10. Helpful Frameworks
• ITIL (formerly the IT Infrastructure Library)
• Gartner Infrastructure & Operations
Maturity Model
11. ITIL - Services Oriented Approach
definition
An IT service is one or more IT systems that
enable a business process or function.
12. ITIL - Services Oriented Approach
purpose
The role of the IT department is to create value for
the rest of the organization through the
implementation and maintenance of IT services.
17. Infrastructure & Operations MM
• Level 0 – Survival
Little to no focus on IT infrastructure and operations.
• Level 1 – Awareness
Realization. Begin to take action.
18. Infrastructure & Operations MM
• Level 2 – Committed
Move to a managed environment. Basic, day to day process.
Basic customer service.
• Level 3 – Proactive
Gain efficiency through standardization, governance, and policy.
Refine process.
19. Infrastructure & Operations MM
• Level 4 – Service Aligned
Aligned with overall business objectives.
Deliver consistent and competitive services.
• Level 5 – Business Partnership
Focused on innovation. Increasing value of entire organization (not just IT
services).
31. • Understands business needs
• Understands value of IT and investments
• Can communicate/advocate value and ROI
• Basic management skills…not necessarily
technical skills
Good Management
35. 4 Roles of IT Department
Resolve Incidents
Fulfill Service Requests
Provide Access
Network Health
Automation
Engineering
Project Mgmt
Change Mgmt
User Adoption
Planning
Business Alignment
Information Systems
IT
Department
36. 4 Roles of IT Department
Help DeskEngineering
PMOCIO
IT
Department
41. Planning Framework
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total
Run
- Operations
Grow
- Projects
Transform
- New Initiatives
42. Planning Framework
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5
Run
- Operations
Grow
- Projects
Transform
- New Initiatives
43. Planning
Successful
• Matching IT spend with Org
initiatives
• Budgeting for replacements
• Including IT as part of strategic
planning
Sacrificial
• Program centric budgeting
• Deferring investment in the
name of cost savings
• IT making due
44. Components of a successful plan
• Rolling IT initiatives that are aligned with the
organization’s goals
• Budget to support those goals
• Method to incorporate feedback and course
correct
There’s the changing nature of IT.
IT is no longer the guy with the office next to the server room that builds the organization’s computers.
Technology has evolved and the NP community has a tremendous opportunity to take advantage of really powerful tools.
Technology is still complex and in some cases manaing the complexities of the cloud and related integrations requires a much more sophisticated skill set than updating the server.
We’re moving or perhaps have moved from IT as top down tightly controlled to -----