Managing IT resources for Optimal Results

1. MANAGING IT
RESOURCES FOR
OPTIMALS RESULTS
Anshul Prasad (2013IPG-023)
Ashish Kr Verma (2013IPG-030)

2. WHY INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY?

3. EVOLUTION OF IT
1990’s 1995 2000’s 2010 PRESENT
Tim Berners-Lee,
a researcher at
CERN, the high-
energy physics
laboratory in
Geneva, develops
Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML),
giving rise to the
World Wide Web
The birth of
Enterprise
Resource Planning
software (ERP)
from the existent
Material
Requirements
Planning covering
business
processes and
growth.
The 2000s saw
the birth of smart
devices that
allowed everyone
to have access to
information from
their fingertips.
This, changed the
trajectory of
information
technology and
computer
development.
A creation of
knowledge
driven, customer
supplier
ecosystem due to
Internet
“ubiquitous
intelligence”
adding value to
the organization
IT Resources
allows
organizations to
analyze, monitor
and anticipate the
utilization and
performance of
the IT
infrastructure by
providing an
enterprise wide
view of services
and resources

4. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN AN ORGANIZATION
Decision Making
Business Growth
CustomerSupport
andSatisfaction
Automationand
Resource
Management
Globalization

5. SOME MORE IT SOLUTIONS
• Instant form routing and paperless processes.
• Goal tracking and cascading functionality for complete visibility and alignment.
• Automated goal management and performance review reminders.
• Support tools providing coaching support to managers when they need it most.
• Legal scan wizards to ensure appropriate/legal use of language.
• Dashboards to deliver company-wide, aggregated or individual reporting.

6. MANAGING IT RESOURCES
• How can we move beyond leveraging IT for redesigning
current business processes to create new business capabilities?
• How can we continually achieve and sustain the required
strategic alignment between business and IT operations?

7. CASE STUDY
McLarenGroup
• McLaren’s approach for IT resource allocation helps with driving improved efficiency across all
their lines of business. They planned their own innovative vision that promises to amplify the
value of enterprise business applications via the cloud, in-memory technology, and mobile
devices.
• This technology team will allow McLaren to increase efficiency with standardized business
processes while unifying their IT infrastructure to reduce total cost of ownership. McLaren
can also achieve rapid time to value through fast deployment cycles that can start small and
be scaled out as required.
Just as important, the group can avoid any investment in hardware or additional IT resources.
• McLaren Group has streamlined their financial operations to better manage spending,
optimize resources, and facilitate compliance with financial reporting requirements. With
centralized HR information, they can more effectively monitor growth both of the group as a
whole and also of the individual businesses.
Further, using a cloud-based deployment model has simplified the IT landscape and reduced
total cost of ownership

8. CASE STUDY
DELL
• From unconventional PC startup to global technology leader, the common thread in
Dell’s heritage is an unwavering commitment to the customer.
• In 1994 Dell finally stopped selling PCs through retail stores. It moved completely to
using an integrated IT platform that allow the order of customized systems. Strategic
use of IT produced Cost savings from reduced inventories passed on to customers.
• This innovation created a competitive advantage for Dell, which used its information
resources to achieve high volumes without the high costs of the industry’s traditional
distribution channels

9. Allocating Resources: One Rigid Yardstick or
Many Distinct Criteria?
• Wal-Mart did not decide its level of IT investment on the basis of the IT
spending levels of Sears or Kmart. If it had, Sears and Kmart would
probably still be leaders.
• Wal-Mart’s retailing strategy was to leverage IT functionality not only for
increasing the efficiency in its supply chain but also for effectively
replicating successful experiments across its network of stores on a
continuous basis. Store managers are connected through a sophisticated,
multimedia knowledge network so they can exploit their collective
expertise and continually fine-tune marketing strategies.
• Wal-Mart’s particular choice of how IT could contribute to its business
strategy influenced its funding strategy.

10. IT RESOURCES TO MANAGE
TECHNOLOGY
ENTERPRISE
ARCHITECTURE
TECHNICAL TALENT
MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION
SYSTEMS
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11. RESOURCE ALLOCATION STRATEGY
1 2 3 4 5
Get a
bird’s-eye
view of all
the
resources
Manage
the roles
and skill
set of your
resources
Multiple
currencies
for effective
resource cost
management
Control over
the
equipment
usage and
availability
Resource
management
reports for the
optimal
resource
utilization

12. BENEFITS OF OPTIMAL USE OF IT RESOURCES
• Aligned business by
making better IT
related decisions.
• Forecasting
performance and
capacity of IT
resources –
demonstrating how
IT is aligned with
each business unit.
• A plan for IT
infrastructure demand
and reduce risks.
• It helps to identify
underutilized IT
resources – and brings
insights to
infrastructure
consolidation or
virtualization.
• Reduced IT costs
through better use of
resources
• It allows you to
identify bottlenecks
and address poor
delivery service,
helping reduce
personnel, facilities,
hardware and general
IT operating costs..
• Gathers and
consolidates all IT
resource data available
throughout the IT
infrastructure
• The technology stages,
standardizes,
transforms and
aggregates
organization growth
and performance.

13. • Effective management of resources is an essential task for companies that
are managing different projects.
• It is important for them to efficiently organize and allocate personal as well
as equipment for different projects, same time avoiding idle
resources. Having the information about the availability of the resource
and have them available at the right time for the activities plays a vital role
in managing the costs and smoothly executing the project activities.
CONCLUSION

14. THANK YOU !