Build and Deliver an Optimized IT Update Presentation

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.

Build and Deliver an Optimized IT Update Presentation Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our Executive Brief to find out how an optimized IT update presentation is your opportunity to drive business value.Review Info-Tech’s methodology and understand how we can support you in completing this project.

Build and Deliver an Optimized IT Update Presentation – Executive Brief

1. Scope and goals

Confirm the “why” of the IT update presentation by determining its scope and goals.

2. Assess and build

Confirm the “what” of the presentation by focusing on business requirements, metrics, presentation creation, and stakeholder validation.

3. Deliver and inspire

Confirm the “how” of the presentation by focusing on engaging your audience, getting what you need, and creating a feedback cycle.

Member Testimonials

After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.

Client

Experience

Impact

$ Saved

Days Saved

Testimonial

County of Fresno, CA

Guided Implementation

10/10

$81,600

I was all good Information that I can use on my next presentation.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Guided Implementation

8/10

N/A

About Info-Tech

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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.

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Author

John Burwash

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