Planning IT Strategy - Research Notes

The Goal of IT/Business Alignment: Why so Elusive?

Has the ideal of IT/business alignment become the holy grail of IT leaders? The promise of IT/business alignment is to focus investment and activities, increase the value...

Data Center Requirements Planning: Seek Expertise to Ensure Success

IT shops building or refreshing the data center should seek external expertise or face incurring additional costs due to miscalculated power, cooling, and UPS...

New Leaders: Send a Message with an Executive IT Committee

Executive IT committees can take a lot of pressure off new or existing IT leaders by forcing business leaders to set IT investment priorities. Learn the lessons offered...

IT Steering Committee Meeting Agenda

A formal agenda prepared and distributed ahead of each meeting will help focus the efforts of the IT steering committee and keep all parties on track. Use this template...

Understand IRR and NPV

The business side of the organization generally uses one of two financial metrics to determine the viability and, therefore, the attractiveness of an investment: Net...

Crucial IT Process Areas and the Pit of Despair: Lessons from Leaders and Laggards

Leading IT organizations put more emphasis on IT processes such as asset management, cost optimization, and business value. But there’s a surprise. They put less emphasis...

Build Your Infrastructure Roadmap – Executive Brief

Read this Executive Brief to understand why Infrastructure organizations need to take proactive control in interfacing with the business and managing their work.

Evaluate Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Your Infrastructure Roadmap

The future is cloud(like) and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a big step in that direction. HCI extends server virtulization into storage and networking spheres;...

Prepare for Five SMB Tech Trends in 2017

Develop an IT strategy with industry trends in mind. Use this research to evaluate if the business is ready to adopt emerging technologies in 2017. Leverage Info-Tech’s...

Tie Wi-Fi Upgrades to Business Goals for Education

Faculty, staff, and students want better wireless internet. They don’t care how Wi-Fi is improved, just that it is. Upgrade wireless coverage, speed, and uptime in order...
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