DigiTech Magazine - US CIO2020 - Fall 2015 | Page 10

BUSINESS ....................................................................................................................................................................
TECHNOLOGY
Technology led organizational
transformation –
powerful agent for change
Writing a business case for an IT refresh project
is hard. Are you asking for a big pile of money
to replace some depreciated assets, or are you
enhancing the productivity of your organization?
Is “do nothing” really a viable option? Can you
still buy typewriters and message delivery by
pigeon? (Actually you can, but that’s another
story).
The temptation is to create a set of mathematically sound but
logically silly measures like this:
• We will make the organization more productive by making the
laptops faster to boot-up
• This will save on average 15 minutes per user per day
• We have 8,000 users who work 225 days per year
• 8,000 x 225 x 15 minutes = 450,000 hours or 56,250 working
days, or 250 working years
• At an average salary of £30k this saves the organization £7.5m
Technology-led organizational transformation can be a powerful
agent for change. Here are a few of the real-world benefits we’ve
seen when this is done well ...
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