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Your Challenge Organizations are struggling to keep up with today’s evolving threat landscape. From technology sophistication and business adoption to the proliferation of hacking techniques and the expansion of hacking motivations, organizations are facing major security risks. Every organization needs some kind of information security program to protect their systems and assets. Organizations today face pressure from regulatory or legal obligations, customer requirement, and now, senior management expectations. Our Advice Critical Insight Performing an accurate assessment of your current security operations and maturity levels can be extremely hard when you don’t know what to assess or how to assess it. Alignment can be a difficult area for security to get right when it’s trying to balance both regular IT and the business. Communication is needed between the business leaders, IT leaders, and the security team for an effective security strategy to be in place. Impact and Result Info-Tech has analyzed and integrated regulatory and industry best practice frameworks, combining COBIT 5, PCI DSS, ISO 27000, NIST SP800-53, and SANS to ensure an exhaustive approach to security. Through this process, a comprehensive current state assessment, gap analysis, and initiative generation ensures that nothing is left off the table. This project will elevate the perception of the security team from being a hindrance to the organization to an enabler.
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Your Challenge Even though organizations are now planning for Application Integration (AI) in their projects, very few have developed a holistic approach to their integration problems resulting in each project deploying different tactical solutions. Point-to-point and ad hoc integration solutions won’t cut it anymore: the cloud, big data, mobile, social, and new regulations require more sophisticated integration tooling. Loosely defined AI strategies result in point solutions, overlaps in technology capabilities, and increased maintenance costs; the correlation between business drivers and technical solutions is lost. Our Advice Critical Insight Involving the business in strategy development will keep them engaged and align business drivers with technical initiatives. An architectural approach to AI strategy is critical to making appropriate technology decisions and promoting consistency across AI solutions through the use of common patterns. Get control of your AI environment with an appropriate architecture, including policies and procedures, before end users start adding bring-your-own-integration (BYOI) capabilities to the office.
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Your Challenge: As Portfolio Manager, you’re responsible for communicating portfolio results and future capacity to your steering committee. Business and IT leaders need more accurate information on project status and resource availability to decide when to start and stop projects. You need to better understand the needs of the PMO and assess the costs and benefits associated with different tools and approaches to PPM. Our Advice - Critical Insight: PPM is a practice, not a tool. Before succeeding with a commercial tool, you need to establish discipline and trust around reporting processes, which can be done using spreadsheets and other simple tools. Portfolio management is separate from project management. Think of it as the accounting department for time. Project managers report into the portfolio and are held accountable to it, but it isn’t simply an extension of project management. Our Advice - Impact and Result: Decrease the wasted portfolio budget by reducing the number of cancelled projects and other sources of efficiency. Establish the portfolio as the “one source of truth” for project reporting by increasing rigor around project status updating and reporting. Align project intake with resource capacity to improve throughput, quality of estimates, and stakeholder satisfaction.
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Your Challenge: Implementing a shared services model is a difficult process to undertake, and is comprised of many different components. Becoming a shared services provider is comparable to becoming a vendor and most IT groups don’t have the capabilities to easily make the transition. Most companies look to achieve cost reductions through offering a shared services model. Adopting a shared services model doesn’t always result in these intended cost reductions. Simply combining the operations of two IT organizations doesn’t necessarily result in economies of scale and cost efficiencies. Before leaping forward with your shared services implementation, determine if the project will deliver value to your organization. Our Advice - Critical Insight: Implementing a shared services model needs to be viewed as more than simply extending a current service to other sites. The organization providing services essentially turns into a vendor. As a vendor, think of the IT service you’re offering as the “product.” Remember that there are people, process, and technology capability pre-requisites to successfully becoming a shared services provider. These capabilities are not typical for the average IT shop, and need to be taken into consideration when you look to transition to a shared services model. Our Advice - Impact and Result: Before jumping into the implementation of your shared services project, assess your customer requirements and your current people, process, and technology capabilities to assess whether your organization is ready to implement a shared services model. Understand the financial implications of moving to a shared services model prior to implementing. Make sure there is a strong case for implementation.
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Your Challenge: Situation Enterprise Architecture increases the organization’s ability to provide consistent services, accessible information, scalable infrastructure, and flexible technology integration on demand. It helps bridge the gap between business and IT and creates a shared enterprise vision. Complication EA programs that are run without the required EA capability level are prone to failure. EA capability optimization and EA operating model design skills are not common, as they are not everyday tasks. Our Advice: Critical Insight Using this research while assessing and optimizing your EA capability will help you: Architect the EA capability by applying four architectural perspectives: Contextual, Conceptual, Logical, and Physical. Develop an EA Operating Model starting at the contextual level, and proceeding through to the physical. Develop a sponsored mandate for EA capability. Identify and engage EA capability stakeholders. Determine organizational scope, i.e. responsibility and authority of EA. Identify business drivers for optimizing an EA capability. Analyze organizational context. Secure executive support and authorization to execute. Establish EA capability purpose and strategic direction. Write EA capability vision statement. Craft EA capability mission statement. Define EA capability goals and measures. Create EA principles. Assess current and determine target EA capability level. Document EA management process. Define EA management practices. Define interactions between EA management and other processes. Define EA capability performance and value measurement approach. Design EA organization and roles. Design EA organization structure. Define EA roles. Define required skills and proficiency levels for EA roles. Determine required EA staff capacity. Standardize EA tools and work products. Establish an EA repository. Decide on EA tools to be used. Define EA artifacts and work products. Develop an EA capability improvement plan. Consolidate and refine steps required to roll out the target EA operating model and improve EA capability. Draw an EA capability improvement roadmap.
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Your Challenge: Impending audits intimidate CIOs and business executives – and for good reason. A failed audit can result in punitive fines and injunctions that disrupt continuing operations until violations are resolved. These highly visible failures are best prevented through auditor-enterprise collaboration and pragmatic audit management. Our Advice: Critical Insight Shift the audit paradigm: auditors need to be enabled, not resisted. Auditors provide a value-added service that you are paying for. Establishing an effective relationship and enabling the audit team can ensure you get value from the engagement. However, you must also be vigilant in mitigating the risk of damaging findings . Impact and Result Effective audit management means acting with kindness to establish an effective relationship and taking vigilant, calculated steps to reduce the risk of adverse findings. Clarify the audit scope and prepare documentation in advance. Start off on a positive note and enable the auditor. Manage audit logistics to minimize business disruption. Dispute unwarranted findings. Continuously improve your auditability.
Survive an Impending Audit
Survive an Impending Audit
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge: The days of offering baseline mobile capabilities such as email, enterprise storage, and collaboration are behind us. Today, businesses are looking at mobile as a means of offering improved and innovative business services and capabilities to remain competitive. The mobile landscape is continually evolving. It is hard to predict which trends will make a significant impact and difficult to prepare for them. Our Advice: Critical Insight Mobile innovation has its risks. Exposure to sensitive enterprise systems, the rise of new attack surfaces, and the relative nascence of some mobile development frameworks adds to the complexity. Tomorrow’s trends can be a complete shift from what they are today. Without a strong mobile dev foundation, apps are developed with broken functionality which results in low user satisfaction and adoption. Enable today’s mobile trends in your existing apps to remain competitive. Offer value to the business in the form of new or enhanced services. You run the risk of losing out on significant opportunities if not examined. Prepare for tomorrow’s trends with emphasis on security, performance, and API dev competencies. Misaligned dev may limit the scalability and availability of your platform for future dev. Impact and Result Learn about trending mobile technologies that will give you a competitive advantage: Select the trends that are aligned and support your overall business strategy and value creation objectives. Strengthen your mobile dev components and competencies to ease your trend enablement: Assess the integration, dependencies, and data of your mobile stack, and identify the necessary components and skills that will enable development of today’s trending mobile capabilities. Look beyond today’s trends and prepare: Stay informed with the evolution of mobile technologies and prepare your teams and stack for future mobile enhancements with tomorrow’s mobile trends.
Stay on Top of Today’s and Tomorrow’s Mobile App Trends
Stay on Top of Today’s and Tomorrow’s Mobile App Trends
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge: Leadership training can be unsuccessful and expensive. More than 14 billion dollars was spent on corporate leadership development in the US in 2013, yet less than 15% of these programs were effective. The longer you wait to improve leadership skills, the longer it will take to improve your managers' reputations with their teams – and improve performance, retention, and engagement. Our Advice: Critical Insight Get results from your leadership training by holding your teams accountable through team-based development and support. Focus on quick-wins or “low-hanging fruit” to see leadership skill improvements fast, and make teams more effective and engaged today. Apply training immediately and iterate as you go. By doing so, participants are significantly more likely to use techniques and get value from the training. Impact and Result Use Info-Tech’s collaborative team-based approach to leadership development. Our proven methodology and process focus on easy-to-implement tactics that will achieve results for your leaders within two months. This blueprint focuses on improving skills in six critical areas: Leadership brand Communication Inspiring staff Meeting effectiveness Conflict resolution Strategic time management
Fast track critical leadership skills
Fast track critical leadership skills
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge: - With the complexity of mobility increasing in most organizations, enterprise mobility management (EMM) is becoming necessary to manage devices, as well as all aspects of mobility. - While EMM might seem simple from the outside, it has many moving parts. It covers devices, applications, data, security, policies, financial management, and help desk management. - Without a detailed implementation plan to mitigate issues such as missing components, an unprepared IT department and help desk, and low end-user adoption, IT will find it difficult to ensure a successful launch. Our Advice: Critical Insight - Mobility within organizations continues to grow more complex, and requirements for managing mobility now extend far beyond the device itself. - As BYOD continues to grow and new products are released into the market, EMM will become a necessary tool for long-term sustainability and effective use of mobility. - Without a proper implementation plan in place, organizations will find it difficult to achieve a suitable, unified solution for short and long-term sustainability of mobile management. Impact and Result - Prepare the organization for mobility by developing an implementation plan that covers EMM from start to finish, including selecting a vendor, managing help desk changes, engaging users, and developing an actionable timeline. - Create a tailored solution for the unique needs of your organization.
Enterprise mobility management
Enterprise mobility management
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge: Traditional DRP templates are onerous and result in a lengthy, dense plan that might satisfy auditors but is not effective in a crisis. Similarly, the myth that a DRP is only for major disasters and should be risk-based leaves organizations vulnerable to more common incidents. The increased use of cloud vendors and co-lo/MSPs means you may be dependent on vendors to meet your recovery timeline objectives. Our Advice: Critical Insight DR is about service continuity — that means accounting for minor and major events. Remember Murphy’s Law. Failure happens, so focus on improving overall resiliency and recovery, rather than basing DR on risk probability analysis. Cost-effective DR and service continuity starts with identifying what is truly mission critical so you can focus resources accordingly. Not all systems require fast-failover capability. Impact and Result Create an effective DRP by following a structured process to discover current capabilities and define business requirements for continuity, not by completing a one-size-fits-all traditional DRP template. This includes: Defining appropriate objectives for maximum downtime and data loss based on business impact. Creating a DR project roadmap to close the gaps between your current DR capabilities and recovery objectives. Documenting an incident response plan based on a tabletop planning walkthrough that captures all the steps from event detection to data center recovery.
Create a right sized disaster recovery plan
Create a right sized disaster recovery plan
Info-Tech Research Group
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Your Challenge Risk is an unavoidable part of IT. And what you don't know, can hurt you. The question is, do you tackle risk head-on or leave it to chance? Get a handle on risk management quickly using Info-Tech's methodology and reduce unfortunate IT surprises. Our Advice Critical Insight 1. IT risk is business risk. Every IT risk has business implications. Create an IT risk management program that shares risk accountability with the business. 2. Risk is money. It’s impossible to make intelligent decisions about risks without knowing what they’re worth. 3. You don’t know what you don’t know. And what you don’t know can hurt you – so find out. To find hidden risks, you need a structured approach. Impact and Result Stop leaving IT risk to chance. Transform your ad hoc IT risk management processes into a formalized, ongoing program and increase risk management success by 53%. Take a proactive stance against IT threats and vulnerabilities by identifying and assessing IT’s greatest risks before they happen. Involve key stakeholders including the business senior management team to gain buy-in and to focus on IT risks that matter most to the organization. Share accountability for IT risk with business stakeholders and have them weigh-in on prioritizing investments in risk response activities.
Build a Business-Driven IT Risk Management Program
Build a Business-Driven IT Risk Management Program
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge Service desk managers with immature service desk processes struggle with: Low business satisfaction. High cost to resolve incidents and implement requests. Confused and unhappy end users. High ticket volumes and a lack of root-cause analysis to reduce recurring issues. Wasted IT time and wages resolving the same issues time and again. Ineffective demand planning. Our Advice Critical Insight Don’t be fooled by a tool that’s new. A new service desk tool alone won’t solve the problem. Service desk maturity improvements depend on putting in place the right people and processes to support the technology. Service desk improvement is an exercise in organizational change. Engage specialists across the IT organization in building the solution, and emphasize how everyone stands to benefit from the initiative. Organizations are sometimes tempted to track their work under a single ticket type. Unfortunately, the practice obscures the fact that incidents, requests, and projects require radically different amounts of time and resources, and can create the impression that IT is underperforming. Distinguish between incidents, requests, and projects, and design specific processes to support and track the performance of each activity. Remember, the value of any IT service management (ITSM) tool is a function of the processes it supports and the adoption of those processes. The ITSM tool with the best functionality is worth little if you do not build the right processes, configure the tool to support them, and work to improve tool adoption in your organization. Impact and Result Increase business satisfaction. Reduce recurring issues and ticket volumes. Reduce average incident resolution time and average request implementation time. Increase efficiency and lower operating costs. Enhance demand planning.
Standardize the Service Desk
Standardize the Service Desk
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge Companies are approving more projects than they can deliver. Most organizations say they have too many projects on the go and an unmanageable and ever-growing backlog of things to get to. While organizations want to achieve a high throughput of approved projects, many are unable or unwilling to allocate an appropriate level of IT resourcing to adequately match the number of approved initiatives. Portfolio management practices must find a way to accommodate stakeholder needs without sacrificing the portfolio to low-value initiatives that do not align with business goals. Our Advice Critical Insight Failure to align projects with strategic goals and resource capacity are the most common causes of portfolio waste across organizations. Intake, approval, and prioritization represent the best opportunities to ensure this alignment. More time spent with stakeholders during the ideation phase to help set realistic expectations for stakeholders and enhance visibility into IT’s capacity and processes is key to both project and organizational success. Too much intake red tape will lead to an underground economy of projects that escape portfolio oversight, while too little intake formality will lead to a wild west of approvals that could overwhelm the PMO. Finding the right balance of intake formality for your organization is the key to establishing a PMO that has the ability to focus on the right things. Impact and Result Eliminate off-the-grid initiatives by establishing a centralized intake process that funnels requests into a single channel. Improve the throughput of projects through the portfolio by incorporating the constraint of resource capacity to cap the amount of project approvals to that which is realistic. Silence squeaky wheels and overbearing stakeholders by establishing a progressive approval and prioritization process that gives primacy to the highest value requests.
Optimize Project Intake Approval and Prioritization
Optimize Project Intake Approval and Prioritization
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Read this Executive Brief to understand why your team should make the case to modernize your communications and collaboration infrastructure. Understand why it's time to move forward with modernizing your communications infrastructure. Discover the productivity and efficiency gains you can achieve. Redefine how you think about communications. Learn how to build a strategy that addresses both unified communications and collaboration. Understand Info-Tech's methodology and approach to modernizing communications and collaboration infrastructure.
Modernize Communications and Collaboration Infrastructure
Modernize Communications and Collaboration Infrastructure
Info-Tech Research Group
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.
Optimize the IT Operating Model
Optimize the IT Operating Model
Info-Tech Research Group
Info-Tech is the most innovative firm in the industry, and we pride ourselves on delivering better research than anyone. Become a member and unlock a range of data-driven tools and resources to drive systematic IT improvement.
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Info-Tech Membership Overview
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Your Challenge It is difficult to start the project, engage the right people, and find the necessary requirements to drive the value of an enterprise architecture operating model. It is challenging to navigate the common enterprise architecture (EA) frameworks and right-size them for your organization. The EA practice may struggle to effectively collaborate with the business when making decisions, resulting in outcomes that fail to engage stakeholders. Our Advice Critical Insight The benefits of an EA program are only realized when all components of the operating model enable the achievement of the program goals and objectives. Many times organizations overplay the governance card while ignoring the motivational aspects that can be addressed through the organization's structure or stakeholder relations. Info-Tech’s methodology ensures that all components of an EA operating model are considered to optimize the performance of the EA program. Impact and Result Place and structure your EA team to address the needs of stakeholders and deliver on the previously created strategy. Create an engagement model by understanding each relevant process of COBIT 5 and make stakeholder interaction cards to initiate conversations. Recognize the need for governance and formulate the appropriate boards while considering various policies, principles, and compliance. Develop a unique architecture development framework based on best-practice approaches with an understanding of the various architectural views to ensure the creation of a successful process. Build a communication plan and roadmap to efficiently navigate through enterprise change and involve the necessary stakeholders.
Define an EA Operating Model
Define an EA Operating Model
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge Business transformations are happening, but CIOs are often involved only when it comes time to implement change. This makes it difficult for the CIO to be perceived as an organizational leader. CIOs find it difficult to juggle operational activities, strategic initiatives, and involvement in business transformation. CIOs don’t always have the IT organization structured and mobilized in a manner that facilitates the identification of transformation opportunities, and the planning for and the implementation of organization-wide change. Our Advice Critical Insight Don’t take an ad hoc approach to transformation. You’re not in it alone. Your legacy matters Impact and Result Elevate your stature as a business leader. Empower the IT organization to act with a business mind first, and technology second. Create a high-powered IT organization that is focused on driving lasting change, improving client experiences, and encouraging collaboration across the entire enterprise. Generate opportunities for organizational growth, as manifested through revenue growth, profit growth, new market entry, new product development, etc.
Become a Transformational CIO
Become a Transformational CIO
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge Data center operating costs continue to escalate as organizations struggle with data center sprawl. While data center consolidation is an attractive option to reduce cost and sprawl, the complexity of these projects makes them extremely difficulty to execute. The status quo is also not an option, as budget constraints and the challenges with managing multiple data centers continues to increase. Our Advice Critical Insight Despite consolidation being an effective way of addressing sprawl, it is often difficult to secure buy-in and funding from the business. Many consolidation projects suffer cost overruns due to unforeseen requirements and hidden interdependencies which could have been mitigated during the planning phase. Organizations that avoid consolidation projects due to their complexity are just deferring the challenge, while costs and inefficiencies continue to increase. Impact and Result Successful data center consolidation will have an immediate impact on reducing data center sprawl. Maximize your chances of success by securing buy-in from the business. Avoid cost overruns and unforeseen requirements by engaging with the business at the start of the process. Clearly define business requirements and establish common expectations. While cost improvements often drive data center consolidation, successful projects will also improve scalability, operational efficiency, and data center redundancy.
Craft an End-to-End Data Center Consolidation Strategy to Maximize Benefits
Craft an End-to-End Data Center Consolidation Strategy to Maximize Benefits
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge Organizations are struggling to keep up with today’s evolving threat landscape. From technology sophistication and business adoption to the proliferation of hacking techniques and the expansion of hacking motivations, organizations are facing major security risks. Every organization needs some kind of information security program to protect their systems and assets. Organizations today face pressure from regulatory or legal obligations, customer requirement, and now, senior management expectations. Our Advice Critical Insight Performing an accurate assessment of your current security operations and maturity levels can be extremely hard when you don’t know what to assess or how to assess it. Alignment can be a difficult area for security to get right when it’s trying to balance both regular IT and the business. Communication is needed between the business leaders, IT leaders, and the security team for an effective security strategy to be in place. Impact and Result Info-Tech has analyzed and integrated regulatory and industry best practice frameworks, combining COBIT 5, PCI DSS, ISO 27000, NIST SP800-53, and SANS to ensure an exhaustive approach to security. Through this process, a comprehensive current state assessment, gap analysis, and initiative generation ensures that nothing is left off the table. This project will elevate the perception of the security team from being a hindrance to the organization to an enabler.
Build and Information Security Strategy
Build and Information Security Strategy
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge Even though organizations are now planning for Application Integration (AI) in their projects, very few have developed a holistic approach to their integration problems resulting in each project deploying different tactical solutions. Point-to-point and ad hoc integration solutions won’t cut it anymore: the cloud, big data, mobile, social, and new regulations require more sophisticated integration tooling. Loosely defined AI strategies result in point solutions, overlaps in technology capabilities, and increased maintenance costs; the correlation between business drivers and technical solutions is lost. Our Advice Critical Insight Involving the business in strategy development will keep them engaged and align business drivers with technical initiatives. An architectural approach to AI strategy is critical to making appropriate technology decisions and promoting consistency across AI solutions through the use of common patterns. Get control of your AI environment with an appropriate architecture, including policies and procedures, before end users start adding bring-your-own-integration (BYOI) capabilities to the office.
Build an Application Integration Strategy
Build an Application Integration Strategy
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge: As Portfolio Manager, you’re responsible for communicating portfolio results and future capacity to your steering committee. Business and IT leaders need more accurate information on project status and resource availability to decide when to start and stop projects. You need to better understand the needs of the PMO and assess the costs and benefits associated with different tools and approaches to PPM. Our Advice - Critical Insight: PPM is a practice, not a tool. Before succeeding with a commercial tool, you need to establish discipline and trust around reporting processes, which can be done using spreadsheets and other simple tools. Portfolio management is separate from project management. Think of it as the accounting department for time. Project managers report into the portfolio and are held accountable to it, but it isn’t simply an extension of project management. Our Advice - Impact and Result: Decrease the wasted portfolio budget by reducing the number of cancelled projects and other sources of efficiency. Establish the portfolio as the “one source of truth” for project reporting by increasing rigor around project status updating and reporting. Align project intake with resource capacity to improve throughput, quality of estimates, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Develop a Project Portfolio Management Strategy
Develop a Project Portfolio Management Strategy
Info-Tech Research Group
Implement an enterprise service bus revised
Implement an enterprise service bus revised
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge: Implementing a shared services model is a difficult process to undertake, and is comprised of many different components. Becoming a shared services provider is comparable to becoming a vendor and most IT groups don’t have the capabilities to easily make the transition. Most companies look to achieve cost reductions through offering a shared services model. Adopting a shared services model doesn’t always result in these intended cost reductions. Simply combining the operations of two IT organizations doesn’t necessarily result in economies of scale and cost efficiencies. Before leaping forward with your shared services implementation, determine if the project will deliver value to your organization. Our Advice - Critical Insight: Implementing a shared services model needs to be viewed as more than simply extending a current service to other sites. The organization providing services essentially turns into a vendor. As a vendor, think of the IT service you’re offering as the “product.” Remember that there are people, process, and technology capability pre-requisites to successfully becoming a shared services provider. These capabilities are not typical for the average IT shop, and need to be taken into consideration when you look to transition to a shared services model. Our Advice - Impact and Result: Before jumping into the implementation of your shared services project, assess your customer requirements and your current people, process, and technology capabilities to assess whether your organization is ready to implement a shared services model. Understand the financial implications of moving to a shared services model prior to implementing. Make sure there is a strong case for implementation.
Implement a Shared Services Model
Implement a Shared Services Model
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge: Situation Enterprise Architecture increases the organization’s ability to provide consistent services, accessible information, scalable infrastructure, and flexible technology integration on demand. It helps bridge the gap between business and IT and creates a shared enterprise vision. Complication EA programs that are run without the required EA capability level are prone to failure. EA capability optimization and EA operating model design skills are not common, as they are not everyday tasks. Our Advice: Critical Insight Using this research while assessing and optimizing your EA capability will help you: Architect the EA capability by applying four architectural perspectives: Contextual, Conceptual, Logical, and Physical. Develop an EA Operating Model starting at the contextual level, and proceeding through to the physical. Develop a sponsored mandate for EA capability. Identify and engage EA capability stakeholders. Determine organizational scope, i.e. responsibility and authority of EA. Identify business drivers for optimizing an EA capability. Analyze organizational context. Secure executive support and authorization to execute. Establish EA capability purpose and strategic direction. Write EA capability vision statement. Craft EA capability mission statement. Define EA capability goals and measures. Create EA principles. Assess current and determine target EA capability level. Document EA management process. Define EA management practices. Define interactions between EA management and other processes. Define EA capability performance and value measurement approach. Design EA organization and roles. Design EA organization structure. Define EA roles. Define required skills and proficiency levels for EA roles. Determine required EA staff capacity. Standardize EA tools and work products. Establish an EA repository. Decide on EA tools to be used. Define EA artifacts and work products. Develop an EA capability improvement plan. Consolidate and refine steps required to roll out the target EA operating model and improve EA capability. Draw an EA capability improvement roadmap.
Assess and Optimize EA Capability
Assess and Optimize EA Capability
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge: Impending audits intimidate CIOs and business executives – and for good reason. A failed audit can result in punitive fines and injunctions that disrupt continuing operations until violations are resolved. These highly visible failures are best prevented through auditor-enterprise collaboration and pragmatic audit management. Our Advice: Critical Insight Shift the audit paradigm: auditors need to be enabled, not resisted. Auditors provide a value-added service that you are paying for. Establishing an effective relationship and enabling the audit team can ensure you get value from the engagement. However, you must also be vigilant in mitigating the risk of damaging findings . Impact and Result Effective audit management means acting with kindness to establish an effective relationship and taking vigilant, calculated steps to reduce the risk of adverse findings. Clarify the audit scope and prepare documentation in advance. Start off on a positive note and enable the auditor. Manage audit logistics to minimize business disruption. Dispute unwarranted findings. Continuously improve your auditability.
Survive an Impending Audit
Survive an Impending Audit
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge: The days of offering baseline mobile capabilities such as email, enterprise storage, and collaboration are behind us. Today, businesses are looking at mobile as a means of offering improved and innovative business services and capabilities to remain competitive. The mobile landscape is continually evolving. It is hard to predict which trends will make a significant impact and difficult to prepare for them. Our Advice: Critical Insight Mobile innovation has its risks. Exposure to sensitive enterprise systems, the rise of new attack surfaces, and the relative nascence of some mobile development frameworks adds to the complexity. Tomorrow’s trends can be a complete shift from what they are today. Without a strong mobile dev foundation, apps are developed with broken functionality which results in low user satisfaction and adoption. Enable today’s mobile trends in your existing apps to remain competitive. Offer value to the business in the form of new or enhanced services. You run the risk of losing out on significant opportunities if not examined. Prepare for tomorrow’s trends with emphasis on security, performance, and API dev competencies. Misaligned dev may limit the scalability and availability of your platform for future dev. Impact and Result Learn about trending mobile technologies that will give you a competitive advantage: Select the trends that are aligned and support your overall business strategy and value creation objectives. Strengthen your mobile dev components and competencies to ease your trend enablement: Assess the integration, dependencies, and data of your mobile stack, and identify the necessary components and skills that will enable development of today’s trending mobile capabilities. Look beyond today’s trends and prepare: Stay informed with the evolution of mobile technologies and prepare your teams and stack for future mobile enhancements with tomorrow’s mobile trends.
Stay on Top of Today’s and Tomorrow’s Mobile App Trends
Stay on Top of Today’s and Tomorrow’s Mobile App Trends
Info-Tech Research Group
Your Challenge: Leadership training can be unsuccessful and expensive. More than 14 billion dollars was spent on corporate leadership development in the US in 2013, yet less than 15% of these programs were effective. The longer you wait to improve leadership skills, the longer it will take to improve your managers' reputations with their teams – and improve performance, retention, and engagement. Our Advice: Critical Insight Get results from your leadership training by holding your teams accountable through team-based development and support. Focus on quick-wins or “low-hanging fruit” to see leadership skill improvements fast, and make teams more effective and engaged today. Apply training immediately and iterate as you go. By doing so, participants are significantly more likely to use techniques and get value from the training. Impact and Result Use Info-Tech’s collaborative team-based approach to leadership development. Our proven methodology and process focus on easy-to-implement tactics that will achieve results for your leaders within two months. This blueprint focuses on improving skills in six critical areas: Leadership brand Communication Inspiring staff Meeting effectiveness Conflict resolution Strategic time management
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Fast track critical leadership skills
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Your Challenge: - With the complexity of mobility increasing in most organizations, enterprise mobility management (EMM) is becoming necessary to manage devices, as well as all aspects of mobility. - While EMM might seem simple from the outside, it has many moving parts. It covers devices, applications, data, security, policies, financial management, and help desk management. - Without a detailed implementation plan to mitigate issues such as missing components, an unprepared IT department and help desk, and low end-user adoption, IT will find it difficult to ensure a successful launch. Our Advice: Critical Insight - Mobility within organizations continues to grow more complex, and requirements for managing mobility now extend far beyond the device itself. - As BYOD continues to grow and new products are released into the market, EMM will become a necessary tool for long-term sustainability and effective use of mobility. - Without a proper implementation plan in place, organizations will find it difficult to achieve a suitable, unified solution for short and long-term sustainability of mobile management. Impact and Result - Prepare the organization for mobility by developing an implementation plan that covers EMM from start to finish, including selecting a vendor, managing help desk changes, engaging users, and developing an actionable timeline. - Create a tailored solution for the unique needs of your organization.
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Terragrunt, Terraspace, Terramate, terra... whatever. What is wrong with Terraform so people keep on creating wrappers and solutions around it? How OpenTofu will affect this dynamic? In this presentation, we will look into the fundamental driving forces behind a zoo of wrappers. Moreover, we are going to put together a wrapper ourselves so you can make an educated decision if you need one.
AWS Community Day CPH - Three problems of Terraform
AWS Community Day CPH - Three problems of Terraform
Andrey Devyatkin
Discover the advantages of hiring UI/UX design services! Our blog explores how professional design can enhance user experiences, boost brand credibility, and increase customer engagement. Learn about the latest design trends and strategies that can help your business stand out in the digital landscape. Elevate your online presence with Pixlogix's expert UI/UX design services.
Advantages of Hiring UIUX Design Service Providers for Your Business
Advantages of Hiring UIUX Design Service Providers for Your Business
Pixlogix Infotech
Digital Global Overview Report 2024 Slides presentation for Event presented in 2024 after compilation of data around last year.
[2024]Digital Global Overview Report 2024 Meltwater.pdf
[2024]Digital Global Overview Report 2024 Meltwater.pdf
hans926745
With real-time traffic, hazard alerts, and voice instructions, among others, launching an intuitive taxi app in Brazil is your golden ticket to entrepreneurial success. For more info visit our website : https://www.v3cube.com/uber-clone-portuguese-brazil/
Developing An App To Navigate The Roads of Brazil
Developing An App To Navigate The Roads of Brazil
V3cube
Created by Mozilla Research in 2012 and now part of Linux Foundation Europe, the Servo project is an experimental rendering engine written in Rust. It combines memory safety and concurrency to create an independent, modular, and embeddable rendering engine that adheres to web standards. Stewardship of Servo moved from Mozilla Research to the Linux Foundation in 2020, where its mission remains unchanged. After some slow years, in 2023 there has been renewed activity on the project, with a roadmap now focused on improving the engine’s CSS 2 conformance, exploring Android support, and making Servo a practical embeddable rendering engine. In this presentation, Rakhi Sharma reviews the status of the project, our recent developments in 2023, our collaboration with Tauri to make Servo an easy-to-use embeddable rendering engine, and our plans for the future to make Servo an alternative web rendering engine for the embedded devices industry. (c) Embedded Open Source Summit 2024 April 16-18, 2024 Seattle, Washington (US) https://events.linuxfoundation.org/embedded-open-source-summit/ https://ossna2024.sched.com/event/1aBNF/a-year-of-servo-reboot-where-are-we-now-rakhi-sharma-igalia
A Year of the Servo Reboot: Where Are We Now?
A Year of the Servo Reboot: Where Are We Now?
Igalia
This project focuses on implementing real-time object detection using Raspberry Pi and OpenCV. Real-time object detection is a critical aspect of computer vision applications, allowing systems to identify and locate objects within a live video stream instantly.
Real Time Object Detection Using Open CV
Real Time Object Detection Using Open CV
Khem
Partners Life - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
Partners Life - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
Partners Life - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
The Digital Insurer
Axa Assurance Maroc - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
Axa Assurance Maroc - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
Axa Assurance Maroc - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
The Digital Insurer
Abhishek Deb(1), Mr Abdul Kalam(2) M. Des (UX) , School of Design, DIT University , Dehradun. This paper explores the future potential of AI-enabled smartphone processors, aiming to investigate the advancements, capabilities, and implications of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into smartphone technology. The research study goals consist of evaluating the development of AI in mobile phone processors, analyzing the existing state as well as abilities of AI-enabled cpus determining future patterns as well as chances together with reviewing obstacles as well as factors to consider for more growth.
Exploring the Future Potential of AI-Enabled Smartphone Processors
Exploring the Future Potential of AI-Enabled Smartphone Processors
debabhi2
My presentation at the Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) NSA GenCyber Cyber Security Day event that is intended to foster an interest in the cyber security field amongst college students.
GenCyber Cyber Security Day Presentation
GenCyber Cyber Security Day Presentation
Michael W. Hawkins
Finology Group – Insurtech Innovation Award 2024
Finology Group – Insurtech Innovation Award 2024
Finology Group – Insurtech Innovation Award 2024
The Digital Insurer
Presentation on the progress in the Domino Container community project as delivered at the Engage 2024 conference
2024: Domino Containers - The Next Step. News from the Domino Container commu...
2024: Domino Containers - The Next Step. News from the Domino Container commu...
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The 7 Things I Know About Cyber Security After 25 Years | April 2024
presentation ICT roal in 21st century education
presentation ICT roal in 21st century education
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Apidays New York 2024 - The value of a flexible API Management solution for O...
Tata AIG General Insurance Company - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
Tata AIG General Insurance Company - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
Automating Google Workspace (GWS) & more with Apps Script
Automating Google Workspace (GWS) & more with Apps Script
🐬 The future of MySQL is Postgres 🐘
🐬 The future of MySQL is Postgres 🐘
Strategies for Unlocking Knowledge Management in Microsoft 365 in the Copilot...
Strategies for Unlocking Knowledge Management in Microsoft 365 in the Copilot...
ProductAnonymous-April2024-WinProductDiscovery-MelissaKlemke
ProductAnonymous-April2024-WinProductDiscovery-MelissaKlemke
AWS Community Day CPH - Three problems of Terraform
AWS Community Day CPH - Three problems of Terraform
Advantages of Hiring UIUX Design Service Providers for Your Business
Advantages of Hiring UIUX Design Service Providers for Your Business
[2024]Digital Global Overview Report 2024 Meltwater.pdf
[2024]Digital Global Overview Report 2024 Meltwater.pdf
Developing An App To Navigate The Roads of Brazil
Developing An App To Navigate The Roads of Brazil
A Year of the Servo Reboot: Where Are We Now?
A Year of the Servo Reboot: Where Are We Now?
Real Time Object Detection Using Open CV
Real Time Object Detection Using Open CV
Partners Life - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
Partners Life - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
Axa Assurance Maroc - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
Axa Assurance Maroc - Insurer Innovation Award 2024
Exploring the Future Potential of AI-Enabled Smartphone Processors
Exploring the Future Potential of AI-Enabled Smartphone Processors
GenCyber Cyber Security Day Presentation
GenCyber Cyber Security Day Presentation
Finology Group – Insurtech Innovation Award 2024
Finology Group – Insurtech Innovation Award 2024
2024: Domino Containers - The Next Step. News from the Domino Container commu...
2024: Domino Containers - The Next Step. News from the Domino Container commu...
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