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Leading music major aligns IT strategy with business goals |
Patni's detailed assessment study of business processes and IT applications helped a
leading music major successfully streamline its diverse portfolio to align with business
needs.
The Client
The client is a worldwide leader in the manufacture of high-quality, high-fidelity audio and electronic products for automotive, consumer and professional use. It has an international presence in the US (Sales & Manufacturing), Europe (Sales), China and Mexico (Manufacturing facilities).
The Challenge
To enhance its competitiveness and accelerate decision making, the
client was constantly on the lookout for improving its operational
efficiencies with the help of technology.
To make sure that IT became the driver of its business rather than
providing mere support, the client wanted to:
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Align IT with business objectives |
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Assess the business needs that could be potentially fulfilled by
leveraging IT |
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Identify IT improvement areas and redundancies in the IT
application portfolio. |
This assessment exercise called for the expertise of a service provider
who had expertise in aligning the technology strategy with business
needs.
The Solution
Due to its extensive experience in this domain, Patni was selected as the strategic
partner of the client. As a part of the assessment study, Patni carried a series of
interviews with senior executives. This assessment exercise was mainly focused on:
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Understanding the key business drivers and business pressures |
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Classifying business drivers under four major categories namely Revenue Growth
Drivers, Operational Drivers, Legal Drivers and Management of regulatory
compliance, and Management Drivers |
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Capturing critical business requirements around key business functions |
Patni partnered with the client to understand the business requirements and mapped it
to the existing IT infrastructure and application portfolio. Using its IT portfolio
assessment & portfolio management framework, Patni:
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Provided recommendations on areas of improvement in business processes across
key business functions |
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Developed "To Be" process map |
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Defined Scope of automation in line with "To be" process |
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Developed "To be" application map |
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Developed 3 year IT roadmap to implement "To be" Application map |
The Benefits
By leveraging Patni's Portfolio Assessment and Portfolio management
framework, the client streamlined its diverse portfolio to align with
the business needs. Patni also provided a future roadmap for IT
implementation that would help the client methodically cut costs and
achieve higher operational efficiencies.
Other significant benefits included:
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Streamlined business processes aligned to long-term business
objective |
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Adaptive business and IT framework |
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Focused IT efforts leading to a lean Application Portfolio. |
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