The application of Lean techniques within the IT enterprise can help reduce variability, improve efficiency and throughput, align business and IT objectives, and improve quality. Wipro Consulting's Lean IT services constitute a performance improvement strategy rather than merely a cost-cutting exercise.

For many businesses, changing the structure of the IT organization is a practical solution to reducing costs, increasing responsiveness, and deriving maximum value from IT investments. Restructuring an IT organization requires a strong interaction of processes, structures, people and technology, and a work culture that support the business directives.

Improving IT governance is on the agenda of many organizations to improve the return from their IT investments, increase operational efficiencies, and reduce risk. In our experience, organizations with robust IT governance mechanisms have a strong linkage between their business strategy and IT portfolio. Executive involvement, performance measurement and accountability are the fundamental building blocks of a good governance system which in turn improves the anticipated ROI.

Complexity in business and technology have reduced agility in IT and increased costs associated with Application Development and Maintenance (ADM). While IT infrastructure organizations have undergone consolidation and standardization, applications organizations are more fragmented and complex in nature. Our SMM (System Maturity Models) Consulting Practice focuses on increasing efficiency of ADM teams through Organizational Maturity Enhancement, Process Transformation, Cost Optimization, and Quality Management.

As Information Technology becomes increasingly important to maintain a competitive edge, businesses are seeking new ways to optimize their processes and IT infrastructure. This has increased the importance of the vital functions of Testing and Development. Organizations today are encountering an array of challenges including:

IT organizations are increasingly looking to Agile methods to improve their time to market, provide flexible management approaches, and increase application quality. As Agile adoption has moved into the mainstream, Agile processes have evolved, resulting in robust processes that accept and adapt to an organization's context and constraints

Businesses must consistently demonstrate significant value from their IT investments – a challenge that has led many to turn to program, project and portfolio management offices (PMOs) to boost IT efficiency, reduce costs, and improve project delivery timelines.

Improving services, reducing costs, outsourcing or restructuring in the IT organization has led to the redesign of infrastructure and operations organizations based on a services-oriented model. Designing a services-oriented organization requires interplay between people, processes and technology to overcome infrastructure complexity and provide services across multiple environments. In our experience, improvement in the operations environment is one of the critical enablers to demonstrate business value from IT.