IT strategy serves as a guideline for the medium to long-term orientation of an organization’s IT. It reflects the corporate strategy from an IT perspective and takes technological limitations and opportunities into account.

An IT strategy aligned with the organization’s goals makes it possible to align IT in such a way that it supports the business model effectively and efficiently and can react flexibly to new developments and requirements. In this way, IT can actively improve the company as a consultant. IT evolves from a cost factor to an asset that enables the organization to differentiate itself from the competition in the long term.

asteria GmbH supports its clients in the development, improvement and implementation of IT strategy and the alignment of IT with the needs of the company.

We see IT strategy development and implementation as a holistic process comprising the following steps:

• Identification of IT stakeholders and compilation of IT requirements
• Recording the current status, determining the current situation and defining the need for action
• Strategic positioning and development of vision, goals, technological and organizational guidelines together with the business units
• Selection of suitable technologies
• Definition of the target state after evaluation of several alternatives and assessment based on costs/benefits, potential, flexibility
• Creating the roadmap for achieving the target state
• Definition of key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure success
• Definition of IT processes and organization
• Investment and action planning