Business IT Alignment
Achieving the alignment of a company's business side with its IT aspect is still at the top of many an executive's agenda, but this reconciliation is something the majority of companies have yet to achieve.Part of the reason for this is technological and part is communicational. Traditionally, ensuring the IT department aligned with the rest of the company was seen as the CIO’s job, partly because of the esoteric nature of the role and IT’s historic growth as a sector separate from business. The business operation did not, or could not, understand what the IT operation was doing. The CIO was left to get on with it.
If a company is to effectively align its business and IT departments it needs to engage directly the business decision-makers in the implementation and development of company technology – “bridge the business-IT divide”.
Complex systems built from the business user’s desktop
From a traditional perspective, developing and maintaining business IT systems is a complicated task requiring specialist knowledge and a large multi-disciplinary team. The business executive is naturally separated from this process because his knowledge does not extend into the technological domain but he holds information about business operations that is essential for an IT system to be effective.Erudine’s technology directly engages the business user in the development and future modification of company IT systems. Without a need for traditional coding, systems built using the Behaviour Engine can have their functionality (behaviour) defined by the business expert, who possesses vital knowledge of company operations. This information includes revenue sources, competition, and compliance issues.
With the business expert directly engaged in creating system behaviour, the disconnection between business and IT is significantly shortened.
Application agility
The lack of alignment between companies' IT and business goals has been a hindrance to another essential attribute – swift and effective reaction to market changes.The greater the separation between the CEO and the CIO, the greater the lag between noticing the need for a change in company direction and actually implementing that change.
Systems constructed or replaced with Erudine’s technology are inherently agile and open to modification. Changing company IT systems to prepare for new opportunities, legislation, or shifting markets is a quick and simple task. And because the business expert can be directly engaged in making system changes, the CEO-CIO disconnection is reduced even further.