Delivering More for the Business with IT

Your company's objectives for 2004 most likely include getting more for your IT budget, increasing the quality of new and existing system, enhancing vendor management, and better demonstrating the value of IT to the business. Finding practical ways to meet these challenges can be tough. Our Smart IT practices help senior IT managers find areas of the organization to improve and implement practical improvements. We use three proven models to assess and enhance an IT organization's cabilities: We use the COBIT (Control Objectives for Information Technology) to assess the organizational, operational and governance capabilities of an organization. We use CMM models from the Software Engineering Institute to measure an organization's ability to build and procure systems. We then use practices from the Whitewater Process, our own library of software development best practices, to add new and effective processes and capabilities to your organization.

We have helped dozens of companies drive bottom-line business benefits in IT including:
- Process improvements and training for one of the nation's largest issuers of credit cards that resulted in a 50% decrease in time to market and yield a multi-million dollar yearly benefit.
- Development of a software development process for a 1000 employee system integration firm that resulted in more flexible staffing and higher developer utilization.
- Enhancement of an existing development process with RAD practices for a major US military development organization that yeilded faster projects with higher quality.
- Development of an office of a CIO for a major pharmaceutical company.
- Development of an eBusiness Portfolio Management Office for a major technology company that drove efficiencies between projects, reducing costs and time to market.

Contact your Freshwater Partner representative to learn how Smart IT can help you meet your 2004 IT and business goals. We are always happy to chat on the phone and give you some examples of improvements that are working for today's IT professionals.