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Business and IT Strategy
Organizations typically focus on two key IT strategies.

• They use Information Technology as a competitive differentiator.
• They use IT to reduce operational costs and drive efficiency.

Yes, your organization uses IT – but to what extent varies widely from industry to industry.  Regardless of which business sector you serve, how do you know your IT investments are creating value?
IT strategy includes four key components:

• Stakeholder Review and Strategic Alignment
• Application Direction
• Technical Infrastructure Direction
• IT Organization Direction

We will integrate these components in the development of your IT Strategy. 

Effective Business-IT Alignment optimizes the value of IT to your enterprise.  Mills and Associates will help your IT leaders:

• ensure that IT funding and solutions align with business strategies
• organize IT's financial, technical, and human resources around business value
• provide oversight of IT-related activities to manage IT-related risks.

Mills and Associations can help you define the role of IT in your organization, ensuring there is a strong and clear relationship between IT investment decisions and the organization’s overall strategies, goals, and objectives. 

Project Management
Project success relies on sustainable project management tools to achieve outcomes and realise benefits that provide the best value to the stakeholders.

• Mills and Associates uses proven project methodology (Project Management Institute PMBOK methodology) to help you deliver projects on-time, on-budget and on-scope.
• We can assist your organization in setting up a Project Management Office (PMO). The PMO is the source of documentation, guidance and metrics on the practice of project management and execution.
• In addition, we can assist in Project Portfolio Management (PPM) methods for analyzing and collectively managing a group of current or proposed projects based on multiple key characteristics. The fundamental objective of PPM is to determine the optimal mix and sequencing of proposed projects to best achieve your organization's overall goals – hard economic measures, business strategy goals, or technical strategy goals – while honouring constraints imposed by management or external real-world factors.

Mills and Associates can provide effective project management expertise to ensure that project results meet stakeholder expectations.

Board IT Oversight
Boards and management often focus their attention and governance on finance, personnel, capital/physical assets, and intellectual property, but they must also to extend governance to IT. 
Who is responsible for IT oversight?  It is the responsibility of the Board of Directors. 

• As part of the organization's overall governance, IT oversight consists of the structures and processes to ensure that IT sustains the organization's strategies and objectives.
• In the past, organizations focused on financial governance with the mandates of the Audit Committees expanding.  Today that practice of stewardship also extends to IT as boards begin to understand the depth and reliance on IT in their enterprise.