Event sponsor, Kovarus presentation by CIO Andy Lewis discussing new strategies around moving from ITaaS to ITaaB (Business).

1. Business Vitality Through IT
“Be Prepared”
The Scout Motto
Andy Lewis
June 25, 2015
“The whole is greater than the sum of the parts”
~Aristotle

2. Agenda – “Be Prepared”
• Introduction – Myself and Kovarus
• Our Approach – The Capability Scale
• Weakest links, greatest opportunity?
• Preparing to Execute: Back to Basics
• In Summary: Closing thoughts

3. Our Services & Solutions: Delivering ITaaS
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Simplify, standardize,
consolidate and virtualize.
Deploy private, public
and hybrid cloud options
with success.
Connect the dots between
people, processes and
technologies.
Deliver competitive IT in
alignment with business
goals.
Infrastructure
Optimization
& Assurance
Cloud
Enablement
Operational
Readiness
IT as a
Service
• IT Strategy
• IT Service Management
• Business Assurance
• Hybrid Cloud
• Hyper Convergence
• End-User Computing
• Compute
• Network
• Storage
• Security
• Strategic Alignment
• On-Demand
• Business Agility

4. Our Approach
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Traditional IT IT-as-a-Service IT-as-a-Business
(Reactive) (Proactive) (Predictive)
• What have you got?
• How are you using it?
• Standardize
• Simplify
• Create the IT STRATEGY
ITCapability
• What does the business need?
• How can you deliver it?
• Start accountable partnerships
• Execute the IT STRATEGY
• Make IT the “go-to” partner for delivering
reliable services
• Broker what the business needs
• Be competitive with other service providers
• Integrate the IT STRATEGY with the
BUSINESS STRATEGY
“Back to Basics”
“Mind the Gap”
“Make the Connection”

5. The Weakest Link
PROCESS TECHNOLOGY PEOPLE
OPTIMIZED RANGE1
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3
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Capability
BUSINESS
IT
BUSINESS
Business and IT Integration
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“He who rejects change is the architect for decay.”
~Harold Wilson

6. Preparing to Execute: Back to Basics
1) Measurements and Metrics
2) Converge and Simplify
3) Align and Partner
4) PPT and BPM
5) Communication, Marketing and Sales
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and
learning from failure.” ~Colin Powell

7. Enablers for Execution – 1 (Back to Basics)
• Measurements and Metrics
– How many do you have?
– Do you use them?
– What do you use them for?
– Are you using them for the correct purpose?
– Can you use them for anything else?
– Is the creation of the measurement repeatable?
– How can you derive greater value from the measurements?
– Who should see the metrics?
“The power to question is the basis of all human progress”
~Indira Ghandi

8. It only gets more complex…
• Add in virtualization technologies
• Add in logical architectures
• Add in Cloud(s)
COMPLEXITY = RISK + COST
The Cloud Stratosphere
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
~Albert Einstein

9. The complexity of the cloud…
1. Gartner: http://gtnr.it/1yaafzU 2. Forrester: http://bit.ly/1tbVIRv 3. Computer World: http://bit.ly/ZkYbSv 4. CloudPro: http://bit.ly/1tbTQZ3
“Creating even more complexity is the
fact that no two cloud providers are
created equal.”1
“Get out ahead of the complexity that cloud
introduces.”2
“Price War! Amazon cuts cloud costs to counter
Google.”3
“Rate of innovation at AWS, which saw the firm
push out 159 new product and services last year.”4

10. In Summary: closing thoughts
• Take care of the basics….
• Complexity is your enemy….
• Information is your friend….
• Let your expert partners help drive your
success
“If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.”
~Winston Churchill