Strategic Technology Audits enable organisations to optimise their technology investments and resources.
Strategic Technology Audits identifying elements that fail to support business objectives as well as the technology investments that can be leveraged for dynamic competitive advantage.
Strategic Techology Audits
A traditional compliance driven, inventory-based equipment audit provides little useful business information for managers. Such
an audit only provides a spot check of where equipment is within the business at a given time.
A strategic technology audit
approach is a management tool that engages equipment and technology issues within an integrated business approach. The strategic
technology audit goes well beyond an equipment spot check to address future business opportunities that technology can influence.
It
recognises that technology and technology planning, not equipment, are crucial inputs into defining strategic business directions.
Key management questions related to a strategic technology audit include:
• What is the technology ROI in relation to business
outcomes?
• What is the evidence that the business is really benefiting from technology acquisitions?
• What are the
key elements of technology needed to support future opportunities?
• Are technology purchase decisions informal and random
or part of a well developed plan?
• What metrics should be developed and used to measure the value of technology?
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