Blueprints

Establish a Service-Based Costing Model

Service-based costing brings clarity to IT expenditures and visibility to IT consumption. However, overcoming the challenges of service-based costing requires a logical...
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Implement and Optimize Application Integration Governance

Enterprises often see the value of, or need to, integrate their applications through service-oriented architecture or some other framework, but often don't consider the...

Find Information in the Enterprise

The explosion of information in today's organizations is rapidly decreasing employees' ability to find specific content. Build a framework to deal with the mounting...

Establish an Effective IT Steering Committee

This Info-Tech blueprint will walk you through the process of structuring an IT steering committee with the appropriate membership and responsibilities, defining your IT...
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Select and Implement a Social Media Management Platform

SMMPs reduce complexity and increase the results of enterprise social media initiatives. SMMPs integrate with a variety of different social media services, including...
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Embrace Information Lifecycle Management in Your ECM Program

Not all information assets are created equal; you need a structured approach to handling your organization’s information assets from creation to destruction that...
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Build a Data Center

42% of IT leaders have been tasked with completing a data center build-out in 2010. Often, the organization lacks previous experience building a data center.

Build an ERP Strategy and Roadmap

Organizations often do not have an ERP strategy and roadmap in place. The focus is often on selection and implementation phases of ERP, but without a foundation and...
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Take Control of Infrastructure and Operations Metrics

Organizations often measure business operations and spending, but these measurements may not tackle their main challenges. A meaningful, measurable strategy helps...

Define Your Cloud Vision

This blueprint reviews the characteristics, pros, and cons of cloud services, helping readers understand when to employ software-, platform-, and...
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