Build and Deliver an Optimized IT Update Presentation
Show IT’s value and relevance by dropping the technical jargon and speaking to the business in their terms.
- IT update presentation success comes with understanding the business and the needs of your stakeholders. It often takes time and effort to get it right.
- Many IT updates are too technically focused and do not engage nor demonstrate value in the eyes of the business.
- This is not the time to boast about technical metrics that lack relevance.
- Too often IT updates are prepared without the necessary pre-discussions required to validate content and hone priorities.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- CIOs need to take charge of the IT value proposition, increasing the impact and strategic role of IT.
- Use your IT update to focus decisions, improve relationships, find new sources of value, and drive credibility.
- Evolve the strategic partnership with your business using key metrics to help guide the conversation.
Impact and Result
- Build and deliver an IT update that focuses on what is most important.
- Achieve the buy-in you require while driving business value.
- Gain clarity on your scope, goals, and outcomes.
- Validate IT’s role as a strategic business partner.
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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Get the help you need in this 3-phase advisory process. You'll receive 6 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
Guided Implementation 1: Scope and goals
- Call 1: Drive clarity around scope and goals – time, audience, content, and outcomes.
Guided Implementation 2: Assess and build
- Call 1: Identify the business context and requirements data gathering.
- Call 2: Analyze metrics and validate against business needs and requirements.
- Call 3: Review methods to optimize presentation deliverables.
- Call 4: Review pre-delivery preparation.
Guided Implementation 3: Deliver and inspire
- Call 1: Review presentation outcomes and open issues.
Contributors
- Bob Osmond, Director of the Information Technology Division, Virginia Department of Transportation
- Kristen Duus, CIO, Office of Information Services at the Oregon Department of Human Services and Oregon Health Authority
- Dr. Edward Aractingi, CIO, Marshall University
- Steve Reinhardt, Director of Information Systems, University Technology, [U]Tech Office of Research Administration, Case Western Reserve University
- Shawn Dunn, Director of Information Technology, MicroPort Orthopedics
- Gavin Lyons, Director, Information Services, Translational Research In Oncology
- David Schwindt, Manager, IM/IT, Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
- Baird Miller, CIO, Washington State Department of Ecology
- Several anonymous contributors
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