IT Strategy
Why IT Roadmap?
To define the mid-term (3–5 years) IT Roadmap for a retailer encompassing:
- Defining strategic needs
- Prioritizing initiatives
- Creating a business case for all investments
- Assessing related needs like: vendor availability, people resources, required infrastructure
- Assimilating best practices and instances of application solution implementation from retailers
For Whom?
The IT Roadmap Definition Service caters to the needs of strategic decision makers such as:
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
How?
The IT roadmap definition is an outcome of a two-day workshop, in association with the relevant stakeholders.
Integrated Retail conducts a comprehensive pre-analysis, which forms the basis of discussions during the workshop. The analysis will encapsulate:
- Existing systems and subsequent investments
- Business needs and imperatives
- User need assessment
- Competitive analysis
- Trend analysis
- Vendor assessment for existing suppliers
- New investments needed and related ROI
Why Integrated Retail?
Integrated Retail is one of the largest retail IT implementation and management service providers in the region. We have:
- Retail IT solutions for chain retailers across verticals such as: specialty, hypermarkets, department store, supermarkets, food-service and kiosk retailing
- A client base of over 100 retail companies across Asia, in retail automation solutions
- Dedicated multi-lingual 24 X 7 help desk for supporting clients of specialty retail solution companies in the US
- Consultants engaged by leading IT systems integration companies to assess the business needs of multi-billion US$, multi-country and multi-format retail companies
- Advisors who are the thought leaders in cutting edge retail applications such as RFID, Biometrics, VICS CPFR, GDSN etc.
