This Slideshare presentation is a partial preview of the full business document. To view and download the full document, please go here:
http://flevy.com/browse/business-document/it-strategy-209
This is a comprehensive document on Information Technology (IT) / Management Information Systems (MIS) Strategy.
This document includes IT strategy frameworks, critical success factors, detailed project approach and organizational structure, sample deliverables, and more.
This document outlines the key steps for developing an effective IT strategy, including understanding the enterprise's direction, assessing the current IT environment and capabilities, defining target IT capabilities, conducting a gap analysis, developing a strategic plan and roadmap, and communicating the strategy. Some of the important activities described are analyzing the current and desired future states of business and IT, identifying goals and capabilities, and developing initiatives to address gaps and migrate systems from current to target environments over time. The overall purpose is to align IT with business objectives and priorities through a collaborative process of information gathering, planning, and consensus building.
Align IT Strategy with Business StrategyMauly Chandra
Business Strategy & IT must go hand in hand. Aligning IT strategy with Business strategy enables leveraging IT for achieving strategic objectives like increase productivity, improve profitability, more"
https://www.forceintellect.com/2020/09/08/importance-aligning-it-strategy-business-strategy/
This document discusses various viewpoints from different IT managers on their IT strategy and priorities. It focuses on using data to drive decisions and improve business operations. Specifically:
1. The CTO wants to focus on building a data team, collecting more data from sources, analyzing more data, and using data to help establish competitive differentiation and improve quality.
2. Data can help organizations improve operations through better metrics, solidify relationships with stakeholders, and make better decisions to reduce risks.
3. A company needs to consider how to leverage its variety of products/services, high transaction velocity, and large data volumes as competitive advantages.
This document discusses the IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) which provides a standard framework for linking corporate strategy to IT strategy. The IT-CMF examines the full spectrum of IT management dimensions across four macro processes - managing IT like a business, managing the IT capability, managing IT for business value, and managing the IT budget. It assesses maturity across five levels and provides guidance on best practices to increase maturity levels and maximize business value delivered by IT.
According to Gartner, "The stongest performing IT organizations are distinguished by strong strategy practices. The weak performing IT organizations are distinguished by weak delivery practices."
Having an IT strategy and executing it are important.
This brief presentation covers:
1. Why IT Strategy?
2. What does a great IT Strategy look like?
3. How to create a great IT Strategy
4. How to make the IT Strategy real
This document outlines an IT strategy and architecture plan presented by an IT manager. It includes an agenda covering an overview, IT strategy approach and methodology, framework, implementation strategy, portfolio management, governance, and maintenance. Key sections define an IT strategy as supporting business goals and assessing current IT effectiveness, and define architecture as providing a conceptual blueprint. The approach involves reviewing business strategy, assessing current IT, developing strategies and architecture, and maintaining the plan.
This document provides an overview of implementing an effective enterprise architecture program. It begins with some disclaimers about competing perspectives on EA. It then discusses the architecture continuum from enterprise to system level. Key aspects of a successful EA program covered include gaining executive sponsorship, starting small and showing quick wins, formalizing governance processes, and planning for both centralization initially and eventual federation. The presentation emphasizes communicating value and celebrating successes.
This Slideshare presentation is a partial preview of the full business document. To view and download the full document, please go here:
http://flevy.com/browse/business-document/it-strategy-209
This is a comprehensive document on Information Technology (IT) / Management Information Systems (MIS) Strategy.
This document includes IT strategy frameworks, critical success factors, detailed project approach and organizational structure, sample deliverables, and more.
This document outlines the key steps for developing an effective IT strategy, including understanding the enterprise's direction, assessing the current IT environment and capabilities, defining target IT capabilities, conducting a gap analysis, developing a strategic plan and roadmap, and communicating the strategy. Some of the important activities described are analyzing the current and desired future states of business and IT, identifying goals and capabilities, and developing initiatives to address gaps and migrate systems from current to target environments over time. The overall purpose is to align IT with business objectives and priorities through a collaborative process of information gathering, planning, and consensus building.
Align IT Strategy with Business StrategyMauly Chandra
Business Strategy & IT must go hand in hand. Aligning IT strategy with Business strategy enables leveraging IT for achieving strategic objectives like increase productivity, improve profitability, more"
https://www.forceintellect.com/2020/09/08/importance-aligning-it-strategy-business-strategy/
This document discusses various viewpoints from different IT managers on their IT strategy and priorities. It focuses on using data to drive decisions and improve business operations. Specifically:
1. The CTO wants to focus on building a data team, collecting more data from sources, analyzing more data, and using data to help establish competitive differentiation and improve quality.
2. Data can help organizations improve operations through better metrics, solidify relationships with stakeholders, and make better decisions to reduce risks.
3. A company needs to consider how to leverage its variety of products/services, high transaction velocity, and large data volumes as competitive advantages.
This document discusses the IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) which provides a standard framework for linking corporate strategy to IT strategy. The IT-CMF examines the full spectrum of IT management dimensions across four macro processes - managing IT like a business, managing the IT capability, managing IT for business value, and managing the IT budget. It assesses maturity across five levels and provides guidance on best practices to increase maturity levels and maximize business value delivered by IT.
According to Gartner, "The stongest performing IT organizations are distinguished by strong strategy practices. The weak performing IT organizations are distinguished by weak delivery practices."
Having an IT strategy and executing it are important.
This brief presentation covers:
1. Why IT Strategy?
2. What does a great IT Strategy look like?
3. How to create a great IT Strategy
4. How to make the IT Strategy real
This document outlines an IT strategy and architecture plan presented by an IT manager. It includes an agenda covering an overview, IT strategy approach and methodology, framework, implementation strategy, portfolio management, governance, and maintenance. Key sections define an IT strategy as supporting business goals and assessing current IT effectiveness, and define architecture as providing a conceptual blueprint. The approach involves reviewing business strategy, assessing current IT, developing strategies and architecture, and maintaining the plan.
This document provides an overview of implementing an effective enterprise architecture program. It begins with some disclaimers about competing perspectives on EA. It then discusses the architecture continuum from enterprise to system level. Key aspects of a successful EA program covered include gaining executive sponsorship, starting small and showing quick wins, formalizing governance processes, and planning for both centralization initially and eventual federation. The presentation emphasizes communicating value and celebrating successes.
IT Strategy Assessment & Optimization - Catallysts ApproachRajanish Dass
The document discusses optimizing an organization's IT strategy through a 3-step approach:
1) Assess the business and IT context to identify opportunities for improvement.
2) Attain optimal alignment between business and IT to move towards business growth and higher IT effectiveness.
3) Evolve the IT strategy to deliver long-term growth by addressing key areas like the operating model and performance measures.
Your Challenge
Organizations have to adapt to a growing number of trends, putting increased pressure on IT to move at the same speed as the business.
The business, seeing that IT is slower to react, looks to external solutions to address its challenges and capitalize on opportunities.
IT and business leaders don’t have a clear and unified understanding or definition of an operating model.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
The IT operating model is not a static entity and should evolve according to changing business needs.
However, business needs are diverse, and the IT organization must recognize that the business includes groups that consume technology in different patterns. The IT operating model needs to support and enable multiple groups, while continuously adapting to changing business conditions.
Impact and Result
Determine how each technology consumer group interacts with IT. Use consumer experience maps to determine what kind of services consumer groups use and if there are opportunities to improve the delivery of those services.
Identify how changing business conditions will affect the consumption of technology services. Classify your consumers based on business uncertainty and reliance on IT to plan for the future delivery of services.
Optimize the IT operating model. Create a target IT operating model based on the gathered information about technology service consumers. Select different implementations of common operating model elements: governance, sourcing, process, and structure.
How to develop and govern a Technology Strategy in 10 weeksLeo Barella
This presentation covers the organizational layout, EA Services and EA Governance processes necessary to develop and govern a technology strategy effectively.
The document discusses various strategies and best practices for IT management. It covers topics such as balanced scorecards, ITIL frameworks, mission and vision statements, SWOT analysis, strategic planning, and employee motivation. Some key guidelines for developing an effective IT strategy include aligning IT with business goals, meeting business needs, managing infrastructure and services, coping with market changes, and managing costs and resources. The top priorities for CIOs are to align IT strategy with business strategy, meet business needs effectively, and ensure infrastructure and service management.
Info-Tech Research Group provides research and advice on IT issues. They have a methodology for developing an IT strategy in 8 steps that involves determining the scope, assessing the current state of IT and business drivers, developing a target vision, defining initiatives, building a roadmap, executing the plan, and reviewing progress. Their process is grounded in established frameworks and is designed to ensure business needs are understood and the strategy delivers value. Info-Tech can help organizations develop an effective strategy by gathering diagnostic data, overcoming common barriers, and tailoring the approach based on an organization's size and needs.
IT Strategy I Best Practices I NuggetHubRichardNowack
IT strategy is a plan of action to create an information technology capability for maximum, and sustainable value for an organization. In this business best practice slide deck you learn how to assess and setup an IT strategy and a transformation plan.
We provide you with the following best practices:
- IT Strategy Definition and Introduction
- IT Strategy Frameworks
- IT Strategy Approaches and Transformation
Creating A Business Focussed Information Technology StrategyAlan McSweeney
This presentation describes a structured approach to creating a business-focussed information technology strategy.
An effective business-oriented IT strategy is an opportunity to resolve the disconnection and to ensure the IT function is able to and does respond to business needs and is trusted by the business to provide IT solutions.
The IT strategy will consist of static structural elements relating to the organisation of the IT function:
• Capabilities – skills and abilities the IT function should possess and be able to use effectively and efficiently
• IT Function Structure – the organisation and arrangement of the sub-functions and their responsibilities and relationships
• Operating Model – how the IT function work and delivers value and the processes it implements and operates
• Staffing And Roles – the numbers of people, their roles, responsibilities, expected skills, experience and abilities, workload, reporting structures and expected ways of operating
It will also include dynamic elements relating to initiatives, both enabling initiatives within the IT function and specific business initiatives required to achieve the business strategy.
The document discusses an approach to IT strategy and architecture that aligns business and IT to enable organizations to adapt to constant change. It presents a framework with four views: business, functional, technical, and implementation. The business view defines goals and drivers. The functional view describes how the solution will be used. The technical view specifies how the system will be built. The implementation view details how the solution will be delivered. It advocates for stakeholder participation and using principles, models, and standards across the views.
How to Articulate the Value of Enterprise Architecturecccamericas
Ever struggled with the question, What is the Value of Enterprise Architecture? In this facilitated conversation, Michael Fulton will share his perspective on Enterprise Architecture and the value it provides to the CIO, to IT, and to the business.
Come ready to engage, because in the conversation we will discuss:
•The EA 7-year itch
•Several External Perspectives on EA Value
•The CC&C perspective on a simplified approach to EA Value
•Ensuring your perspective on EA Value is relevant for your stakeholders
At the end of this conversation, you should walk away with:
•A new perspective on the value of EA
•Tips and tricks on how to articulate and quantify EA Value for your key stakeholders.
The document discusses several frameworks for IT governance - COBIT, ITIL, and Val IT. It describes the key components and benefits of each framework. COBIT focuses on controls and metrics for IT processes, while ITIL provides guidance on service delivery and support. Using the frameworks together can provide a comprehensive approach to IT governance that establishes what should be done as well as how.
Introduction to Enterprise architecture and the steps to perform an Enterpris...Prashanth Panduranga
The document provides an overview of enterprise architecture presented by Prashanth B P Panduranga, Director of Technology. Some key points include:
- Line of business workers and IT staff increasingly use unauthorized SaaS apps
- IT suppliers are targeting business users directly and line of business heads demand higher project velocity
- An enterprise architecture framework provides structures for developing architectures using common standards and building blocks
- Enterprise architecture applies principles and practices to guide business, information, process, and technology changes to execute organizational strategy
Review of Information Technology Function Critical Capability ModelsAlan McSweeney
IT Function critical capabilities are key areas where the IT function needs to maintain significant levels of competence, skill and experience and practise in order to operate and deliver a service. There are several different IT capability frameworks. The objective of these notes is to assess the suitability and applicability of these frameworks. These models can be used to identify what is important for your IT function based on your current and desired/necessary activity profile.
Capabilities vary across organisation – not all capabilities have the same importance for all organisations. These frameworks do not readily accommodate variability in the relative importance of capabilities.
The assessment approach taken is to identify a generalised set of capabilities needed across the span of IT function operations, from strategy to operations and delivery. This generic model is then be used to assess individual frameworks to determine their scope and coverage and to identify gaps.
The generic IT function capability model proposed here consists of five groups or domains of major capabilities that can be organised across the span of the IT function:
1. Information Technology Strategy, Management and Governance
2. Technology and Platforms Standards Development and Management
3. Technology and Solution Consulting and Delivery
4. Operational Run The Business/Business as Usual/Service Provision
5. Change The Business/Development and Introduction of New Services
In the context of trends and initiatives such as outsourcing, transition to cloud services and greater platform-based offerings, should the IT function develop and enhance its meta-capabilities – the management of the delivery of capabilities? Is capability identification and delivery management the most important capability? Outsourced service delivery in all its forms is not a fire-and-forget activity. You can outsource the provision of any service except the management of the supply of that service.
The following IT capability models have been evaluated:
• IT4IT Reference Architecture https://www.opengroup.org/it4it contains 32 functional components
• European e-Competence Framework (ECF) http://www.ecompetences.eu/ contains 40 competencies
• ITIL V4 https://www.axelos.com/best-practice-solutions/itil has 34 management practices
• COBIT 2019 https://www.isaca.org/resources/cobit has 40 management and control processes
• APQC Process Classification Framework - https://www.apqc.org/process-performance-management/process-frameworks version 7.2.1 has 44 major IT management processes
• IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) https://ivi.ie/critical-capabilities/ contains 37 critical capabilities
The following model has not been evaluated
• Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) - http://www.sfia-online.org/ lists over 100 skills
Strategic IT Governance defines the formal process of aligning an organization's IT strategy with its overall business goals and overseeing execution. IT governance is important for regulatory compliance, competitive advantage, supporting enterprise goals, innovation, increasing intangible assets, and reducing risk. Effective IT governance involves strategic alignment, value delivery, risk management, resource management, and performance measurement. It requires involvement from leaders, managers, executives, boards, and stakeholders. Challenges include lack of business strategy alignment, ineffective project management, and lack of transparency and controls. Frameworks like COBIT and ITIL can help with governance, and balanced scorecards are effective for performance measurement.
The document provides an overview of an IT operating model case study. It discusses building blocks for developing an IT operating model, including business context, business architecture, application architecture, technology architecture, IT organization structure, IT governance, IT valuation, IT budget plan, IT portfolio management, and IT roadmap. It also describes potential deliverables from an IT operating model project such as an enterprise architecture document, IT organization structure, IT governance framework, and IT investment analysis. The case study methodology involves assessing current IT effectiveness, developing an optimal IT organization structure, and aligning IT investment with business planning.
A tailored enterprise architecture maturity modelPaul Sullivan
The document describes a tailored maturity model for enterprise architecture (EA). It reviews several existing EA maturity models and proposes a 5-level model based on the TOGAF and Gartner ITScore models. The levels are: Initial, Developing, Defined, Managed, and Optimized. At each level, the model specifies how EA should interact with and provide value to the business, IT leadership, and other organizational functions.
A view on the components of an operating model.
An Operating Model describes how an organisation (usually a business) works. This is made up of business processes, organisation structures, data and technology.
The processes represent HOW the business works. Capabilities represent WHAT the business does. Governance ensures regulatory compliance and business efficiency.
Governance and Management of Enterprise IT with COBIT 5 FrameworkGoutama Bachtiar
This courseware was designed for the training entitled 'Governance and Management of Enterprise IT with COBIT 5 Framework' with the objective of understanding COBIT 5 Framework as well as achieving IT Governance effectiveness using the respective framework.
The document discusses new patterns of innovation in business using data and analytics. It identifies five key patterns: 1) augmenting products to generate data, 2) digitizing assets, 3) combining data within and across industries, 4) trading data, and 5) codifying distinctive service capabilities. For companies to successfully innovate, managers must involve experts in transformation efforts, challenge time and budget management skills, and involve customers in changes.
Data Strategy - Executive MBA Class, IE Business SchoolGam Dias
For today's enterprise Data is now very much a corporate asset, vital to delivering products and services efficiently and cost effectively. There are few organizations that can survive without harnessing data in some way.
Viewed as a strategic asset, data can be a source of new internal efficiencies, improved competitive advantage or a source of entirely new products that can be targeted at your existing or new customers.
This slide deck contains the highlights of a one day course on Data Strategy taught as part of the Executive MBA Program at IE Business School in Madrid.
IT Strategy Assessment & Optimization - Catallysts ApproachRajanish Dass
The document discusses optimizing an organization's IT strategy through a 3-step approach:
1) Assess the business and IT context to identify opportunities for improvement.
2) Attain optimal alignment between business and IT to move towards business growth and higher IT effectiveness.
3) Evolve the IT strategy to deliver long-term growth by addressing key areas like the operating model and performance measures.
Your Challenge
Organizations have to adapt to a growing number of trends, putting increased pressure on IT to move at the same speed as the business.
The business, seeing that IT is slower to react, looks to external solutions to address its challenges and capitalize on opportunities.
IT and business leaders don’t have a clear and unified understanding or definition of an operating model.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
The IT operating model is not a static entity and should evolve according to changing business needs.
However, business needs are diverse, and the IT organization must recognize that the business includes groups that consume technology in different patterns. The IT operating model needs to support and enable multiple groups, while continuously adapting to changing business conditions.
Impact and Result
Determine how each technology consumer group interacts with IT. Use consumer experience maps to determine what kind of services consumer groups use and if there are opportunities to improve the delivery of those services.
Identify how changing business conditions will affect the consumption of technology services. Classify your consumers based on business uncertainty and reliance on IT to plan for the future delivery of services.
Optimize the IT operating model. Create a target IT operating model based on the gathered information about technology service consumers. Select different implementations of common operating model elements: governance, sourcing, process, and structure.
How to develop and govern a Technology Strategy in 10 weeksLeo Barella
This presentation covers the organizational layout, EA Services and EA Governance processes necessary to develop and govern a technology strategy effectively.
The document discusses various strategies and best practices for IT management. It covers topics such as balanced scorecards, ITIL frameworks, mission and vision statements, SWOT analysis, strategic planning, and employee motivation. Some key guidelines for developing an effective IT strategy include aligning IT with business goals, meeting business needs, managing infrastructure and services, coping with market changes, and managing costs and resources. The top priorities for CIOs are to align IT strategy with business strategy, meet business needs effectively, and ensure infrastructure and service management.
Info-Tech Research Group provides research and advice on IT issues. They have a methodology for developing an IT strategy in 8 steps that involves determining the scope, assessing the current state of IT and business drivers, developing a target vision, defining initiatives, building a roadmap, executing the plan, and reviewing progress. Their process is grounded in established frameworks and is designed to ensure business needs are understood and the strategy delivers value. Info-Tech can help organizations develop an effective strategy by gathering diagnostic data, overcoming common barriers, and tailoring the approach based on an organization's size and needs.
IT Strategy I Best Practices I NuggetHubRichardNowack
IT strategy is a plan of action to create an information technology capability for maximum, and sustainable value for an organization. In this business best practice slide deck you learn how to assess and setup an IT strategy and a transformation plan.
We provide you with the following best practices:
- IT Strategy Definition and Introduction
- IT Strategy Frameworks
- IT Strategy Approaches and Transformation
Creating A Business Focussed Information Technology StrategyAlan McSweeney
This presentation describes a structured approach to creating a business-focussed information technology strategy.
An effective business-oriented IT strategy is an opportunity to resolve the disconnection and to ensure the IT function is able to and does respond to business needs and is trusted by the business to provide IT solutions.
The IT strategy will consist of static structural elements relating to the organisation of the IT function:
• Capabilities – skills and abilities the IT function should possess and be able to use effectively and efficiently
• IT Function Structure – the organisation and arrangement of the sub-functions and their responsibilities and relationships
• Operating Model – how the IT function work and delivers value and the processes it implements and operates
• Staffing And Roles – the numbers of people, their roles, responsibilities, expected skills, experience and abilities, workload, reporting structures and expected ways of operating
It will also include dynamic elements relating to initiatives, both enabling initiatives within the IT function and specific business initiatives required to achieve the business strategy.
The document discusses an approach to IT strategy and architecture that aligns business and IT to enable organizations to adapt to constant change. It presents a framework with four views: business, functional, technical, and implementation. The business view defines goals and drivers. The functional view describes how the solution will be used. The technical view specifies how the system will be built. The implementation view details how the solution will be delivered. It advocates for stakeholder participation and using principles, models, and standards across the views.
How to Articulate the Value of Enterprise Architecturecccamericas
Ever struggled with the question, What is the Value of Enterprise Architecture? In this facilitated conversation, Michael Fulton will share his perspective on Enterprise Architecture and the value it provides to the CIO, to IT, and to the business.
Come ready to engage, because in the conversation we will discuss:
•The EA 7-year itch
•Several External Perspectives on EA Value
•The CC&C perspective on a simplified approach to EA Value
•Ensuring your perspective on EA Value is relevant for your stakeholders
At the end of this conversation, you should walk away with:
•A new perspective on the value of EA
•Tips and tricks on how to articulate and quantify EA Value for your key stakeholders.
The document discusses several frameworks for IT governance - COBIT, ITIL, and Val IT. It describes the key components and benefits of each framework. COBIT focuses on controls and metrics for IT processes, while ITIL provides guidance on service delivery and support. Using the frameworks together can provide a comprehensive approach to IT governance that establishes what should be done as well as how.
Introduction to Enterprise architecture and the steps to perform an Enterpris...Prashanth Panduranga
The document provides an overview of enterprise architecture presented by Prashanth B P Panduranga, Director of Technology. Some key points include:
- Line of business workers and IT staff increasingly use unauthorized SaaS apps
- IT suppliers are targeting business users directly and line of business heads demand higher project velocity
- An enterprise architecture framework provides structures for developing architectures using common standards and building blocks
- Enterprise architecture applies principles and practices to guide business, information, process, and technology changes to execute organizational strategy
Review of Information Technology Function Critical Capability ModelsAlan McSweeney
IT Function critical capabilities are key areas where the IT function needs to maintain significant levels of competence, skill and experience and practise in order to operate and deliver a service. There are several different IT capability frameworks. The objective of these notes is to assess the suitability and applicability of these frameworks. These models can be used to identify what is important for your IT function based on your current and desired/necessary activity profile.
Capabilities vary across organisation – not all capabilities have the same importance for all organisations. These frameworks do not readily accommodate variability in the relative importance of capabilities.
The assessment approach taken is to identify a generalised set of capabilities needed across the span of IT function operations, from strategy to operations and delivery. This generic model is then be used to assess individual frameworks to determine their scope and coverage and to identify gaps.
The generic IT function capability model proposed here consists of five groups or domains of major capabilities that can be organised across the span of the IT function:
1. Information Technology Strategy, Management and Governance
2. Technology and Platforms Standards Development and Management
3. Technology and Solution Consulting and Delivery
4. Operational Run The Business/Business as Usual/Service Provision
5. Change The Business/Development and Introduction of New Services
In the context of trends and initiatives such as outsourcing, transition to cloud services and greater platform-based offerings, should the IT function develop and enhance its meta-capabilities – the management of the delivery of capabilities? Is capability identification and delivery management the most important capability? Outsourced service delivery in all its forms is not a fire-and-forget activity. You can outsource the provision of any service except the management of the supply of that service.
The following IT capability models have been evaluated:
• IT4IT Reference Architecture https://www.opengroup.org/it4it contains 32 functional components
• European e-Competence Framework (ECF) http://www.ecompetences.eu/ contains 40 competencies
• ITIL V4 https://www.axelos.com/best-practice-solutions/itil has 34 management practices
• COBIT 2019 https://www.isaca.org/resources/cobit has 40 management and control processes
• APQC Process Classification Framework - https://www.apqc.org/process-performance-management/process-frameworks version 7.2.1 has 44 major IT management processes
• IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) https://ivi.ie/critical-capabilities/ contains 37 critical capabilities
The following model has not been evaluated
• Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) - http://www.sfia-online.org/ lists over 100 skills
Strategic IT Governance defines the formal process of aligning an organization's IT strategy with its overall business goals and overseeing execution. IT governance is important for regulatory compliance, competitive advantage, supporting enterprise goals, innovation, increasing intangible assets, and reducing risk. Effective IT governance involves strategic alignment, value delivery, risk management, resource management, and performance measurement. It requires involvement from leaders, managers, executives, boards, and stakeholders. Challenges include lack of business strategy alignment, ineffective project management, and lack of transparency and controls. Frameworks like COBIT and ITIL can help with governance, and balanced scorecards are effective for performance measurement.
The document provides an overview of an IT operating model case study. It discusses building blocks for developing an IT operating model, including business context, business architecture, application architecture, technology architecture, IT organization structure, IT governance, IT valuation, IT budget plan, IT portfolio management, and IT roadmap. It also describes potential deliverables from an IT operating model project such as an enterprise architecture document, IT organization structure, IT governance framework, and IT investment analysis. The case study methodology involves assessing current IT effectiveness, developing an optimal IT organization structure, and aligning IT investment with business planning.
A tailored enterprise architecture maturity modelPaul Sullivan
The document describes a tailored maturity model for enterprise architecture (EA). It reviews several existing EA maturity models and proposes a 5-level model based on the TOGAF and Gartner ITScore models. The levels are: Initial, Developing, Defined, Managed, and Optimized. At each level, the model specifies how EA should interact with and provide value to the business, IT leadership, and other organizational functions.
A view on the components of an operating model.
An Operating Model describes how an organisation (usually a business) works. This is made up of business processes, organisation structures, data and technology.
The processes represent HOW the business works. Capabilities represent WHAT the business does. Governance ensures regulatory compliance and business efficiency.
Governance and Management of Enterprise IT with COBIT 5 FrameworkGoutama Bachtiar
This courseware was designed for the training entitled 'Governance and Management of Enterprise IT with COBIT 5 Framework' with the objective of understanding COBIT 5 Framework as well as achieving IT Governance effectiveness using the respective framework.
The document discusses new patterns of innovation in business using data and analytics. It identifies five key patterns: 1) augmenting products to generate data, 2) digitizing assets, 3) combining data within and across industries, 4) trading data, and 5) codifying distinctive service capabilities. For companies to successfully innovate, managers must involve experts in transformation efforts, challenge time and budget management skills, and involve customers in changes.
Data Strategy - Executive MBA Class, IE Business SchoolGam Dias
For today's enterprise Data is now very much a corporate asset, vital to delivering products and services efficiently and cost effectively. There are few organizations that can survive without harnessing data in some way.
Viewed as a strategic asset, data can be a source of new internal efficiencies, improved competitive advantage or a source of entirely new products that can be targeted at your existing or new customers.
This slide deck contains the highlights of a one day course on Data Strategy taught as part of the Executive MBA Program at IE Business School in Madrid.
Introducing Acquia’s DXP Vision, Strategy, Renaming, and RepackagingAcquia
Please join Acquia’s executive team as they share with partners how Acquia’s new product strategy will help the partner community build more sales opportunities and revenue growth. You will come away from this webinar knowing:
Acquia’s vision, strategy, and opportunity in the DXP market
How our products and roadmap will achieve this vision
What our new product branding and packages are, and how these map to the old branding and packages
New services opportunities available to partners
New partner selling tools now available
*Register and receive a $15 Voucher. Available to Acquia’s Partner employees only. Must attend to use the voucher.
Company culture is more important than technology for successful digital transformation. While technology can provide 30% of the change needed, culture accounts for the remaining 70%. An organization's culture determines its willingness and ability to transform. To drive transformation, companies must focus on collaborating across business and IT, changing their investment framework to prioritize value over costs, and embracing constant change, diversity of perspectives, and new processes to manage risks from new technologies.
5 keys to digital transformation for small businessesSameerShaik43
Digital transformation is crucial for small businesses to overcome competition and derive benefits like reduced costs, improved efficiency and profits. There are five keys to effective digital transformation for small businesses: (1) Provide data to empower employees to make better decisions, (2) Break down silos and boost collaboration across departments, (3) Involve all levels of employees to develop the right business culture and vision, (4) Integrate business systems seamlessly for improved workflows and collaboration, (5) Partner with technology experts to optimize resources and implement the right strategies.
The Future of Business: Trends in Digital TransformationQurinom Solutions
Digital transformation is the process of integrating digital technology into all aspects of a business, fundamentally changing how it operates and delivers value to customers. This transformation involves utilizing digital tools and technologies to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and enhance the overall customer experience. By embracing digital transformation, businesses can stay competitive in today's fast-paced, technology-driven world.
This document discusses the importance of digital business and defines key terms. It explains that a digital business incorporates digital technology to create revenue and results through innovative strategies, products, processes and experiences. It also discusses how technology and business have evolved, with technology now creating new opportunities that change businesses. It outlines several key technology trends and how they present opportunities for new players but also threats. The document discusses the changing roles of various corporate leaders in a digital business environment and some of the challenges they face. It provides a value tree for a digital business that shows how investments in new digital capabilities can drive growth and efficiency through various value levers.
ISACA IT GRC Conference 2008 Creating Business Value by means of Stakeholder ...Arno Kapteyn
In marketing a saying goes: “The Customer does not exist” this recognizes that each customer is unique in its desires and requirements and there is no such thing as a one size fits all. In analogy this session sets out with the statement that “The business does not exist”. An enterprise is a unique combination of central or de-central, task, geography, goal and/ or skills oriented divisions and departments. All these stakeholders have individual needs and requirements that might be met or supported by the services offered by the Enterprise IT Domain. To offer a one size fits all solution (per service) in response to this multitude of desires is to reuse the line of though from Henry Ford: “They can have any color they like as long as it is black”. This approach was very useful to help build the company into the global enterprise it is today. Yet at some point in the growth of the organization it was abandoned in favor of more variation of choice as a trip to the ford dealer will tell you. Even a standard product like a McDonalds hamburger varies to suite the (taste) requirements in different parts of the world.
How can the IT Domain of an enterprise growing in complexity, size, geographical presence etc. strategically prepare to deal with this complexity and ensure it will (keep) deliver(ing) maximum value in the eyes of the individual stakeholder (groups)?
The document discusses how CMOs and CIOs can better collaborate to improve company growth. It outlines the top priorities of each, such as network technology and customer growth. Both seek reduced costs through data analytics and mobile/cloud computing. By aligning goals, jointly planning initiatives, and collaborating in areas like product development and customer insights, the CMO and CIO can ensure IT supports business objectives. As technology becomes central to business, their understanding of customer needs is crucial for relevance.
This presentation is about the innovative ideas that should be encouraged in various organizations for their positive progress. Also, it deals with the 5 most important patterns for Innovation.
The document outlines the top 10 IT trends and priorities for 2014 that CIOs should focus on to maximize their impact, including: choosing the right technology partners, attracting and retaining skills, cybersecurity and governance, enabling BYOD and mobile apps, leveraging big data analytics, improving collaboration and interoperability, preparing for cloud adoption, rethinking IT spending to focus on growth, ensuring business relevance, and reducing time to service delivery. Focusing on these key areas will allow CIOs to position IT as a strategic business enabler rather than just a cost center.
This whitepaper discusses how organizations can leverage IT sourcing to support business objectives like cost reduction and innovation. It argues that IT sourcing strategies need to be aligned with and enable the overall corporate strategy, not focus solely on isolated IT metrics. To truly realize value, IT must become an agile service integrator that can manage a flexible portfolio of internal and external capabilities to support changing business needs. Maintaining multiple sourcing partnerships rather than relying on a single vendor allows organizations to more easily acquire new capabilities and support innovation.
The document discusses 4 key reasons why enterprises need to adopt digital transformation: 1) The rise of technologies like big data, mobile, and social media have increased customer power and expectations. 2) Adopting digital enables business agility and adaptability. 3) Digital transformation allows for innovation, responsiveness to customer needs, and fast processes. 4) Digital can drive business value when properly implemented across the entire enterprise rather than in isolated departments. The document advocates for a holistic digital strategy that incorporates technology and culture change throughout the organization.
Are you a Digital Transformation leader? Can you create a high-performance strategy in the digital age? Have you got what it takes to avoid the tumbling barrels of distracting digital tactics, over hyped technology or the belief that your market is immune to disruption? Have you allocated the right resources to deliver a focused plan of transformation?
Managing Your Consulting Firm for Growth - An IDC InfoDoc, sponsored by Deltek Oomph! Recruitment
This document discusses the results of a survey of over 250 consulting firms regarding managing growth. Key findings include:
- Consulting firms are bullish on future growth, with 41% revenue growth. However, rapid growth brings challenges in project execution, talent retention, and financial management.
- Firms need better visibility into customer, project, and employee lifecycles in order to capitalize on opportunities. Customer lifetime value and retention are seen as most important metrics.
- Many firms still rely on in-house IT systems rather than industry-specific cloud solutions, despite evidence that purpose-built systems provide advantages in decision-making and operational efficiency. Most firms plan to transition more systems to the cloud.
The document discusses how companies can gain competitive advantages through strategic uses of information technology (IT). It provides examples of how companies like GE have used IT to build strategic customer relationships and increase profitability. The document also discusses how business process reengineering often involves using IT to integrate and streamline processes. Becoming an agile competitor through virtual collaboration is another strategic use of IT discussed.
Data is a key enabler of digital transformation and innovation. It fuels new digital processes and solutions. To benefit from data, organizations must first define and organize core master data and then acquire the right competencies to analyze and combine both structured and unstructured internal and external data. This will allow organizations to discover innovative solutions through a "data-lab" approach and trials. Ensuring high quality master and process data is also important to enable seamless experiences across systems.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/how-axelera-ai-uses-digital-compute-in-memory-to-deliver-fast-and-energy-efficient-computer-vision-a-presentation-from-axelera-ai/
Bram Verhoef, Head of Machine Learning at Axelera AI, presents the “How Axelera AI Uses Digital Compute-in-memory to Deliver Fast and Energy-efficient Computer Vision” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
As artificial intelligence inference transitions from cloud environments to edge locations, computer vision applications achieve heightened responsiveness, reliability and privacy. This migration, however, introduces the challenge of operating within the stringent confines of resource constraints typical at the edge, including small form factors, low energy budgets and diminished memory and computational capacities. Axelera AI addresses these challenges through an innovative approach of performing digital computations within memory itself. This technique facilitates the realization of high-performance, energy-efficient and cost-effective computer vision capabilities at the thin and thick edge, extending the frontier of what is achievable with current technologies.
In this presentation, Verhoef unveils his company’s pioneering chip technology and demonstrates its capacity to deliver exceptional frames-per-second performance across a range of standard computer vision networks typical of applications in security, surveillance and the industrial sector. This shows that advanced computer vision can be accessible and efficient, even at the very edge of our technological ecosystem.
Digital Marketing Trends in 2024 | Guide for Staying AheadWask
https://www.wask.co/ebooks/digital-marketing-trends-in-2024
Feeling lost in the digital marketing whirlwind of 2024? Technology is changing, consumer habits are evolving, and staying ahead of the curve feels like a never-ending pursuit. This e-book is your compass. Dive into actionable insights to handle the complexities of modern marketing. From hyper-personalization to the power of user-generated content, learn how to build long-term relationships with your audience and unlock the secrets to success in the ever-shifting digital landscape.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
FREE A4 Cyber Security Awareness Posters-Social Engineering part 3Data Hops
Free A4 downloadable and printable Cyber Security, Social Engineering Safety and security Training Posters . Promote security awareness in the home or workplace. Lock them Out From training providers datahops.com
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
3. How about….
Where and how should we prioritise the time,
money and resources we put into IT to make it a
driver of customer satisfaction, business growth,
and profit rather than just an operational cost?
5. How about….
OK, so most people working in IT nowadays weren’t even born in the 1990s,
but this model, by Vaughan Merlyn is one I really like. (NB Vaughan is still
forging ahead with great ideas – see here http://www.themerlyngroup.com/blog/
Just because a model is “old” doesn’t mean it isn’t good! It’s a common sense
approach to understanding IT strategy as a series of three “IT Maturity Levels”.
I’ve adapted it to a 2015 “Cloud World”
6. How about….
Key points inherent within the model include:
• What the business needs – in red vs what IT needs to deliver – in blue
• The levels are sequential and additive – i.e. each one builds on the one
before
• There is a discontinuity between each level – e.g. to enable innovation
requires flexibility and independence that is counter intuitive compared to
the focus on integrated systems at earlier levels
• Getting Level 1 right – stable infrastructure, doesn’t add as much value as
fast as Level 2 – the application layer. Which is why it often feels like you
can spend ages and £££s on this and not be any further ahead.
7. Three Levels of IT Maturity
What the Business needs What IT has to deliverValue
Time
• Enable business & partnerships
• Enable collaboration
• Consolidated management information
• Integrated processes orientation
across business units
Business
Effectiveness
• Foundation systems
• Cost savings
• Operational information
• Functional orientation
Business
Efficiency
• Robust, dependable services/solutions
• Core common infrastructure
• Stabilise operations and support
• Data used ad hoc
Infrastructure
Focus
• Enhanced applications improving
operations, business processes and
collaboration
• Data drives decisions
Application
Focus
• Customer led innovation
• Converge business & IT
strategy
• Flexibility and agility
• Data visible across the business
Innovation
Focus
Adapted from work by Vaughan Merlyn at Ernst & Young 1990s
• Growth through innovation and differentiation
• Flexible agile business capabilities
• Business intelligence shared with staff and
customers
• Customer responsive orientation
• Individual unit needs vs corporate whole
Business
Transformation
1
2
3
8. Three basic questions
1. What are the current key drivers of success in
my sector ?
2. What are the key drivers for my business?
3. How could we align IT with these?
9. How about….
And if you’re stuck with trying to figure out where you could be focusing to drive
IT value through your business, then try this model also from Ernst & Young.
Their research talks about how high performing businesses focus on pushing
ahead in four areas:
• Customer Reach
• Cost Competitiveness
• Stakeholder Confidence
• Operational Agility
Actually, IT can support all of these, but I have shaded some of the more
obvious ones in green
10. Source: Ernst & Young: Growing Beyond
How high performers are accelerating ahead
http://www.ey.com/GL/en/Issues/Driving-
growth/Growing-Beyond/Growing-Beyond---How-high-
performers-are-accelerating-ahead
11. And finally…
• Some opportunities to think differently about how you’re running IT
in your business
– Review IT governance?
1. Operational – keeping the lights on
2. Strategic – alignment with the business
– Most businesses spend far too much time on 1 and not
enough on 2
• Ask your stakeholders about Maturity Levels 2 and 3 – what do you
need to be doing to get up that value curve?
– Key fee earners
– Key customers
• Research and learn from competitors/industry best practice – rather
than too much “navel gazing” get your focus outwards.