Build Your Infrastructure Roadmap
Move beyond alignment: Put yourself in the driver’s seat for true business value.
- Individual business units have the ability to purchase and deploy technology with minimal oversight, resulting in duplication of efforts at best and extreme operational risk at worst.
- Priorities and goals change quickly compared to platform delivery times.
- Project portfolio management is focused exclusively on delivering new features and functions.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Draw the first picture. Demonstrate your understanding to the business and let them validate or correct.
- Infrastructure must position itself as the broker for new technologies. Who better to evaluate for fit, fitness, and risk? Lead rather than play cleanup.
- Focus on the framework not the output. Speak “business” so they understand the process rather than fight for each outcome.
- The roadmap is a process not a document. It is never final – merely a snapshot of many little steps throughout the period.
Impact and Result
- Increased communication. More information being shared to more people who need it.
- Better planning. More accurate information being shared.
- Reduced lead times. Less due diligence or discovery work required as part of project implementations.
- Faster delivery times. Less low-value work, freeing up more time for project work.
Build Your Infrastructure Roadmap Research & Tools
Start here – read the Executive Brief
Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should build an Infrastructure roadmap, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.
1. Conduct an organizational analysis
Evaluate intake channels for Infrastructure work and take stock of capacity for project work.
2. Analyze technology
Analyze your current technology and curate new technology at the same time.
3. Build the roadmap
Use the roadmap to communicate with the business.
4. Improve the process
Iterate for continual improvement.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
9.4/10
Overall Impact
$73,572
Average $ Saved
23
Average Days Saved
Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
State of Michigan
Workshop
8/10
N/A
N/A
Vista Outdoor Inc.
Workshop
10/10
N/A
N/A
Debswana
Guided Implementation
10/10
$123K
N/A
LPL Financial
Guided Implementation
10/10
$3,719
10
Turners and Growers
Guided Implementation
9/10
$92,999
35
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
2
Tokyo Electron US Holdings, Inc.
Guided Implementation
8/10
$30,999
20
MarketAxess Corp.
Guided Implementation
6/10
N/A
N/A
Wabtec Corp
Guided Implementation
9/10
$12,399
5
Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre
Guided Implementation
7/10
N/A
2
Clark Pacific
Guided Implementation
8/10
N/A
2
Donor Network West
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
10
Cross Country Mortgage, Inc.
Guided Implementation
10/10
$2,479
2
Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
5
Effort Trust
Guided Implementation
10/10
$10,000
10
East Carolina University
Guided Implementation
10/10
$33,175
10
GLY Construction, Inc.
Workshop
9/10
$14,259
9
Scottsdale Healthcare Hospitals d/b/a HonorHealth
Guided Implementation
7/10
N/A
N/A
Administrative Office Of The Courts
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
N/A
RPC Inc.
Workshop
10/10
$61,999
50
Montgomery County Board of County Commissioners
Guided Implementation
10/10
N/A
N/A
Pacific Blue Cross
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
5
RD Offutt Company
Guided Implementation
4/10
N/A
N/A
CPS Energy
Guided Implementation
9/10
$2,546
2
HONDA NORTH AMERICA INC.
Guided Implementation
9/10
$2,546
5
Bush Brothers & Company
Guided Implementation
9/10
N/A
N/A
IT Effectivity-CIO Solutions
Guided Implementation
10/10
$1.15M
115
Clark Builders
Workshop
9/10
N/A
20
Onsite Workshop: Build Your Infrastructure Roadmap
Onsite workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Conduct an Organizational Analysis
The Purpose
- Assess staffing resources and align Infrastructure work with business goals.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Improved alignment with stakeholders.
- More accurate understanding of staffing resources.
Activities
Outputs
Evaluate the organizational design.
Do a time study.
- Domain time study
Analyze Infrastructure's intake process.
- Intake analysis
Identify roadblocks.
- Prioritized list of roadblocks
Review business outcome responses.
Postulate goals.
- List of goals
Perform an initiative-to-goal mapping and analysis.
Module 2: Analyze Technology
The Purpose
- Balance care and feeding of current technology with assessment for new technology initiatives.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Clearer picture of existing care and feeding commitments
- Structured evaluation of potential new technologies that may add business value
Activities
Outputs
Develop a risk framework.
- IT and business risk frameworks
Evaluate existing inventory.
- Infrastructure inventory assessment
Develop a new technology identification process.
Develop a technology evaluation framework.
Conduct SWOT analyses.
- New technology analyses
Module 3: Build the Roadmap
The Purpose
- Visualize a snapshot of your portfolio of work and communicate it to key stakeholders.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Improved grasp of work in progress
- Closer partnership with the business
- Improved focus on business value
Activities
Outputs
Build effective initiative templates.
- Initiative templates
Generate new initiatives.
- Initiative candidates
Repatriate shadow IT initiatives.
Finalize initiative candidates.
- Roadmap visualization
Module 4: Improve the Process
The Purpose
- Iterate the roadmap process for continual improvement.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A more efficient roadmap process that achieves better results with less effort
Activities
Outputs
Build the report.
- Infrastructure Roadmap Report
Build a schedule of conversations.
- Process schedule
Strategize on how to win support.
- Communications strategy
Optimize the process.
- Process map
About Info-Tech
Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.
We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.
What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Speak With An Analyst
Get the help you need in this 4-phase advisory process. You'll receive 17 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
Guided Implementation #1 - Conduct an organizational analysis
- Call #1 - Discuss the process and scope of the project.
- Call #2 - Conduct an organizational evaluation and time study.
- Call #3 - Identify roadblocks.
- Call #4 - Map business goals and initiatives.
Guided Implementation #2 - Analyze technology
- Call #1 - Create an IT risk framework.
- Call #2 - Create a business risk framework.
- Call #3 - Perform a technology discovery and evaluation.
- Call #4 - Do a SWOT analysis.
Guided Implementation #3 - Build the roadmap
- Call #1 - Review the templates.
- Call #2 - Review and visualize in-flight initiatives.
- Call #3 - Create new initiatives.
- Call #4 - Harness shadow IT.
- Call #5 - Estimate resources for initiative candidates.
Guided Implementation #4 - Improve the process
- Call #1 - Review the report section.
- Call #2 - Schedule your process.
- Call #3 - Discuss support strategies.
- Call #4 - Explore ways to optimize your process.
Contributors
- Olivier Tsai, Director, IT, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center
- 14 anonymous company contributors
