The Digital Group’s Value Based Approach:

The Digital Group’s approach is to take a centralized model for some aspects of solutions delivery and to develop the common technology architecture for delivering an optimized technology platform delivery capabilities. In addition, our Center of Excellence Strategy would be able to drive changes across Information Management Processes, Organization and People skills.

In summary, we want to deliver a value-based optimized approach that brings together a set of essential functions, practices and capabilities to support the successful delivery of programs and projects. Our value based approach across the various technology platforms is focused on achieving:

• Better reuse capabilities across projects
• Improved software quality
• Reduced speed of delivery
• Cost takeout through shared infrastructure
• Cost takeout through shared skill sets
• It is a comprehensive approach that involves a well-defined:
  • Governance Model
  • Organizational Structures for Management, Architecture and Delivery
  • A Common Architecture
  • Maintenance and Support Approach

In summary, a Centre of Excellence brings together a number of best practices in systems development to achieve better speed to market, reuse and reduced complexity.