Companies are faced with the need to enhance their IT lifecycles, against a backdrop of rapidly advancing AI technology and new changes to the business environment. In order to achieve high levels of quality and productivity, IT departments need to apply frameworks, architectures and approaches that can flexibly address the entire IT lifecycle, from planning through to design, implementation, introduction and maintenance.
Through structuring that facilitates the identification of the impacts of business and IT changes, flexible IT environments that can promptly adapt to change, the utilization of technologies beginning with AI, and the fostering of personnel and organizations that can adapt to change, ABeam Consulting offers comprehensive support that improves the competitiveness of companies and helps maximize their business value.
Digital Transformation Approach Enhancement Support Service
Improving business competitiveness by enhancing the IT lifecycle to accelerate digital technology-driven business transformation
Background
Why companies need to enhance their IT lifecycles now more than ever, amidst a changing business environment
The need to address digitalization is accelerating with the advance of technology. To keep up with the speed of those changes, corporate IT departments need to enhance and continuously level up their entire IT lifecycles, from picking the right approaches for their businesses and adopting new tools and technologies, to transforming their cultures.
With that said, it is challenging for companies to keep pace with both changes at a high level in their core business environments and the latest trends in IT both at the same time. As the use of AI in IT departments has made recent strides, leaders have found that they struggle to get adequate impacts from merely introducing processes and tools such as AI. For example, we have seen cases where IT departments have expended great deals of time introducing new systems, only for these to fail to meet user needs and see little use. Despite improving productivity in the development process itself, frequent requests for re-working of the systems drive up the costs and time needed before services can be launched. In order to avoid facing these challenges, it is important for companies to properly embed better frameworks and approaches in their people and organizations, so that they can see continuous impact.
Challenges
Companies are requested to seek enhancements through the use of cutting-edge technology at each stage of the IT lifecycle from a perspective that takes in the whole business
Pitfalls
- Companies often find themselves doing no more than applying surface-level solutions to individual challenges, because they fail to identify where the fundamental issues lie in their IT lifecycles.
- They are in a position where management in IT projects depends on the experience and specific know-how of individual managers, preventing them from being able to immediately grasp their situations in terms of quality, costs and schedules, and thus unable to make objective decisions based on data.
- With tools that make use of new technologies, beginning with generative AI, making constant strides forward, companies require more time and resources to keep up with technological trends, and to determine which tools are best suited to their needs.
Approach
The services offered by ABeam Consulting are built around the three pillars of “problem solving using methodology,” “developing frameworks for problem solving” and “consolidation and continuous improvement.” Through an extensive track record across the entire IT lifecycle and use of unique methodologies, ABeam accurately analyzes challenges and develops actionable improvement measures. Additionally, to maximize the efficiency and productivity of projects, ABeam organizes automation and process management tools to realize efficiency gains and ensure quality. ABeam further improves the adaptability of organizations by designing and continuously providing training programs, and performing regular reviews and feedback cycles, in order to consolidate new technologies and processes across entire organizations, and to foster cultures that drive sustainable improvement.
Key features
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Processes for analyzing the real causes of issues and achieving sustainable improvement
ABeam Consulting seeks to go beyond merely streamlining tasks, taking a broad view of the IT lifecycle to address the root causes of bottlenecks and improve quality and productivity. ABeam also supports the consolidation of new technologies and processes in companies, helping achieve sustainable improvement and long-term business growth.
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Enhancing data-driven decision making
ABeam Consulting drives the creation of frameworks for realizing data-driven approaches that enable companies to accurately ascertain where they are and make prompt decisions. Through process automation and AI-enhanced analysis, ABeam supports strategic decision making.
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Providing comprehensive support and the latest insights
ABeam Consulting provides comprehensive expert support and optimal solutions taking advantage of a strong track record and cutting-edge insights across all phases of the IT lifecycle. This facilitates improvements to quality and productivity in the IT lifecycle as a whole.
Sustainable improvement processes that identify the root causes of challenges and execute on the optimal solutions
ABeam Consulting identifies the root cause challenges in client IT lifecycles through as-is analyses. Rather than simply streamlining individual tasks, ABeam drives measures that take the broad view to improve efficiency and quality. For example, in projects characterized by uncertainty and high degrees of risk, it is highly important to take measures that prevent schedule and cost overruns due to requests to rework tasks in the middle and latter stages. By leveraging case studies from projects ABeam has worked on in the past, combined with ABeam’s unique methodologies, ABeam is able to identify and execute on optimal solutions, including the use of various tools as an option. This prevents schedule and cost overruns due to requests to rework tasks throughout the project by identifying the essential challenges.
ABeam also drives sustainable improvement by providing training programs and carrying out continuous feedback in order to consolidate new technologies and processes in organizations. This supports cost reductions and prompt decision making for clients, helping realize continuous business growth.
Creating frameworks for using data to more accurately determine the state of play and to achieve faster decision making
ABeam Consulting drives the creation of frameworks for realizing data-driven approaches that enable companies to accurately ascertain where they are and make prompt decisions using quantitative data. By standardizing and creating templates across the entire IT lifecycle, these frameworks bring organizations to a point where they can minimize elements where they are dependent on individual projects and managers, and enable better use of data. Through such frameworks, organizations become capable of leveraging the information gained when executing projects as their own know-how and knowledge. Building frameworks to enable the use of data helps organizations visualize the status of their projects, quickly and accurately ascertain where they are at as an organization, and make prompt decisions. This further enables enhanced analysis leveraging leading technologies such as process automation and AI, facilitating more strategic decision making.
Sharing the latest research in a timely manner combined with case studies from expert organizations with track records in improving quality and productivity
ABeam Consulting experts, with deep knowledge of all phases of the IT lifecycle, provide comprehensive support across all phases using ABeam’s unique methodologies, including planning, development, implementation and operations, helping realize solutions to fundamental challenges. Using our high-level analytical skills, ABeam identifies the root causes of client challenges and derive optimal solutions to address them.
By providing clients with real-time information about the latest market and technology trends based on broad-ranging industry insights, ABeam works side by side with clients on initiatives to improve quality and productivity throughout the IT lifecycle. ABeam delivers sustainable results, enhances the IT lifecycle and maximizes business value through comprehensive support from specialist teams with extensive experience across service design, architecture, implementation and operations.
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