- 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.
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