Active Directory/ Digital Nervous System Concepts & Conceptual Design

1. CIO Workbench™CIO Workbench™
A Survival Kit for the ChiefA Survival Kit for the Chief
Information OfficerInformation Officer
Brian Keith Seitz
IT Effectiveness
Intellectual Arbitrage

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Hard Facts on I.T.
X projects fail
Projects X% over budget
Projects X% over schedule
Projects X% under deliver benefits
1985 Standish Report
The larger the organization, the worst the statistics are

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Definition of CIO
Career
Is
Over

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If you build IT the benefits will come!
Field of Dreams Projects

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The level of thinking that you need to get you
out of a problem is different than what got you
into it. --Albert Einstein

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The changing role of CIO over time
• Super-Project Manager
• Small Business Manager
• Senior Architect of Enterprise’s Information Infrastructure
• Corporate Information Technology Investment Manager

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Expanded View
“Art to Part”
to
“Concept to Cash”

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Enterprise instrumentation and control system
CIO Workbench™ is part of a
comprehensive instrumentation and control
system for businesses seeking to maximize
the benefits of information technology.
Admin
Daybook
Dashboard ProductManager
CIO
Work Bench™
ITManager™

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Decision Support for the CIO
The CIO Workbench™ -- is a set of tools and
techniques to evaluate and prioritize the use of I.T.
Assets.
Portfolio Management
Admin
Daybook
Dashboard ProductManager
CIO
Work Bench™
ITManager™

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Portfolio Management
Seeks to maximize benefits from the use of assets

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Inventory Management for I.T.
Admin
Daybook
Dashboard
CIO
Work Bench™
ITManager™ProductManager
To manage these assets you need to now what they are...
• Software
• Hardware
• Fiscal
• Human Resource
• Intellectual Capital
• Time
ITManager™ gives you a predefine set of asset classes
catalog your inventory

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ITManager™
Provides a means of classifying and cataloging these
assets so you can manage them.
•How long will these assets be in service -Lifecycle
Management
•How cost effective is your inventory -Redundancy and Gap
Analysis
•What is the potential effects of to the Enterprise if there is
a change to an asset -Organizational Impact analysis
Admin
Daybook
Dashboard
CIO
Work Bench™
ITManager™ProductManager

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ProductManager
Admin
Daybook
Dashboard ProductManager
CIO
Work Bench™
ITManager™
• Determine value case
• Determine product diffusion
• Determine project risk
• Determine and address technology risk at design
-Failure Mode and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)

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Admin
Daybook
Dashboard ProductManager
CIO
Work Bench™
ITManager™
A graphical representation of system status.

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It supports the various Investment Value
Management methodologies which are the
key to gaining benefits from projects and
programs

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IT Instrumentation and Control System
Admin
Daybook
Dashboard
On-line Transaction Systems for I.T. mgt.
Data Access layer to OLTP systems
I.T. Information Warehouse
Object layer to OLAP DBMS
ProductManager
CIO
Work Bench™
ITManager™

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CIO Workbench™ is a trademark of Intellectual
Arbitrage Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of BKSeitz &
Associates