality assurance professionals, and IIBA-trained business analysts.