I specialize in helping companies align their technology strategy with their core business objectives. My expertise is focused on addressing the most pressing challenges in a dynamic business environment, including:

1. Digital Transformation Initiatives:
   • Problem: Legacy systems hindering agility, inability to adopt new digital business models, disconnected customer experiences.
   • My Role: Designing a target state architecture for digital transformation and strategies to enable seamless digital interactions and rapid innovation. I will map the journey from the current state to the desired future state.
2. IT Cost Optimization and Efficiency/ IT Standards:
   • Problem: High IT operational costs, redundant systems, inefficient resource utilization, lack of clear IT investment ROI.
   • My Role: Identifying duplicate applications, consolidating IT landscapes, optimizing infrastructure, rationalizing software licenses, and defining standards to reduce complexity and improve cost-effectiveness.
3. Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Integration:
   • Problem: Incompatible IT systems, data silos, duplicated functionality, and cultural clashes preventing synergy realization post-merger.
   • My Role: Assessing the IT landscape of both entities, developing integration strategies for applications and infrastructure, identifying rationalization opportunities, and creating a phased roadmap for a unified IT environment.
4. Business Process Optimization:
   • Problem: Inefficient workflows, manual errors, lack of automation, poor visibility into end-to-end processes.
   • My Role: Mapping current state business processes, identifying bottlenecks and areas for improvement, designing target state processes supported by appropriate technology, and recommending automation solutions (e.g., RPA, BPM suites).
5. Vendor Selection and Technology Standards:
   • Problem: Sprawl of unmanaged technologies, difficulty integrating disparate systems, poor vendor management, lack of architectural coherence.
   • My Role: Defining technology standards and policies, evaluating and selecting appropriate technologies and vendors, creating a technology roadmap, and ensuring new acquisitions align with the enterprise architecture vision.
6. Improving Business-IT Alignment:
   • Problem: IT projects not delivering business value, communication gaps between business and IT, IT strategy not supporting business goals.
   • My Role: Translating business strategy into IT requirements and architectural principles, creating roadmaps that show how IT initiatives support business objectives, and fostering collaboration between business stakeholders and IT teams.