Without the right strategy, organizations have driven huge complexity into their IT infrastructures and created much confusion within their businesses. It should come as no surprise that executives remain unsure what exactly they are getting from the IT function and why their IT costs keep rising.

To approach these issues objectively, Booz Allen Hamilton takes a revolutionary view of IT as a business operating within a business, and addresses a focused agenda:

• Structuring IT to support and enable business growth in line with the overall organization's business strategy through initiatives that drive improved efficiency and effectiveness. This approach requires IT executives to engage their firms in a dialogue about how and where IT drives the business.
• Reducing IT cost and complexity, thereby minimizing risk and challenging IT to "flex" better with the organization rather than act as a fixed and increasing cost base.
• Increasing the transparency into IT costs and performance. This allows the business to understand the value of what it is buying and to facilitate proper economic trade-offs between IT and non-IT spending.
• Building IT into a business within a business. This means instituting world-class practices focused on pragmatic outcomes.

At Booz Allen, we have the skills and experience to help businesses and organizations maximize their IT return. Our capabilities to support this agenda span four areas.

• IT Strategy
• Business Value Capture
• IT Operations and Delivery
• Technology Architecture

To learn more, read the related story on Booz Allen's IT transformation and strategy experience.