S&A
IT4B (from IT4Business-Anoverview_v1.pdf)
Strategy
- Understands and articulates the business strategy, objectives and priorities
- Alignment on cross-functional/regional/business topics
- Ensuring appropriate alignment/reuse of solutions for the business
Architecture & Design
- Aligns with other S&A Units within EBS IT on cross EBS topics and initiatives, e.g., form virtual S&A for specific business needs (e.g., retail, distribution)
- Creates and maintains the key architectures and frameworks for business processes, data, and IT landscape
Business Analysis
- Develops and maintains the capability maps and roadmaps for the business
- Impacts assesses changes against the above
- Has deep understanding of the key business processes and market environment in order to proactively advise and support business units with business and IT expertise
- Has a good understanding of the IT products and technologies relevant for business units and market
Planning
- Works with Solution unit to ensure requirements and objectives are fully understood and correctly converted to IT solutions
- Converts strategy inputs and targets into a 3 year IT lifecycle (incl. refresh, decommissioning) for the business units (products/services/applications)
Portfolio Managmenent
- Considers requirements for and impacts of: major deliverables, changes, impacts on operations, resourcing, skills, sourcing, etc.
- Includes planning for internal EBS initiatives, and 'technical' activities such as DR, application upgrades, refresh etc.
- Maintains a view of the change and impact of change of the overall business unit IT landscape In terms of e.g., legacy, innovation, legal/mandatory etc.
- Ensures balance between operations and change is appropriate and aligned to the business units overall needs and strategic objectives
- Ensures IT investment is strategically allocated