Technology Strategy and Management

Trends/Challenges
Where ABeam Stands Out
Services Provided

Supporting transformation as a partner of CIO/IT departments that must use technology to drive business growth

Effective use of technology is essential to achieving today’s business strategies. CIO/IT departments must be at the core of these efforts to contribute to business growth. CIO/IT departments are in a harsh environment. They must manage ever-advancing technology alongside existing operations and outdated legacy systems. Developing the next generation of IT personnel is another pressing challenge. The role of the CIO/IT department is also constantly expanding. CIO/IT departments are expected to help achieve corporate strategies by promoting technology, and to pursue organizational transformation and personnel development to facilitate co-creation with business departments. They must also develop governance structures that fit with the times and the strategy adopted by the business, and make proposals from a tencological perspective to management and business departments.

ABeam Consulting is ready to support you in establishing a CIO/IT department that is equipped to contribute to sustained business growth.

Trends/Challenges

Creating CIO/IT departments that are ready to propose new ways of creating value through technology for management and business departments

CIO/IT departments must contribute to technology-enabled businesses and services, and must also streamline existing operations to achieve the company’s corporate strategy.

Modern CIO/IT departments must work with CEOs and business department leaders to provide technological insights into their own company, their competitors and the market, advising them on how to create new services, raise the value of existing services, and boost employee productivity.

To achieve this, CIO/IT departments must understand their own technology investments and cost structures and optimize the balance of technology usage across the company. They must also explore the technology available in the market, and understand the potential advantages of the data held by their company.

ABeam Consulting has contributed to technology-led growth at numerous companies. These experiences taught us that it is essential to have an optimal technology strategy based on an understanding of how a company’s investments, cost structures, and present patterns of usage fit into the wider corporate strategy.

Creating CIO/IT departments that build collaborative relationships with business departments and co-create value

Companies must implement more digital and IT projects in the future to maintain their competitive edge. It is also essential for CIO/IT departments to improve their relationships with business departments to build relationship structures that facilitate co-creation of value.

CIO/IT departments must revise older operational models by listening to the challenges and ambitions of business departments. They must build new IT governance models that focus on organizational structures for collaborative work, which includes planning, executing, and improving joint projects and finding benefits rather than on excessive risk-hedging.

CIO/IT departments and business departments must also educate their own staff. They must develop a corporate culture that raises the standards for digital utilization, transforming the company into one that can get the most out of digital technology.

To do so, companies must define organizational and HR visions as well as operational and governance structures that incorporate business departments, without being held captive by existing organizational frameworks.

Securing human resources to create high value CIO/IT departments

In the near future, CIO/IT departments will face important questions on how they provide value to companies, carrying out several operations in parallel that have their own characteristics. Can they drive digital technology and IT projects in line with corporate strategy? Can they modernize legacy environments? Can they stably operate multiple systems?

Facing a shortage of technology personnel, CIO/IT departments are nevertheless expected to develop and procure suitable resources and personnel both within the company and in business partners to lead difficult projects to success while managing existing operations.

CIO/IT departments must strengthen their core competencies and in-sourcing, and implement initiatives to assist their company in securing resources.

Where ABeam Stands Out

Providing comprehensive support for CIO/IT department operations

ABeam Consulting provides end-to-end support for CIO/IT department operations, from diagnostics and redesigning systems to operations and modernizing updates.
Improving core operations and in-sourcing through side-by-side support

ABeam Consulting works side-by-side with companies to support and enhance CIO/IT department core operations. Our support is based on an understanding of our clients’ culture, characteristics, and level, leading the clients to enhance their own in-sourcing initiatives.
An IT governance model optimized for Japanese companies on the global stage

ABeam Consulting is ready to support your CIO/IT department in achieving its full value with the knowledge gained from years of supporting global Japanese companies.

Services Provided

ABeam Consulting works with CIO/IT departments as their partner to provide support across IT department functions and to strengthen the overall organization.

Management/business department value proposals

Value co-creation enabler

Exhaustive streamlining and optimization

Trends/Challenges

Where ABeam Stands Out

Providing comprehensive support for CIO/IT department operations

Improving core operations and in-sourcing through side-by-side support

An IT governance model optimized for Japanese companies on the global stage

Services Provided