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.
Member Testimonials
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Client
Experience
Impact
$ Saved
Days Saved
County of Fresno
Guided Implementation
10/10
$76,401
20
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Guided Implementation
8/10
N/A
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Workshop: Build and Deliver an Optimized IT Update Presentation
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Scope, Goals, and Requirements
The Purpose
- Determine the IT update’s scope and goals and identify stakeholder requirements
Key Benefits Achieved
- IT update scope and goals
- Business stakeholder goals and requirements
Activities
Outputs
Determine/validate the IT update scope
- Documented IT update scope
Determine/validate the IT update goals
- Documented IT update goals
Business context analysis
- Validated business context
Determine stakeholder needs and expectations
- Stakeholder requirements analysis
Confirm business goals and requirements
- Confirmed business goals and requirements
Module 2: Validate Metrics With Business Needs
The Purpose
- Analyze metrics and content and validate against business needs
Key Benefits Achieved
- Selection of key metrics
- Metrics and content validated to business needs
Activities
Outputs
Analyze current IT metrics
- Identification of key metrics
Review industry best-practice metrics
- Finalization of key metrics
Align metrics and content to business stakeholder needs
- Metrics and content validated to business stakeholder needs
Module 3: Create an optimized IT update
The Purpose
- Create an IT update presentation that is optimized to business needs
Key Benefits Achieved
- Optimized IT update presentation
Activities
Outputs
Understand the audience and how to best engage them
- Clarity on update audience
Determine how to present the pertinent data
- Draft IT update presentation
IT update review with key business stakeholders
- Business stakeholder feedback
Final edits and review of IT update presentation
- Finalized IT update presentation
Pre-presentation checklist
- Confirmation on IT update presentation readiness
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.
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A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
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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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