IT became the business enabler

Client challenge:

To enable the growth targets of one of the “major players” in Biotech, “handbrakes and roadblocks” had to be removed in IT transformation. Inadequate standardization and scattered landscape in architectures and systems, as well as inconsistent IT process design, made the use of technology and synergies across labs and the Nordic region difficult or perhaps even impossible.

The task:

• Development of an IT set of tools that is coordinated with the affected IT areas (production sites and sales regions), which ensure agile execution of the IT strategy. IT management followed the rules: standardize, reduce complexity and manage unnecessary waste.
• Implementation of the appropriate management method and support for coordination of strategy development and the implementation framework.
• Management of the jointly developed roadmap and innovations as well as evaluation of the strategic portfolio.
• Support for the IT management to the IT strategy coordinated with the business areas and in its implementation of strategic initiatives as part of an appropriately anchored “strategy roll-out”.
• Consolidation of management issues through the establishment of carefully staffed governance committees that accelerate and regulate strategy development.

Results:

Consistent IT transformation execution and identical processes for flexible management of the desired volume growth characterize the IT management, which enabled growth, reduced complexity and achieved significant synergy effects within last 3 years period.