Major Food And Beverage Company Maximizes IT Investments By Developing IT “Roadmap”

Situation - New business priorities, Competing demands for IT resources and dated IT infrastructure drive need for new direction:

A major food and beverage company identified significant opportunities to leverage information technology as a competitive weapon.  However, IT was bogged down with enhancements, support and maintenance projects, preventing launch of major strategic projects.  This deadlock, complicated by a dated technology infrastructure and distant business – IT relationships was significantly impeding the business goals of the company.

Solution - Develop IT Roadmap to establish priorities, initiate application and infrastructure projects and strategic sourcing to implement the plan.

A priority framework was established to rationalize application and infrastructure initiatives.  The organization embraced a modular, service-based approach to application development and a sourcing strategy to engage partners for key IT services.  IT expenditures were established using industry benchmarks and major projects were planned along a timeline that aligned with business priorities.