CIO priorities for the next six months: the Gartner view

Insight and understanding are priceless

We agree with Dave Aaron 100% on how critical it is for firms today to have a clear and well mapped strategy - in both good and bad times. We have long evangelized to our customers the importance of being able to simulate organizational or strategic changes in order to be able to explore all the potential benefits (and downfalls!) of a decision. An effective business analysis tool can help you conduct timing, cost and state analysis on current processes and explore multiple "To-Be" scenarios. You can choose to run these tests in two ways: either by using hypothetical data related to the forecasted change to see what the impact would be on the business or based on actual data so as to generate a real scenario. Our Enterprise Modeling tool provides CIO and CEOs with all the functionality they need to establish a complete enterprise strategy and deliver on it. The power of enterprise modeling and analysis software is that it helps to define a strategy, it analyses the impact that decisions will have on the business and it shows how to leverage the systems, data, human, and technology assets that a business has to achieve this. This means that executives and managers can effectively analyze how corporate strategy, goals and direction influence and support processes (and not vice versa) which is key to a successful business in these difficult economic times. Not to mention enabling them to outperform the competition when the market rebounds.

Posted by: Laura Mooney, Metastorm  17 Jul 2009