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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Understand the capabilities and focus areas required to meet your industry’s needs and enable value creation.
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Top Industry Trends
Identify resource, process, and environmental trends impacting your industry. Implement strategies to mitigate specific risks and take advantage of all relevant opportunities.
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Industry Benchmarking
Reveal the true state of your IT services, processes, spend, and staffing levels to align your priorities and resources. Benefit from peer data to get a reference point for how well you stack up.
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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Strategy Alignment
Utilities Industry Business Reference Architecture
- Demonstrate the value of IT’s role in supporting your utility business capabilities while highlighting the importance of proper alignment between organizational and IT strategies.
- Apply Level 2 business reference architecture techniques such as strategy maps, value streams, and capability maps to design usable and accurate blueprints of your utility operations.
- Assess your initiatives and priorities to determine if you are investing in the right capabilities. Conduct capability assessments to identify opportunities and to prioritize projects.
Strategy Alignment
Build a Utilities Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Strategy Alignment
Define Your Cloud Vision for the Utilities Industry
- Evaluate workloads’ suitability for the cloud using Info-Tech’s methodology to select the optimal migration (or non-migration) path based on the value of cloud characteristics.
- Codify risks tied to workloads’ cloud suitability and plan mitigations.
- Build a roadmap of initiatives for actions by workload and risk mitigation.
- Define a cloud vision to share with stakeholders.
Strategy Alignment
Digital Use Case Library: Electric Utilities
Pull inspiration from a curated collection of best-in-class digital use cases to drive the initiative ideation process.
- While implementation details will differ, overall concepts can often be helpful in designing transformation roadmaps.
- Our analysis offers additional guidance on ROI guidelines, primary sources of value, and more.
Pulling best practices from anonymized use cases increases the odds of successful value capture.
Strategy Alignment
Utilities IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook
- With input from our research and analysts and your peers, identify new or updated initiatives for your IT strategy.
- Working with our team, update your IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook.
Strategy Alignment
Utilities Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template
- Once you’ve completed the Utilities IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook, it’s time to pull it all together and share with your organization’s leadership team.
- Use the Utilities Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template to highlight the key findings from the business-aligned analysis you’ve done.
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Top Industry Trends
Top Trends
Improve Your Field Digital Solution Performance
Info-Tech’s research provides practical guidance to help utilities improve the effectiveness of their field digital transformation efforts:
- Identify the leading field digital opportunities for your organization.
- Define measures to determine the performance of your field digital solutions and identify gaps to be addressed.
- Provide a holistic framework to improve the successful rate of field deployment.
- Leverage best practices based on lessons learned from practitioners.
Top Trends
The Future of Utilities Trends Report
Info-Tech’s trends report on the future of utilities investigates strategic foresights and highlights the relevant trends for business and IT leaders in utilities. Our goal is to guide you through the energy transition journey to the future we reimagine together.
This report aims to:
- Perform a broader scan to highlight the proven and relevant trends to utilities.
- Help organizations identify the trends to follow depending on their maturity.
- Highlight the impact of the trends to business and IT leaders.
- Guide organizations for required changes driven by the regulators and desired by customers.
Top Trends
Water Utilities Trends Report
Info-Tech’s Water Utilities Trends Report investigates strategic foresights and identifies the relevant trends for water utilities. Our aim is to guide you through this transition and help create a sustainable future we can all imagine together.
- Perform a broader scan to highlight the demonstrated and relevant trends to water utilities.
- Demonstrate how industry leaders capitalize water utilities tech trends.
- Highlight the opportunities and risks associated with these trends.
- Provide practical recommendations on people, process, and technology.
Top Trends
Industrial Control System Modernization: Unlock the Value of Automation in Utilities
- Perform a cost-benefit analysis to support ICS modernization technologies and applications.
- Optimize your plan from lessons learned prior to embarking on an ICS modernization roadmap and tactical implementation.
- Leverage the readiness checklist for IT/OT/business leaders to guide organizations about required changes in people, process, and technology.
Top Trends
Cybersecurity Report for Utilities
Info-Tech’s utilities cybersecurity report provides an overview of the cybersecurity landscape that leaders are facing today. It offers key insights and practical recommendations based on industry best practices globally. This report:
- Provides an overview of the utility specific cybersecurity landscape.
- Identifies the impact on People, Process, and Technology as a result of implementing cybersecurity programs.
- Demonstrates how utilities are enhancing their cybersecurity capabilities.
- Proposes recommendations based on best practices from the industry.
Top Trends
Data Analytics Use Cases for Utilities
Info-Tech’s trends deep-dive report on data analytics use case for utilities can fast track the data strategy development by:
- Accelerating your business case development by providing a curated data analytics use case repository.
- Identifying the right data problems to solve which deliver the highest value by leveraging a rapid and effective prioritization. framework.
- Developing an iterative and value proven roadmap based on your organizational scorecard.
Top Trends
Grid Modernization – Optimize Opportunities and Minimize Risks
Info-Tech’s deep-dive trends report Grid Modernization: Optimize Opportunities and Minimize Risks investigates strategic foresights and highlights the impact of grid modernization programs on people, process, and technology for IT/OT leaders in electric utilities. Our goal is to guide you through the transformation journey by providing you practical insights.
- Demonstrate a sample of cost-benefit analysis metrics to support Smart Grid technologies and applications.
- Provide insights of pitfalls to avoid prior to embarking on a grid modernization roadmap and tactful implementation plans.
- Identify the readiness checklist for IT/OT leaders to guide organizations in required changes to people, process, and technology.
Top Trends
Utilities IT/OT Convergence Report
- With the advent of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), many operational technology (OT) systems have adopted more standardized ways of connecting controls systems and related data.
- Yet IT and OT have typically existed in their own silos. This situation is rapidly coming to an end with the IT/OT convergence.
- This trend analysis will provide you with key insights to help your IT team to effectively meet these challenges and opportunities head on.
Top Trends
Utilities Data Analytics Report
- Increased deployment of remote devices and edge computing will drive exponential growth in data generation.
- Using data analytics to drive productivity gains and reduce operating cost has become central to Utilities’ business strategy.
- This trend analysis will provide you with key insights to assist your IT team to effectively meet these challenges and opportunities head on.
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Industry Benchmarking
Peer Benchmarking
Benchmarking Report: A Cross-Industry Comparison of IT Stakeholder Satisfaction
- Every industry has unique characteristics that can hamper progress or facilitate success in satisfying IT stakeholders. Reimagine your strategy by shifting the definition of who your peers really are.
- Discover which industries achieve high stakeholder satisfaction across 13 core IT services.
- Learn the characteristics that different industries have that can help or hinder IT success.
- Understand what your industry has in common with others that you can leverage to improve stakeholder satisfaction and overcome your own institutional barriers.
Peer Benchmarking
Utilities IT Stakeholder Satisfaction Benchmarking Report
- IT leadership needs to understand where their stakeholders are unsatisfied with the quality of service they’re receiving from IT.
- Understand important common focus areas to address and gain insights into how your team aligns to other Utilities IT teams.
Peer Benchmarking
Utilities IT Staffing Benchmarking Report
- Many IT departments are already running lean, struggling to keep pace with never-ending demands from the business. Utilities IT staffing is stretched thin.
- By taking the IT Staffing Diagnostic and participating in our unique IT Spend Benchmarking, you will gain critical information to understand how to position your IT team to be more strategic.
Peer Benchmarking
Utilities IT Management & Governance Benchmarking Report
- Understanding your IT team’s perception of what’s important and how well they’re doing is central to identifying strengths, weaknesses, and potential misalignments with business priorities and expectations.
- Learn about how IT departments in your industry assess the importance and effectiveness of 45 IT processes to gauge your own alignment and identify select processes for targeted improvement.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
Core Industry Technologies
Utilities Industrial Internet of Things Report
- Ensuring uninterrupted power supply is of the upmost importance. Having end-to-end oversight is critical. The Internet of Things helps to provide that visibility and oversight.
- Learn about what the Industrial Internet of Things is, the state of the market, key features, and leading vendors to see how this technology can transform your IT strategy and the ability to deliver it.
Core Industry Technologies
Utilities Cloud Access Security Broker Report
- Utilities continue to leverage cloud services for supporting remote devices and consolidating IT and Operational Technology.
- Having cloud-based services does not automatically resolve the security concerns.
- Learn about what a cloud access security broker (CASB) is, the state of the market, key features, and leading vendors to see how this technology can transform your IT strategy and your ability to successfully deliver it.
Core Industry Technologies
Utilities Business Intelligence Report
- Using data analytics to drive productivity gains and reduce operating cost has become central to a Utilities’ business strategy.
- Gaining insight from this data requires significant effort.
- Learn about what business intelligence is, the state of the market, key features, and leading vendors to see how this technology can transform your IT strategy and the ability to deliver it.
Latest Utilities Notes
Short, tailored research notes aimed at providing you with timely insights, relevant to your industry. Hot off the press, these notes will be published regularly and pair great with your morning coffee.
Problematic IT Processes for Utilities: Business Intelligence & Reporting, Organizational Change Management, and Data Quality
May 13, 2019
Info-Tech’s IT Management & Governance Diagnostic provides industry-level insights on the challenges of IT departments. We use a concept known as Service Gap to compare the rated importance of a particular IT process with its effectiveness. Use this data to review the existing IT strategy. Ensure that it includes initiatives that adequately address these shortcomings.
Power Your Security Program With Metrics That Matter
March 11, 2019
Objective and quantifiable metrics help eliminate unknowns and reduce the tendency to rely on emotion, intuition, and politics when making decisions that affect the organization. Leveraging verifiable information for data-driven decisions can be highly effective to efficiently securing critical infrastructure in the utilities industry.
Hit The Ground(water) Learning, Not Running
January 4, 2019
Hydrologists, grappling with bouts of drought or flooding in some major urban centers, and dilapidated municipal infrastructure in others, are mitigating water supply risk with data-driven models.
Problematic IT Processes for Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution – Data Quality, Service Catalog, and Business Intelligence
November 21, 2018
Info-Tech’s IT Management & Governance Diagnostic provides industry-level insights on the challenges of IT departments. We use a concept known as “service gap” to compare the rated importance of a particular IT process with its effectiveness. Use this data to review the existing IT strategy. Ensure that it includes initiatives that adequately address these shortcomings.
Prepare Your Transformers for 5G Transformation
July 20, 2018
The emergence of 5G will have a transformative impact on entire industries, including the energy sector. It is anticipated to result in improved efficiencies and cost saving through the use of smart grids, smart meters, and remote energy monitoring and management.
Benchmarking Reports
Industry-specific benchmarking reports built on years of in-depth industry data, collected using our innovative diagnostic programs. We aggregate the data across hundreds of IT departments in your industry to give you tailored vertical insights, all packaged in professional boardroom-ready reports.
Utilities Reference Architecture
Reference architectures built on years of industry expertise, honed by analysts working with real IT professionals in your industry. Leverage industry best practices so you don’t waste time and money reinventing the wheel.