How Beyond IT Helps IT Vendors
IT is becoming broader and more complex every day. IT professionals have to devote so much effort to becoming experts in their specialties, and to understand how their discipline fits into the much broader IT puzzle, that they have little time for their real job—to anticipate the even more rapid and complex changes that are buffeting their companies and serve as catalysts to help business leaders understand how to most effectively use IT to address broad business requirements.
Although most leading IT vendors provide compelling IT solutions, a number also have world-class capabilities in a number of disciplines that are increasingly required by all companies in all industries—capabilities such as building and managing globally distributed workforces, creating and incenting an innovation culture within their companies, and effectively promoting leading-edge corporate social responsibility programs. A growing number of companies have begun to incorporate their own internal learnings and best practices into their value propositions and deliverables. Some are even helping their clients develop next-generation products.
Beyond IT not only helps IT vendors enhance their own value propositions, it also helps corporate CIOs, IT executives and, eventually, line-of-business executives to more effectively leverage the capabilities of their IT partners to transform their companies into globally competitive organizations.
We are currently:
- Developing case studies of successful transformations;
- Providing objective assessments of required tools and partners;
- Compiling databases of transformation tools and best practices around key corporate mandates; and
- Working to create hosted communities through which aspiring globally competitive organizations can share experiences among themselves.